The Big Come Up
| The Black Keys
The Big Come Up
The Big Come Up is the debut studio album by the American rock duo The Black Keys, released in May 14, 2002 on Alive Records. The blues-rock duo includes singer and guitarist, Dan Auerbach, and drummer, Patrick Carney. The album was created in Akron, Ohio, also known as the Rubber City. As the two began to grow up, they realized that rubber companies, such as Goodyear, were a dying industry.They knew they were not guaranteed an automatic job by achieving a college degree, so the two dropped out of college to pursue their musical career. They began producing "The Big Come Up" in their basement. Carney and Auerbach recorded the album in Carney's basement, using two microphones bought off of eBay. They recorded their album on an 8-track tape recorder because there was no longer a need for a needle, it did not break or shatter, and it could be played in the car.- Wikipedia
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Sputnik Music
Excellently done blues rock, with the twist of no bass player. No bad songs, nothing to dislike.
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Consequence of Sound
The humble beginning of two guys trying to rock way before Aurbach had all that hair.
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All Music
And it's way fresher than the standard bar band blues-rockers with slicker execution and more reverence for blues clichés.
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Diffuser
It’s raw, it’s primitive, it’s low-fi and it’s part of the early-‘00s indie-rock landscape that was grasping for some relevance in a post-millennium age run by machines.
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Paste Magazine
The Black Keys would make better albums than this one, but you can never quite recapture the “holy shit” of hearing The Big Come Up for the first time.
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Elusive Disc
First album by this two-piece powerhouse from Akron, Ohio, could be the best blues album in years.
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Uncut
Drew on the raw power of the blues and the insouciant grooves of soul and hip-hop.
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Music Direct
A cool and raunchy electric blues record, the vigor and imagination displayed here is heads and tails fresher than any.
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Vancouver Sun
A revelation upon its release, opening the door on a set of influences including Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside and Lennon/McCartney.
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The Guardian
His raw, emotional music reignites the blues tradition as a living, breathing thing.
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Rock Times
The album is a prime example of how bluesy rock can sound today as it did then. A message to all people who think that you need state-of-the-art equipment to produce a strong album.
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Turntable Kitchen
Auerbach has a distinctive whiskey-weathered blues-man crow that that flows neatly alongside roaring guitar riffs and Carney’s jazzy, soulful drumming.
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Chronicles of Times
The Black Keys do not have to worry about this: they ooze with soul. They have feeling. They make you think, and move, and wish, and go.
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Ultimate Guitar
Ahh, the sound is what really blows me away.
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