The Black Keys will perform tonight on Late Night with Conan O’Brien - show begins @ 12:37 AM EST! Check your local NBC affiliate for times in your area.
The Black Keys are one of my favorite bands and definately puton one of the best live shows I have seen in a long time. If this blog had existed in 2005 it certainly would have been the show of the year.
There is another reason for posting about the Conan appearance….Have you heard about the new movie coming out called Black Snake Moan? Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci? You can watch the trailer here. That’s none other than the Black Keys in the trailer! They were also played coming out of commercial break in the Ohio State/Florida game the other night.
Those 2 kids are blowing up!
The Black Keys - When the Lights Go Out (as featured on the Black Snake Moan OST)
One other thing. If you like the tunes you heard in the trailer you can go to the movies main site and listen to the entire soundtrack. It even features Samuel L. Jackson singing. Good or Bad? you decide. Just click on the “Launch Soundtrack Music Player” link in the upper right and a pop-up with selectable songs will come up. Fucking nice soundtrack too!
edit: Track 14 - Samuel L. Jackson - Stack-O-Lee is a muthafuckin’ must listen!
edit #2: Okay, I could not resist so I ripped it from the flash stream….enjoy this: Samuel L. Jackson - Stack-O-Lee (Language not work safe)
If this shit does not interest you…well then, I dunno.
from Col.JD of the Legendary ShackShakers
“We seek out various characters and stories and musical moments that go to reinforce the notion of the South as a creative place and a place of intelligence and eccentricities, yes, but underpinning all of that is this profound sense of self and clarity of identity, confidence, and faith, and lots of great, virtuous things that never gets made mentioned whenever you see a documentary or movie about it. It seems like it’s always like Jerry Springer dysfunction, mixed in with a little Hee-Haw cornpone humor and that’s about all you get. I thought we would try to expand upon more like the characters, more along the lines of Flannery O’Connor and Faulkner’s characters and intelligent, profound, intelligent characters that redeem that area. There’s a lot of dysfunction and confusion and ignorance all over the world, you know the South does not corner the market on it. If anything, it produces more art and more great music than any other area that I can think of”
Who all performs and appears in the movie?
We’ve got Scott Biram, Slim Cessna, Shack Shakers, lots of old-timers in these kind of juke joints and honky tonks that we traveled to, and folks that you wouldn’t know, but they still channel that same timeless vibe that a lot of hipsters struggle to harness. It’s a movie not about celebrity, or hipness, it’s about authenticity and the truth.
