Keep It Hid by Dan Auerbach

Keep It Hid, Dan Auerbach's first solo album, came out on Nonesuch on February 10, 2009, a side trip away from the Akron duo he runs with Patrick Carney in the Black Keys. Without Carney's drums pushing him, Auerbach lets the songs stretch out a little: the blues-rock grit is still there, but it's smokier and looser, the sound of a guy playing to please himself.

The songs have had long lives on screen. "I Want Some More" turned up in Peaky Blinders, "Heartbroken, in Disrepair" landed in the 2011 video game Need for Speed: The Run and later in the HBO Max series Lanterns, and the closing "Goin' Home" was picked for Up in the Air, a film from that same year. He took eight years to make another solo record: Waiting on a Song came in 2017.

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