Black Keys fans got their fix of the band on Thursday night, Aug. 21, at the Pine Knob Music Theatre — more than nine months after they initially expected.

The Akron-formed, now Nashville-based duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney planned to end its 2024 tour last November at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena. The trek was canceled over logistical issues that led to an acrimonious split with the group’s management, leaving the Keys to retreat, make a new album (“No Rain, No Flowers”) and, basically, get back on the horse.

And on Thursday Auerbach and Carney — one of rock’s most consistently exciting live acts during the past 25 or so years — seemed no worse for the wear.

Following a 55-minute opening set by Austin, Texas guitar hero Gary Clark Jr. — whose ferocious playing cut through a

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