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After Years Apart, The Black Keys Get Back To Basics

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney speak with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about stripping down their sound and process on their first album in five years, Let's Rock.
<em>Let's Rock</em>, The Black Keys' first album in five years, returns to the stripped-down, chugging blues-rock of the duo's early days.

Between their formation in 2001 and last album in 2014, guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney released eight LPs as and became household names with songs like "Tighten Up" and "Fever." When the duo took a break from recording and touring after years and years on

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