The Black Keys Lighten Up On New Single ‘The Night Before’
Grammy-winning rock duo The Black Keys —comprising Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney— will kick off the first leg of the “No Rain, No Flowers Tour” with the release of a new song, the loose and groovy The Night Before out via Easy Eye Sound/Warner Records.
The pair wrote the tune with Grammy award winning songwriter Daniel Tashian. The resulting track is airy and elastic, with a sticky melody made all the more infectious by Auerbach’s soulful delivery and Carney’s crisp and funky beat.
“It’s so groove-based,” Auerbach says. “‘The Night Before’ started with a chord progression that Daniel and I came up with and the rest just fell out. It was really collaborative and all came together in about 30 minutes.”
“We’ve never really worked with songwriters like that in Nashville,” Carney adds. “It’s crazy because Daniel was one of the first people I met when I moved to town over a decade ago. But we pushed ourselves to bring in some new co-writers, and we really tapped into something cool with Daniel. We’re finishing up the album now and plan to release more tracks leading into the tour.”
