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Patrick Carney | |
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.jpg) Carney performing in 2014 | |
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| Also known as | The Salesman, Chilli con Carney, Tickles, Captain Crunch. |
| Born | Patrick James Carney (1980-04-15)April 15, 1980 (age 45) Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
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Patrick James Carney (born April 15, 1980) is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer ofthe Black Keys, ablues rock band fromAkron, Ohio.
Carney stated in an interview withModern Drummer that he never took drum lessons as a child, but learned by mimicking friends who also were drummers, using a $150 drumset that he bought with money earned from a job as a teenager.[1] Carney grew up inAkron, Ohio.
In 2001, Carney and Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist, formed the Black Keys, releasing their debut albumThe Big Come Up less than a year later. This was followed byThickfreakness in 2003 andRubber Factory in 2004. The band's fourth albumMagic Potion was released in 2006.Attack & Release, their critically acclaimed fifth album was released in 2008, with a follow-up in 2010 titledBrothers. The band released the albumsEl Camino in 2011,Turn Blue in 2014,Let's Rock in 2019,Delta Kream in 2021, andDropout Boogie in 2022. The band's albumOhio Players was released on April 5, 2024.
Carney currently produces and writes music out of hisNashville,Tennessee-based recording studio, Audio Eagle. He has produced a range of artists from various musical backgrounds including the Black Keys,Michelle Branch,Calvin Johnson,[2]Tennis,the Sheepdogs, Beaten Awake, Houseguest, Churchbuilder,Jessy Wilson,[3]Kramies and*repeat repeat.[4]
Audio Eagle Studio is a recording studio opened in 2001 by Carney. The studio was located in Akron, Ohio and consisted mostly of a digital 12-track recorder. It went through many incarnations and configurations and was mainly used to record the first four Black Keys albums. In 2010, the studio was relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.
Carney hosts a monthly radio show onSirius XMU called "Serious Boredom with Patrick Carney."
Carney had a segment onHBO's news show,Vice News Tonight, titled "Patrick Carney's High Standards Music Corner" where he listened to and judged new songs.[5]
In 2009, while fellow Black Keys member Dan Auerbach was on his solo tour, Carney formed a new band calledDrummer in which he played bass guitar. Each of the band's members had played drums in another band. They releasedFeel Good Together, their debut album in the same year. Carney is the drummer onthe Rentals' 2014 albumLost in Alphaville.[6]
Carney contributed the main titletheme to the 2014Netflix showBoJack Horseman, and, in 2017, music to itssoundtrack.
Carney's first marriage was to writer Denise Grollmus, in 2007, when he lived in Akron, Ohio.[7] The two had dated for several years, since Grollmus was a student atOberlin College in Ohio and Carney and Dan Auerbach launched the Black Keys. The couple divorced in 2009. Both talked about the messy breakup in the media; Carney inRolling Stone's May 27, 2010, issue and Grollmus in an essay - "Snapshots From a Rock 'N' Roll Marriage", published inSalon on March 3, 2011.[7]
In 2010, Carney and his bandmate, Dan Auerbach, moved from Akron and purchased homes in Nashville.[8] They recorded theirEl Camino album at Auerbach's newly completed Nashville studio, Easy Eye Sound Studio.
Carney married Emily Ward, whom he had met while living inNew York City, on September 15, 2012, in the backyard of their Nashville home.[9] Carney and Ward divorced in January 2016. Ward, aCalifornia native, had moved toLos Angeles by that time.
In 2015, Carney metMichelle Branch at aGrammy party, and the two started dating during the production of Branch's albumHopeless Romantic, which Carney produced.[10] In 2017, Branch and her daughter Owen moved into Carney's Nashville home, which they share with Irish wolfhounds.[11][12] Carney and Branch became engaged on her birthday in 2017.[13] On February 11, 2018, Branch announced that she and Carney were expecting their first child. Their son, Rhys James Carney, was born in August 2018.[14][15] Carney and Branch married in April 2019.[16]
In December 2020, it was revealed that Branch suffered a miscarriage.[17] In February 2022, Branch gave birth to a daughter, her second with Carney, and her third total. On August 11, 2022, Branch announced her separation from Carney, citing his alleged infidelity. She was arrested on a charge of domestic assault due to slapping Carney after accusing him of infidelity.[18] This charge was later dismissed.[19] The couple later reconciled.[20]
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