Dan Auerbach

American singer-songwriter and producer

Dan Auerbach

Auerbach playing with The Black Keys in 2012

Born|

Daniel Quine Auerbach

(1979-05-14) May 14, 1979 (age 46)

Wooster, Ohio, U.S.

Spouses|

* Stephanie Gonis

(m. 2008; div. 2013)​

* Jen Goodall

(m. 2015; div. 2019)​

Children| 2
Musical career
Genres|

* Blues rock
* garage rock
* psychedelic rock
* soul
* indie rock
* alternative rock

Occupations|

* Musician
* singer
* songwriter

Instruments|

* Vocals
* guitar
* bass
* piano
* keyboards

Years active| 1999–present
Labels|

* Alive
* Fat Possum
* Nonesuch
* V2
* Easy Eye Sound

Member of|

* The Black Keys
* The Arcs

Formerly of|

* The Barnburners

Website| easyeyesound.com

Musical artist

Daniel Quine Auerbach (/ˈaʊərbɑːk/; born May 14, 1979) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, best known as the guitarist and vocalist of The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.[1] As a member of the group, Auerbach has recorded and co-produced twelve studio albums with his bandmate Patrick Carney. Auerbach has also released two solo albums, Keep It Hid (2009) and Waiting on a Song (2017), and formed a side project, the Arcs, which released the albums Yours, Dreamily, (2015) and Electrophonic Chronic (2023).[2][3]

Auerbach owns the Easy Eye Sound recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as a record label of the same name. He has produced records by artists such as Cage the Elephant, Dr. John, Lana Del Rey, Ray LaMontagne, CeeLo Green, Hank Williams Jr and the Pretenders. In addition to winning several Grammy Awards as a member of the Black Keys, Auerbach received the 2013 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and was nominated again for the award in 2020, 2021 and 2023.

## Childhood and early life

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Auerbach was born in Ohio, and is the son of Mary Little (née Quine; b. about 1948), a teacher of French, and Charles Auerbach (b. about 1950), an antique dealer.[4] His father is of Polish Jewish descent[4] and his mother is of part Manx descent.[5][6] His maternal cousin, twice removed, was philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine, and his second cousin once removed was the late guitarist Robert Quine. Auerbach grew up in a family with musical roots. Auerbach became infatuated with blues after listening to his father's old vinyl records during his childhood. His first concert was Whitney Houston with his mother at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. His second concert was a Grateful Dead show with his father at the Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio.[7][8][9] He was influenced early on by his mother's side of the family, notably his uncles who played bluegrass music.

Auerbach described himself as a normal teenager in high school who smoked marijuana and captained the soccer team at Firestone High School.[10] He attended University of Akron. During college Auerbach was heavily influenced by Junior Kimbrough, eventually resulting in his dropping out to pursue the guitar more seriously. "I've listened to him so much, it's just how I hear it... I studied him so much... Getting F's in college, when I should've been studying, I was listening to Junior Kimbrough's music instead".[11] Other major influences include Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Clarence White, Robert Nighthawk, T-Model Ford, Hound Dog Taylor, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Kokomo Arnold, Son House, and the RZA of Wu-Tang Clan.

## The Black Keys

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Main article: The Black Keys

Auerbach is best known for his work with The Black Keys. Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney first met when they were eight or nine years old while living in the same neighborhood of Akron, Ohio.[12] Carney is the nephew of saxophonist Ralph Carney, who performed on several Tom Waits albums.[13] While attending Firestone High School, Carney and Auerbach became friends,[12] though they were part of different crowds.[14] Auerbach was captain of the high school soccer team, while Carney was a social outcast.[15] Encouraged by their brothers, the duo began jamming together in 1996, as Auerbach was learning guitar at the time and Carney owned a four-track recorder and a drum set.[16][17]

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the duo revealed that their big start came from a demo-recording session in Carney's basement. Auerbach initially went to record a demo with his band at the time but no one showed up. He and Carney then decided that they would just play instead. What came out of that session was ultimately sent out to several labels to try to secure a record deal.[18]

While attending university, Auerbach met and began regularly playing guitar with fellow Ohio blues musician Patrick Sweany while continuing to work on material for The Black Keys with Carney. Sweany was a friend of Auerbach's father, but the younger Auerbach was recommended by a mutual friend, who was impressed by Dan's authenticity when playing the likes of RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. Auerbach spent 18 months playing in Sweany's band, mainly playing baritone guitar. Sweany told Guitar.com that one night after a gig, Auerbach played Sweany the mixes for the Black Keys debut album, and he knew that his time in the band was over, stating, "Man, this is really interesting... so um, can you help me train your replacement!?"[19]

After signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up, in 2002, which earned them a new deal with jazz/rock label Fat Possum Records. Their third album, Rubber Factory, was released in 2004 and received critical acclaim; it boosted the band's profile, eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios, in 2008 the duo completed Attack & Release in a professional studio and hired producer Danger Mouse, a frequent collaborator with the band.[citation needed]

The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single "Tighten Up", won three Grammy Awards including Best Alternative Album of the Year. Their 2011 follow-up, El Camino, received strong reviews and reached number two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the band's career, the El Camino Tour. The album and its hit single "Lonely Boy" won three Grammy Awards. In 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia.

In 2011, the Black Keys became one of only a couple of bands in Saturday Night Live's history to appear as the musical guest twice in one year. They played the January 8 episode as well as the December 3 episode.

After the touring for Turn Blue concluded, Auerbach and Carney took a break from The Black Keys. Both Auerbach and Carney have been on record talking about needing a break from the constant working process. Carney said, "I love making music with Dan and I'm excited for when we do that next, and we will do it. But both of us have PTSD from being on the road constantly".[20] Auerbach added, "You can't just keep doing it, because it'll suck your brain dry".[21]

After their hiatus, The Black Keys returned in 2019 with the album Let's Rock produced by [The Black Keys] with the chart-topping single "Lo/Hi".[22] This was followed by 2021's Delta Kream, which consisted of blues covers performed with guitarist Kenny Brown and bassist Eric Deaton.

In 2022, The Black Keys announced Dropout Boogie.

## Other performances and bands

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### The Barnburners

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Auerbach was a member of a band called The Barnburners before forming The Black Keys in 2001.[23] The Barnburners included Auerbach, Jason Edwards and Kip Amore.[23] The Barnburners were a blues-based band that performed in Northeast Ohio clubs and released a 6-track album called The Rawboogie EP.[23] The album includes the Junior Kimbrough song "Meet Me in the City", which Auerbach later covered with The Black Keys on their Chulahoma tribute studio album.[23]

Dan Auerbach and the Fast Five playing the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio on March 5, 2009.

### The Fast Five

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The band Fast Five toured with Auerbach in 2009. The Fast Five's other members drew from the band Hacienda and percussionist Patrick Hallahan from My Morning Jacket.[24][25][26][27] The original percussionist, Bob Cesare, was unable to perform with the Fast Five because of a death in his family.[28]

Auerbach and fellow Black Keys member Patrick Carney met the members of Hacienda at a club, Emo's, in Austin, Texas while watching a band during the Austin City Limits Music Festival.[29] Upon seeing one of the Hacienda band members hit on an intoxicated woman, Carney walked over and leaned in saying, "Dude, trust me, that's a bad idea."[29] After becoming acquainted with each other, Auerbach e-mailed Hacienda a month later asking for more demos, which eventually led them to being asked to open for The Black Keys and Dr. Dog at a show in Austin, Texas.[29] Afterward, Auerbach asked Hacienda to travel to Akron, Ohio where they would be his "guinea pigs" while recording Keep It Hid.[29]

### Blakroc

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Blakroc was a studio album and collaboration by Auerbach and Carney of the Black Keys and Damon Dash, co-founder and former co-owner of Roc-A-Fella Records, who oversaw the project. The album featured a plethora of guest appearances from several indie and popular hip hop and R&B acts, namely Mos Def; Nicole Wray; Pharoahe Monch; Ludacris, Billy Danze of M.O.P.; Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest; Jim Jones; and NOE of ByrdGang; as well as Raekwon, RZA, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan.[30]

### The Arcs

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In 2015, Auerbach announced the formation of a new musical group known as The Arcs. Auerbach said about the band: "I just wanted to do my thing and get extra weird. I wanted everything to flow [and] be cohesive. It's basically everything I love about music all wrapped up into one record".[31]

The debut album, Yours, Dreamily, was released later in the summer of 2015.

