Your Team Is Looking Good

Album: Dropout Boogie (2022)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Your Team Is Looking Good" is Dan Auerbach's trash talk chant soldiered to a rowdy blues jam. It was the last song The Black Keys recorded for their Dropout Boogie album.
  • The impromptu addition came about when American musicologist David Evans approached Auerbach. Evans had recorded a bunch of musicians from the South between the late '60s and the '80s and he wanted to play them to the Black Keys singer. "He specialized in regional recordings from the South, and his collection was like his very own Library of Congress," Auerbach told Uncut magazine. "He asked me if I was interested in hearing some tapes, and his assistant sent me a couple of recordings, just as examples. There were some blues songs, some hill country songs, some fife-and-drum songs. Some really amazing stuff."

    Among the recordings was one from a high school in Senatobia, Mississippi, where the girls were singing a football chant: "Hey, hey over there. Your team is looking good. But not as good as ours."

    When Auerbach heard it, he told his bandmate, Patrick Carney, "Pat! We have to record this!"
  • Jazz-inflected bluegrass singer-songwriter Sierra Ferrell provided the barely audible backing vocals. Ferrell has also collaborated with the likes of Billy Strings, Diplo, Ray LaMontagne, and Old Crow Medicine Show.

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