Jack White at his best

Jack White at his best. The diversity of rock converges in his person, it seems, because wealthy written on his first solo album by the rock history The White Stripes and a follow-up projects The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather sprayed it only seems like playfulness, variety and ideas on Blunderbuss.

The son of Detroit has made himself comfortable in recent years in Nashville, the only ostensible Country mecca of North America, with his wife, children, his Third Man label and his recording studio. Ostensibly, only because he there the Blues and its cultural impact and implications in Tennessee course much closer than in the center of the 70's garage rock called Detroit from which he comes. Not the worst positioning so for a rock musician, who has devoted himself from the beginning to the Blues. Now, the studio is well frequented, the label is flourishing, but the marriage was divorced after six years. But as at that time with his White Stripes-partner, anything but a bed of roses has become of it. Man listening to last year when the message dealt White and the model / the musician Karen Elson celebrate a big divorce party with all our friends and remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents.

And so Blunderbuss has become anything but a Trauerkloß of a solo album. And of course it is playful coquetry to name his first professional Eigenwerk Dub. White always knew with the levels of self-representation deal, after all, he makes no bones about it: who stands on the stage and an audience speaks / sings, is a limelight, the more one, the other less. And if you do it so well, one may calm a little flirt. As shaked, rattled and rolled on the Shakin like a always punchy drums and a chubby Piano loss processing sing and load free in Weep Themselves To Sleep, like a bluesy retro riff and a hastily crazy rhythm on Freedom At 21 flip-over how Sixteen Saltines crashes in the best White-Stripes-style, rocking and confident as, with the ex-wife in a duet, Take Me With You When You Go dismisses the listener into spherical heights and produces affirmation of life: it is a real sweeping blow from Blues, garage rock, honky tonk, country bonds and singer / songwriter areas can become a listening experience in the literal sense, the Blunderbuss.

Significant band splits always trigger dismay, often rightly so. When Jack White while you could from the outset be sure that this does not mean the end of his compelling musical oeuvres. The Flaming Lips singing it already and we sing with: Thank you, Jack White.

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