Delta Kream is The Black Keys' tenth studio album that honors the music of Mississippi hill country blues, R. L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and others who have influenced the band.
Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney recorded Delta Kream at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville; they were joined by musicians Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton, long-time members of the bands of several blues legends, including Burnside and Kimbrough themselves.
The album takes its name from William Eggleston’s iconic Mississippi photograph that’s on its cover.
Any chance we get to turn people on hill country blues, we want to do that, because it means that much to us. We love this music and definitely feel a close connection to it.
Some of the best roots music are those spontaneous records. You can just feel this kind of nervous energy, but it was just fun.