During the Bataclan Theatre massacre, Auerbach and his band The Arcs were performing at the similarly sized nearby venue Le Trianon. Auerbach subsequently stated, "I know people that were there last night. I know people who are like, ‘What am I gonna do – see the Arcs or the Eagles of Death Metal?' And I've woken up feeling very out of sorts. What do you call it, survivor's remorse? Why the hell did it happen there and not where we were playing? I'm just so brokenhearted about all those people."[32]

On July 3, 2018, Richard Swift, the multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who was a member of the Arcs, died at the age of 41. Swift and Auerbach were very close friends, with Auerbach describing Swift as "one of the most talented musicians I know".[33]

The Arcs released their second album, Electrophonic Chronic, in January 2023.[34]

### Robert Finley

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In 2017, blues musician Robert Finley got connected with Auerbach, and the pair released an original soundtrack for the graphic novel Murder Ballads, published by z2 Comics.[35] Shortly after the release of the Murder Ballads soundtrack, Billboard announced that Finley would be releasing a full-length album produced and co-written by Auerbach.

The album, Goin' Platinum!, was released on Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound (Nonesuch Records) on December 8, 2017.[36] The following year Finley joined Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound Revue tour.[37]

In 2021, Finley announced the album Sharecropper's Son, to be released May 21, 2021 on Easy Eye Sound. The album is autobiographical in nature, and centers on Finley's upbringing on a crop share in Louisiana, and was produced by Auerbach.[38]

## Awards and honors

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The Black Keys' 2010 album, Brothers, won three Grammy awards. At the 2013 Grammy Awards, Auerbach won the award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for work on The Black Keys album El Camino, as well as those of Dr. John and Hacienda. [39] Auerbach was nominated three further times in 2020, 2021 and 2023.

Also at the 2013 Grammy Awards, Auerbach won the award for Best Rock Song for his song "Lonely Boy", Best Rock Performance for "Lonely Boy", and Best Rock Album for El Camino.[40]

In 2010, he joined the 9th annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.

## Personal life

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Auerbach first married Stephanie Gonis, with whom he has a daughter, Sadie Little Auerbach, born in 2008.[41] In 2013, they were divorced.

Auerbach, Patrick Carney, and Jack White have been involved in several public feuds. The roots of the conflict date back to 2012, when White banned Auerbach from his Nashville studio. They have since made amends and are now on good terms.[42][43][44]

In 2010, Auerbach moved from Akron, Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee. He moved his record label Easy Eye Sound and bought a studio as soon as he moved into town. Auerbach has described Nashville as not just being "a little tourist music spot" but much more. As Auerbach grew older he realized Nashville was "the spot I wanted to go to. There's the most music that I felt a connection to".[45]

## Discography

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Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys playing at Music Midtown in 2011

For a more comprehensive list, see The Black Keys discography.

Solo albums

* Keep It Hid (2009)
* Waiting on a Song (2017)

Solo singles

* "I Want Some More" (2009)
* "Heartbroken, In Disrepair" (2009)
* "Shine on Me" (2017)
* "Waiting on a Song" (12", Ltd, Bar / 2017)
* "Stand by My Girl" (2017)
* "King of a One Horse Town" (Digital / 2017)

with The Black Keys

* The Big Come Up (2002)
* Thickfreakness (2003)
* Rubber Factory (2004)
* Chulahoma (2006)
* Magic Potion (2006)
* Attack & Release (2008)
* Brothers (2010)
* El Camino (2011)
* Turn Blue (2014)
* Let's Rock (2019)
* Delta Kream (2021)
* Dropout Boogie (2022)
* Ohio Players (2024)
* No Rain, No Flowers (2025)

with Blakroc

* Blakroc (2009)

with The Arcs

* Yours, Dreamily, (2015)
* The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. I (2015)
* Electrophonic Chronic (2023)

## Musical collaborations

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Artist  | Album  | Role  | Year

