some of best are on auerbach's new solo album, his second. ♪ shine on me shine on me ♪ >> auerbach isme of nashville's best musicians like legend aary song leader john cry. >> what have you got about out of the process. >> it's changed my life. i can't wait to go to the studio every day. it's like christmasing. >> that's great. >> it's like "field of dreams," if you build it, they will come. i didn't know these guys but i built it in nashville. i finally met a whole group of people with the same weird addiction, you know? >>. >> yes. >> these guys are in that mid morning. we'll be there until the next morning and i'll see them and they'll bring coffee. >> that leads to the inevitable question where does that leave the keys? >> we're just taking a break, a nice little vacation. >> the black keys broke out with the album "brothers" in 2010. they've since scored four number one songs on the alternative chart. and on tour, the band began selling out major arenas like madison square garden. but auerbach says he and drummer patrick carney grew weary of life on the road. >> it's hard when yo

. >> rose: we conclude with don auerbach waiting on a song. >> it's that creative process i'm so addicted to and that's the beautiful thing about it. >> rose: georgia election, north korea, salma hayek and john lithgow and dan auerbach. all of that when we continue. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin this evening with politics. republican karen handel defeated democrat john ossoff in the special election run off in georgia's sixth congressional district yesterday. it was the most expensive house race in the history. it drew national attention. viewed it as a referendum on president trump and his agenda. for democrats ossoff lost raises questions about its strategic and leadership. it may the strengthen efforts to push their ambitious legislative agenda forward. and the president is all smiles. joining me from washington to talk about the results of this race and what it mean for both parties is al hunt from bloomberg vie

and dan auerbach releases "waiting on a song." ♪ kill me if i don't ♪ >> rose: we will have those stories more on what happened and what might happen. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications >> rose: and you begin how? what's the object lesson here? >> there is just no greater rush. >> rose: tell me the significance of the moment. >> rose: this was the week president trump made good on his promise to pull out of the paris climate accord. the house intelligence committee issued subpoenas for former national security adviser michael flynn and michael cohen, the president's personal lawyer. and the san francisco warriors take a one-game lead over the cleveland cavaliers in the n.b.a. finals. >> that's a three! >> rose: here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. >> pioneer of southern rock is being remembered tonight. gregg allman has died. >> north korea has testifiered another short-range ballistic missile. >> it lande

. ♪ charlie: dan auerbach is here, the nine time grammy award-winning musician who is known as of thes. one halfis also an award-winning producer of a garage bands. he returns with his first solo album in eight years. it is called, "weighing on a song." the album has been called a love letter to the city of nashville. here is dan performing right -- performing the track right here in our studio. ♪ >> ♪ i've been thinking i've been strumming i have been picking and i have been strumming waiting waiting on a song i can almost hear one coming i'm just waiting waiting on a song i look down in my pocket underneath the bed walked under a lamp post and one hit me on the head am i blind or too dumb to see all the sounds surrounding me i am just waiting waiting on a song you can look up at the stars bow your head and count the cars you'll still be waiting waiting on a song might be a bluebird or a crow between two posts you'll still be waiting waiting on a song blow on trees you have to pick them out the breeze you fall down on your knees and pray one comes along when those railroad gates come

you'll be waiting waiting on a song you'll be waiting songng on a charlie: i'm pleased to have dan auerbach first time. dan: thanks for having me. charlie: you said you put everything you know about music in this album. my: it's almost like i spent life for. to make this record in a weird way. just listening to the records i did in putting together the studio, than i meet all these great musicians in nashville and all of a sudden they are congregating at the studio. this record sort of came out of settling into nashville, and kind of living it. charlie: longtime since your last solo album. dan: it's been a long time. i had success with the black keys and we went on the road. we hit it hard, and we never stopped. so i mean, the black keys, we took a break last summer and we have been touring for almost 4 years solid, straight. charlie: plus 8 grammys. how is it different for you in terms of going solo, or being half of the black keys? i guess for me, when i'm working alone on something, it changes every time i go in the studio. it's whoever i'm working with that day. when you're in a band, i