Time To Feel Old: The Black Keys' Seminal 'El Camino' Is Getting A Tenth Anniversary Re-Release

5 November 2021 | 2:06 pm | Staff Writer

'Lonely Boy' was a DECADE ago?!

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Ohio garage rock duo The Black Keys have announced a special super deluxe edition re-release of their massive 2011 album, El Camino.

The release - which featured tracks like Gold On The Ceiling and the megahit Lonely Boy - was co-produced by legendary producer Dangermouse and nabbed the band double platinum status in the US, triple in Australia and New Zealand, and a whopping 4x platinum in Canada.

The new release features a full remaster of the original album, plus three seperate live recordings from Portland as well as the BBC Live and Electro Vox sessions.

"The story of the Black Keys' seventh album, named after an automobile, long out of fashion and featured nowhere in the artwork, begins on a sidewalk in the middle of a blizzard," legendary Rolling Stone editor David Fricke writes in a new liner note for the release.

"On the afternoon of January 9, 2011, singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney stood on the pavement outside the Bowery Hotel in New York City, saw the weather turning vicious, looked at each other and came to the same decision: They had to get off the road."

The super deluxe El Camino reissue is available for purchase now.

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