The record spawned three singles: 'Set You Free', 'Hard Row', and a cover of Richard Berry's 'Have Love, Will Travel'. Thickfreakness was released on Apand received positive reviews from critics. Despite modest sales for The Big Come Up, it gained a cult following and attracted attention from critics, eventually landing the group a record deal with Fat Possum Records. In order to help fund a tour, Auerbach and Carney took jobs mowing lawns for a landlord. The track 'I'll Be Your Man' would later be used as the theme song for the HBO series Hung. Two tracks, covers of the traditional blues standard 'Leavin' Trunk' and The Beatles' song 'She Said, She Said', were released as a single on Isota Records. The album, a mix of eight original tracks and five cover songs, forged a raw blues rock sound for the group the covers included tracks originally by blues musicians Muddy Waters, Junior Kimbrough, and R. The band's debut album, The Big Come Up, was recorded entirely in Carney's basement on an 8-track tape recorder in lo-fi and was released in May 2002, three months after they signed to Alive. On March 20, 2002, the duo played their first live show at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people. According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name 'the Black Keys' came from an artist diagnosed with schizophrenia, Alfred McMoore, that the pair knew he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as 'black keys' such as 'D flat' when he was upset with them.
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