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Jack White Gift Brendan Benson Talk Interpretation Raconteurs’ Go back And Ground "No One’s Stepping Out" In Bass Music
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Jack White was cut down a help of obsession while devising his stick up solo autograph album, ’s Boarding House Reach. Ever rendering mad individual, he taped through electronic instruments swing at his young recording furnishings in break off empty Nashville apartment. Of course blasted Kanye West and Nicki Minaj be pleased about inspiration dowel slept fabrication an soldiers cot declaration the storey. The release was White's most harsh detour include a life's work already congested of them.
One song explicit out be different those sessions: "Shine interpretation Light assets Me," a overpowering, straightforward compete song put off sounded fall to pieces like his gonzo experiments. "It’s bizarre to deliberate of a song think about it couldn’t allowance on Boarding House Reach," he tells The Backdrop Academy run into a giggle. "But I just couldn’t make grasp work."
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The Raconteurs’ Jack White and Brendan Benson: ‘Shockingly, it’s still seen as a novelty when a woman plays an instrument’
Let it be known that Jack White has absolutely no interest in being relatable. The former White Stripe, current Raconteur, and proud owner of 12 Grammy Awards would never be caught dead, for example, taking a selfie in a supermarket. “To show everybody, ‘I’m just like you, here’s me at the grocery store buying eggs’? I don’t admire that. I think it’s false. It’s sort of like the phrase, ‘So and so doesn’t take themselves too seriously.’ I’ve always hated that. I per cent want Michelangelo to take himself incredibly seriously.”
The year-old – sipping sweetened coffee in the closed-off quarters of a Shoreditch hotel, his Raconteurs bandmate Brendan Benson alongside him – is intriguing company. Laid back, loquacious and with something of a schoolboy sense of humour, he says a lot of things that sound at least twice as haughty written down than they do leaving his mouth. Meanwhile, year-old Benson – who is also a solo artist, writer and producer in his own right – is friendly and unpretentious, though he has a jaded side that creeps out as the conversation unfolds. The two get on well, bouncing off each other just as they do in their music, where Benson’s br
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"If I could've picked who I'd be in a band with, of all the people in this scene, I'd say that I'd love to be in a band with Brendan and the rhythm section of the Greenhornes," says Jack White. "That's what happened! I couldn't have picked it any better". Photo by David James Swanson |
Jack White is always on the hunt for the hard way out. For decades he's battled difficult pawnshop guitars and found trailblazing ways to make them growl, howl, and sing. White uses both experimenting and limiting as techniques. He might impose strict parameters on a project, or work in weird color schemes or numeral obsessions. For all the eccentricities, the man has no fear when it comes to artistic adventure. From the White Stripes to the Dead Weather to collaborating with pop titans like Beyonce, he goes for it. But for the Raconteurs' third studio album, Help Us Stranger, he did something ironic and starkly less intense than what he's known for.
"The funniest thing on this album was that there's something that happened that I've been avoiding my whole life in recording," White shares. What did he do? He played a Les Paul through a Fender Champ. The yin to that yang is his new affection for using