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Thickfreakness 
Studio album by The Black Keys Released April 8, 2003 Recorded December 2002 Genre Blues-rock, garage rock Length 39:01 Label Fat Possum Producer Patrick Carney The Black Keys chronology The Six Parts Seven/The Black Keys EP
(2003)Thickfreakness
(2003)The Moan
(2004)Singles from Thickfreakness - "Set You Free"
Released: 2002 - "Hard Row"
Released: 2003 - "Have Love Will Travel"
Released: 2003
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Pitchfork Media (7.7/10)[2] Rolling Stone 
[3]Thickfreakness is the second album by American blues-rock duo The Black Keys, released in 2003. It is their debut release for the Fat Possum record label.
Contents
Background
The band's debut album The Big Come Up had been tremendously successful for an independent rock band and Thickfreakness further increased their profile. It continues The Black Keys' tradition of raw, heavy blues-influenced garage rock. Thickfreakness is known in Japan as Inazuma Rockin' Blues, with "inazuma" meaning "flash of lightning".
Songs such as "Set You Free" won the pair some mainstream success as being featured in the soundtrack of the 2003 film School of Rock. Heavy comparisons to another American blues-influenced garage rock duo, The White Stripes, were often made in the music media.
Recording
Most of the album was recorded in 14 hours in Patrick Carney's basement on an early 1980s Tascam 388 8-track recorder.[4] The liner notes claim this is Carney's "patented recording technique called 'medium fidelity'". The result is an older sounding sound.[5] The song "Midnight in Her Eyes" is one of the few Black Keys songs that used a bass guitar; Dan Auerbach dubbed a bassline by playing a Guild SG-style bass through a guitar amp into the song. Part of "Set You Free" was recorded by Jeff Saltzman.
The album included two covers: "Have Love, Will Travel" by Richard Berry and "Everywhere I Go" by north Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney except where noted.
No. Title Length 1. "Thickfreakness" 3:48 2. "Hard Row" (lyrics by Dan and Chuck Auerbach) 3:15 3. "Set You Free" 2:46 4. "Midnight in Her Eyes" 4:02 5. "Have Love Will Travel" (Richard Berry) 3:04 6. "Hurt Like Mine" 3:27 7. "Everywhere I Go" (Junior Kimbrough) 5:40 8. "No Trust" 3:37 9. "If You See Me" 2:52 10. "Hold Me in Your Arms" 3:19 11. "I Cry Alone" 2:47 Japanese bonus track No. Title Length 12. "Evil" 2:27 Personnel
- Dan Auerbach - guitar, vocals, bass on track 4
- Patrick Carney - drum kit, production
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review
- ^ Rolling Stone review
- ^ Inman, Davis (2010-07-21). "On record: The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach". American Songwriter. http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/07/on-record-dan-auerbach/. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
- ^ Tranter, Rhys (2003-06-17). "The Black Keys - Thickfreakness". Collective. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1082125. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
The Black Keys Studio albums The Big Come Up (2002) · Thickfreakness (2003) · Rubber Factory (2004) · Magic Potion (2006) · Attack & Release (2008) · Brothers (2010) · El Camino (2011)EPs The Six Parts Seven/The Black Keys EP · Leavin' Trunk/She Said, She Said · The Moan · Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior KimbroughCollaborative albums BlakrocSingles "Leavin' Trunk" · "She Said, She Said" · "Set You Free" · "Hard Row" · "Have Love Will Travel" · "10 A.M. Automatic" · "Till I Get My Way" · "Girl is On My Mind" · "Your Touch" · "You're the One" · "Just Got To Be" · "Strange Times" · "I Got Mine" · "Same Old Thing" · "Tighten Up" · "Howlin' for You" · "Lonely Boy"Other releases Related Categories:- The Black Keys albums
- 2003 albums
- "Set You Free"
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