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|
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SSM | EP1 | Recorded, Engineered | 2006
SSM | SSM | Recorded, Engineered | 2006
Patrick Sweany | C'mon C'mere | Guitar on "One More Time" | 2006
Brimstone Howl | Guts of Steel | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2007
John Doe | A Year in the Wilderness | Guitar | 2007
Nathaniel Mayer | Why Don't You Give It To Me | Co-producer, co-mixer, Guitar, Drums, Vocals | 2007
Radio Moscow | Radio Moscow | Producer, engineer, mixer, Acoustic Guitar | 2007
Patrick Sweany | Every Hour Is a Dollar Gone | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2007
Black Diamond Heavies | A Touch of Someone Else's Class | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2008
Buffalo Killers | Let It Ride | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2008
Hacienda | Loud Is The Night | Producer, engineer, mixer, BG Vocals, Guitar | 2008
Jessica Lea Mayfield | With Blasphemy So Heartfelt | Producer, engineer, Mixer, arranger, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass, Drums, BG Vocals, Piano, Synthesizer, Hammond Organ, Toy Piano, Lap Steel, Percussion | 2008
The Ettes | Danger Is EP | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2009
The Ettes | Do You Want Power | Producer, engineer, mixer, Piano on "No Home" | 2009
Nathaniel Mayer | Why Won't You Let Me Be Black? | Co-producer, co-mixer, Guitar, Vocals | 2009
Hacienda | Big Red & Barbacoa | Producer, engineer, mixer | 2010
Cadillac Sky | Letters in the Deep | Producer, engineer, mixer, Waterphone, Vocals | 2010
Parting Gifts | Strychnine Dandelion | Guitar | 2010
Shivering Timbers | We All Started in the Same Place | Producer, engineer, Drums, mixer | 2010
Jessica Lea Mayfield | Tell Me | Drum Loop, engineer, Guitar (Acoustic), Moog Synthesizer, producer, composer, Vocals | 2011
Brian Olive | Two of Everything | Engineer, Mixing, producer, BG Vocals | 2011
Reigning Sound | Abdication... For Your Love | Producer | 2011
Dr. John | Locked Down | Producer, Guitar, Percussion & Background Vocals | 2012
Hacienda | Shakedown | Producer | 2012
JEFF the Brotherhood | Hypnotic Nights | Mixing, producer, BG Vocals | 2012
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals | The Lion the Beast the Beat | Composer, Handclapping, producer, Vocals | 2012
The Growlers | Hung at Heart | Producer | 2013
Hanni El Khatib | Head in the Dirt | Producer, Bass, Guitar, Background Vocals, Percussion | 2013
Bombino | Nomad | Producer | 2013
Connie Britton | The Music of Nashville: Season 1 Volume 2 | Producer, guitar and vocals on "Bitter Memory" | 2013
Valerie June | Pushin' Against a Stone | Co-producer, guitar and vocals on "Wanna Be On Your Mind" | 2013
Ray LaMontagne | Supernova | Producer | 2014
Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | Producer, handclaps, shaker, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, synthesizer | 2014
Nikki Lane | All or Nothin | Producer | 2014
Lee Fields | Emma Jean | Guitar, vocals | 2014
Cage the Elephant | Tell Me I'm Pretty | Producer and co-writer on "Trouble" | 2015
A$AP Rocky | At. Long. Last. ASAP | Guitar | 2015
The Pretenders | Alone | Producer, writer, guitar | 2016
Robert Finley | Goin' Platinum | Producer, composer, guitar | 2017
Jake Bugg | Hearts That Strain | Composer, guitar | 2017
Shannon and the Clams | Onion | Producer | 2018
Sonny Smith | Rod for Your Love | Producer | 2018
La Luz | Floating Features | Producer | 2018
Shannon Shaw | Shannon in Nashville | Producer, composer, guitar | 2018
Gibson Brothers | Mockingbird | Producer | 2018
Chuck Auerbach | Remember Me | Guitar, producer | 2018
Night Beats | Myth of a Man | Producer | 2019
Dee White | Southern Gentleman | Producer, composer, guitar | 2019
Yola | Walk Through Fire | Producer, Musician | 2019
Leo Bud Welch | The Angels in Heaven Done Signed My Name | Producer | 2019
Kendell Marvel | Solid Gold Sounds | Producer | 2019
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes | Cypress Grove | Producer, composer, guitar | 2019
Purple Mountains | Purple Mountains | Co-writer on "Maybe I'm the Only One for Me" | 2019
The Cactus Blossoms | Easy Way | Co-writer on "Got a Lotta Love" and "Blue as the Ocean"  | 2019
Marcus King | El Dorado | Producer | 2020
Early James | Singing for My Supper | Producer | 2020
John Anderson | Years | Producer | 2020
CeeLo Green | CeeLo Green Is Thomas Callaway | Producer | 2020
Zella Day | Where Does the Devil Hide | Producer | 2020
Aaron Frazer | Introducing... | Producer, backing vocals, guitar | 2021
Tony Joe White | Smoke From the Chimney | Producer, percussion, guitar | 2021
Robert Finley | Sharecropper's Son | Producer, composer, guitar | 2021
Yola | Stand for Myself | Producer, composer, percussion, guitar | 2021
Shannon and the Clams | Year of the Spider | Producer | 2021
The Velveteers | Nightmare Daydream | Producer, composer, guitar, percussion | 2021
Ceramic Animal | Sweet Unknown | Producer, composer, guitar | 2022
Son House | Forever on my Mind | Producer | 2022
Hank Williams Jr. | Rich White Honky Blues | Producer, backing vocals, percussion, guitar, slide guitar | 2022
Various Artists | Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson | Producer | 2022
Early James | Strange Time To Be Alive | Producer, composer | 2022
Marcus King | Young Blood | Producer, composer, guitar | 2022
Hermanos Gutiérrez | El Bueno y el Malo | Producer, mixing | 2022
Robert Finley | Black Bayou | Producer, handclaps, composer, percussion, guitar | 2023
Shannon and the Clams | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Producer | 2024
Hermanos Gutiérrez | Sonido Cosmico | Producer, mixing | 2024
Britti | Hello, I'm Britti | Producer, mixing | 2024
Jon Muq | Flying Away | Producer, mixing | 2024
Jeremie Albino | Our Time In The Sun | Producer | 2024
Early James | Medium Raw | Producer, mixing | 2025
The Velveteers | A Million Knives | Producer, mixing | 2025
Moonrisers | Harsh & Exciting | Producer, mixing | 2025

