Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach will roar back June 2 with his second solo album, Waiting On A Song. The project is Auerbach’s first under his own name since 2009’s Keep It Hid. For Waiting On A Song, his “love letter to Nashville,” Auerbach enlisted heavy-hitters including John Prine, Mark Knopfler, Duane Eddy, Jerry Douglas, Pat McLaughlin, Bobby Wood, and Gene Chrisman. “Living in Nashville has definitely changed the way I think about music and the way that I record it,” he said in a press release. “I didn’t have all of these resources before. I am working with some of the greatest musicians that ever lived.” Auerbach is releasing Waiting On A Song via his new label, Easy Eye Sound, and he recorded the album’s 10 tunes at his Easy Eye Studio in Nashville, where The Black Keys recorded 2011’s El Camino and 2014’s Turn Blue. “I built [the studio] to accommodate live musicians playing,” Auerbach said, “and then all of a sudden the best musicians in Nashville show up, and it’s happening.”
