Epic Sounds from the Big Country with a pocketful of soul and sanctified song. Kentucky quintet, My Morning Jacket are an experimental country rock outfit who play equal parts Southern Blues, Americana and dreamy psychedelica, a journey of reverb-drenched melodies, velvet melancholy lyrics and instrumentation that combines old country swagger with classic pop sentimentality.
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The Black Keys are an alternative rock duo from that Mecca of weirdness, Akron Ohio. Dan Auerbach (guitar/vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums) mix nearby Detroit punk rock with not-as-near North Mississippi juke-joint rollickingness to produce startlingly raw slabs of music that challenge the ears and pummel the psyche.
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