Patrick Carney
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Patrick James Carney |
| Also known as | The Salesman, Chilli con Carney |
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April 15, 1980 Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
| Genres | Blues rock, garage rock, indie rock |
| Instruments | Drums, guitar, bass guitar, keyboard |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Associated acts | The Black Keys, Blakroc, Drummer, The Sheepdogs, The Rentals, Dan Auerbach |
| Website | www |
| Notable instruments | |
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Ludwig Drums Paiste Cymbals |
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Patrick James Carney (born April 15, 1980) is an American musician best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He also has a side-project rock band called Drummer.
Carney's father, Jim, was a reporter until his retirement from the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio, where his stepmother, Katie Byard, still works. His mother, Mary Stormer, is an Akron Municipal Court deputy clerk and is a former member of the Akron Board of Education. His stepfather, Barry Stormer, owns B. A. Stormer Construction Services. His uncle, Ralph Carney, is a professional sax player, and has played with Tom Waits, among others. After Carney's parents divorced when he was 6, he lived part of the time with his mother, Mary Stormer, and part of the time with his father, Jim Carney, who had moved to a different neighborhood on the west side of Akron, Ohio. Dan Auerbach also lived in this neighborhood, and the two met and played tag football with Auerbach's friends, although they did not become friends until high school. Carney stated in an interview with Modern Drummer that he never took drum lessons as a kid, but learned by mimicking friends that were also drummers using a $150 drumset that he bought using money earned from a job washing dishes. As a teenager, Carney was musically influenced by bands such as Pavement, Captain Beefheart and fellow Akron band Devo.
In 2001 Carney and Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist, formed The Black Keys, releasing their debut album The Big Come Up less than a year later. This was followed by Thickfreakness in 2003 and Rubber Factory in 2004. The band's fourth album Magic Potion was released in 2006. Attack & Release, their critically acclaimed fifth album was released in 2008, with a follow up in 2010 titled Brothers. In 2011, the band released the album El Camino. The band's latest album is Turn Blue, released in 2014.
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