## Musical equipment

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### Guitars

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Auerbach at Madison Square Garden in 2012

* Fender Jerry Donahue Telecaster[46]
* Harmony Stratotone H47[46]
* Harmony H78 Hollowbody[46]
* Harmony Heath TG-46[47]
* Harmony Rocket[47]
* Höfner 176 Galaxie [48]

* Gibson Firebird VII[46]
* 70's Gibson Les Paul Deluxe[46]
* 60's Gibson SG Junior[46]
* Guild Thunderbird (S-200 T-Bird)
* Supro Martinique[47]
* Silvertone U1[47]
* Silvertone 1454[49]
* Rickenbacker 360[47]
* Ibanez SG copy[47]
* Ibanez Rocket Roll[flying v copy][47]
* National Map[47]
* Teisco Del Rey SS-4L[47]
* Reverend Flatroc

### Amplification

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* Fender Quad Reverb[47]
* Marshall JTM45 and vintage Marshall 8x10 cab[47]
* Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue[46]
* Fender Musicmaster Bass[47]
* Fender Super Reverb[50]
* Victoria Double Deluxe[51][52]
* 1960s Fender blackface Princeton
* 1963 Fender Vibroverb

### Effects

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* Ibanez Standard Fuzz[53]
* Sovtek Big Muff[47]
* Earthquaker Devices Hoof Fuzz[54]
* Gibson Maestro Fuzz Tone[46]
* Tubeplex tape delay[47]
* Fulltone Tape Echo[47]
* Boss TR-2 Tremolo[47]
* Analogman Sunface[47]
* Boss Super Shifter
* Boss Super Octave
* Nu Wah Fuzz Wah

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Awards for Dan Auerbach

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Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

1970s|

* Thom Bell (1975)
* Arif Mardin (1976)
* Stevie Wonder (1977)
* Peter Asher (1978)
* Bee Gees (Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb & Robin Gibb), Albhy Galuten & Karl Richardson (1979)

1980s|

* Larry Butler (1980)
* Phil Ramone (1981)
* Quincy Jones (1982)
* Toto (1983)
* Michael Jackson & Quincy Jones (1984)
* James Anthony Carmichael & Lionel Richie / David Foster (1985)
* Phil Collins & Hugh Padgham (1986)
* Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (1987)
* Narada Michael Walden (1988)
* Neil Dorfsman (1989)

1990s|

* Peter Asher (1990)
* Quincy Jones (1991)
* David Foster (1992)
* Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois / L.A. Reid & Babyface (1993)
* David Foster (1994)
* Don Was (1995)
* Babyface (1996–1998)
* Rob Cavallo (1999)

2000s|

* Walter Afanasieff (2000)
* Dr. Dre (2001)
* T Bone Burnett (2002)
* Arif Mardin (2003)
* The Neptunes (2004)
* John Shanks (2005)
* Steve Lillywhite (2006)
* Rick Rubin (2007)
* Mark Ronson (2008)
* Rick Rubin (2009)

2010s|

* Brendan O'Brien (2010)
* Danger Mouse (2011)
* Paul Epworth (2012)
* Dan Auerbach (2013)
* Pharrell Williams (2014)
* Max Martin (2015)
* Jeff Bhasker (2016)
* Greg Kurstin (2017–2018)
* Pharrell Williams (2019)

