The blues-rock band brought its “No Rain, No Flowers” tour to Northeast Ohio on Friday night. By Annie Nickoloff
If you couldn’t tell from the abundance of “THE BLACK KEYS AKRON OH” T-shirts in the crowd, this band wants you to know it has local roots.
The Black Keys’ hometown show at Blossom Music Center on Friday was full of Easter eggs that Northeast Ohio fans would appreciate. The band’s stagehands wore Goodyear T-shirts representing the Akron-based tire company. A fake retro “WTBK Channel 13 Akron” ad intro flashed on the stage screens periodically between songs. Midway through the band’s set, a Swensons deliverer ran onstage and singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach tossed foil-wrapped Galley boys, a famous Akron delicacy, out into the audience…