The Blacks (band)

Career

Discography

Albums

• Dolly Horrorshow
• Just Like Home

  EPs

• In Sickness and Health

  Compilation appearances

• "The New World" on Poor Little Knitter on the Road
• "Why Drunky?" on Down to the Promised Land
• "Poncho's Lament" on "New Coat of Paint" - Tom Waits tribute album
• "Fake Out Jesus" on "While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records"

  Reception

• "Talk about first impressions. The Blacks grab the audience's attention just by walking onstage -- part hillbilly punk band, part cabaret troupe from Berlin's red-light district. With her false eyelashes, form-fitting party dress and pair of nymphs painted on the body of her upright bass, the statuesque Gina Black alone would be enough to stop traffic on Lake Shore Drive."
• "These are the Blacks, and they are one of the finest rock & roll bands you'll hear this year."
• "The Blacks, a Chicago trio with a penchant for fabulously queasy love songs, know how to make an entrance. Once the statuesque Gina Black took the stage at a local club in a dominatrix get-up. Leashed to her was bandmate Danny Black, dressed as a dog-collared Madison Avenue executive. It was arguably the most elaborate of the Blacks' sartorial pranks, but one that probably won't be soon repeated."
• "While making two albums for Bloodshot Records — "Dolly Horrorshow" and " Just Like Home" — the quartet created a sound and put on a show like nobody else, a cocktail of hillbilly punk, garage rock, red-light-district blues and cabaret, a dash of glam swagger and sensuality, and killer harmonies."

  Members

• Danny Black — vocals, guitar, trumpet
• Gina Black — standup bass, vocals, harmonica
• Nora O'Connor — guitar, vocals
• James Emmenegger — drums