“I didn’t know it’d be the last time, but in my heart and in my mind, Levon will always be with me because I take him everywhere I go.” – Mavis Staples

Carlos Johnson, Lorenzo Thompson, Dexter Allen, Leilani Kilgore, and Tia Carroll join Taylor on his new album release ‘Blues Friends.’

As they have done their entire career, the duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney wrote all of the material in the studio, and the new album captures a number of first takes that hark back to the stripped-down blues rock of their early days making music together in Akron, Ohio basements.

“Making the video was so much fun as I could use my spinning/gun handling experience as a sheriff! I’m a big western movie fan, especially the movie ‘Tombstone,’ starring Val Kilmer.” – Micki Free