The Black Keys Set To Release Blues Classics Album ‘Peaches!’ Along With a World Tour

In 2024, The Black Keys released Ohio Players featuring collaborations with Beck, Dan The Automator, and Noel Gallagher. In 2025, they released No Rain, No Flowers, which saw them collaborate with Lana Del Rey’s producer Rick Nowels. Their upcoming fourteenth album sees the band returning to their roots. Peaches! will include covers of blues classics by RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and others. The new album features a second guitarist, Kenny Brown, along with multi-instrumentalist Jimbo Mathus. Previously, Kenny Brown played slide guitar on The Black Keys’ Delta Kream in 2021.

Peaches! is similar to the 2021 release, as Delta Kream was a cover album of hill country blues songs. Delta Kream peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, while hitting No. 1 on both the Top Alternative Albums chart and the Top Rock Albums chart. Other covers to be featured on Peaches! includes “You Got To Lose” by Ike Turner, “Who’s Been Foolin’ You” by Arthur Crudup, and “She Does It Right” by Wilko Johnson. The album sees Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney returning to their stripped-down, straightforward blues approach that they were originally known for.

The Black Keys Have Embarked on a World Tour

On April 24, The Black Keys opened their Peaches ‘N Kream World Tour in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The tour runs until late October, wrapping up in Windsor, Ontario, on October 18. Throughout the spring and summer, the tour makes stops in the US and Canada. In August, the tour moves to Europe with stops in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain. Supporting acts for the tour include Miles Kane, Eddie 9V, Fai Laci, Robert Finley, and Jeremie Albino.

The tour’s setlist will feature the cover songs from both Peaches! and Delta Kream, as well as original hits from the band, creating a wide variety of songs throughout. Peaches! will be released on May 1, and the single “You Got To Lose” was released on February 6, 2026. The cover of the Ike Turner Chicago blues classic is based on George Thorogood’s cover of the song from 1977. Additionally, their cover of Willie Griffin’s “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire” was also released ahead of the album.