2020s|

* Finneas O'Connell (2020)
* Andrew Watt (2021)
* Jack Antonoff (2022–2024)
* Dan Nigro (2025)

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Grammy Award for Best Rock Song

1990s|

* "The Soul Cages" – Sting (songwriter) (1992)
* "Layla" (Unplugged version) – Eric Clapton & Jim Gordon (songwriters) (1993)
* "Runaway Train" – Dave Pirner (songwriter) (1994)
* "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (1995)
* "You Oughta Know" – Alanis Morissette & Glen Ballard (songwriters) (1996)
* "Give Me One Reason" – Tracy Chapman (songwriter) (1997)
* "One Headlight" – Jakob Dylan (songwriter) (1998)
* "Uninvited" – Alanis Morissette (songwriter) (1999)

2000s|

* "Scar Tissue" – Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis & Chad Smith (songwriters) (2000)
* "With Arms Wide Open" – Scott Stapp & Mark Tremonti (songwriters) (2001)
* "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" – Charlie Colin, Rob Hotchkiss, Pat Monahan, Jimmy Stafford & Scott Underwood (songwriters) (2002)
* "The Rising" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (2003)
* "Seven Nation Army" – Jack White (songwriter) (2004)
* "Vertigo" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2005)
* "City of Blinding Lights" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2006)
* "Dani California" – Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis & Chad Smith (songwriters) (2007)
* "Radio Nowhere" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (2008)
* "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (2009)

2010s|

* "Use Somebody" – Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill (songwriters) (2010)
* "Angry World" – Neil Young (songwriter) (2011)
* "Walk" – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear (songwriters) (2012)
* "Lonely Boy" – Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton & Patrick Carney (songwriters) (2013)
* "Cut Me Some Slack" – Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear (songwriters) (2014)
* "Ain't It Fun" – Hayley Williams & Taylor York (songwriters) (2015)
* "Don't Wanna Fight" – Zac Cockrell, Heath Fogg, Brittany Howard & Steve Johnson (songwriters) (2016)
* "Blackstar" – David Bowie (songwriter) (2017)
* "Run" – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear (songwriters) (2018)
* "Masseduction" – Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark (songwriters) (2019)

2020s|

* "This Land" – Gary Clark Jr. (songwriter) (2020)
* "Stay High" – Brittany Howard (songwriter) (2021)
* "Waiting on a War" – Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Rami Jaffee, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear (songwriters) (2022)
* "Broken Horses" – Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth (songwriters) (2023)
* "Not Strong Enough" – Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers & Lucy Dacus (songwriters) (2024)
* "Broken Man" – Annie Clark (songwriter) (2025)

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The Black Keys

* Dan Auerbach
* Patrick Carney

Studio albums|

* The Big Come Up
* Thickfreakness
* Rubber Factory
* Magic Potion
* Attack & Release
* Brothers
* El Camino
* Turn Blue
* Let's Rock
* Delta Kream
* Dropout Boogie
* Ohio Players
* No Rain, No Flowers

EPs and mini-LPs|

* The Six Parts Seven/The Black Keys EP
* Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough

Collaborative albums|

* Blakroc

Singles|

* "The Moan"
* "Leavin' Trunk"
* "She Said, She Said"
* "Set You Free"
* "Hard Row"
* "Have Love Will Travel"
* "10 A.M. Automatic"
* "'Till I Get My Way"
* "Girl Is on My Mind"
* "Your Touch"
* "You're the One"
* "Just Got to Be"
* "Strange Times"
* "I Got Mine"
* "Same Old Thing"
* "Tighten Up"
* "Howlin' for You"
* "Ohio"
* "Lonely Boy"
* "Gold on the Ceiling"
* "Little Black Submarines"
* "Fever"
* "Turn Blue"
* "Bullet in the Brain"
* "Gotta Get Away"
* "Weight of Love"
* "Lo/Hi"
* "I Forgot to Be Your Lover"

Other releases|

* Live in Austin, TX
* Live at the Crystal Ballroom

Related|

* Discography
* Drummer
* Keep It Hid
* Audio Eagle Records
* El Camino Tour
* Danger Mouse
* The Arcs

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The Arcs

* Dan Auerbach
* Leon Michels
* Nick Movshon
* Homer Steinweiss

* Richard Swift

Studio albums|

* Yours, Dreamily, (2015)
* Electrophonic Chronic (2023)

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* WorldCat

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* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
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Artists|

* MusicBrainz
* Grammy Awards

Other|

* Yale LUX

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