I like it, obviously, but I had trouble ... I must be a slob on the edges

Because it is the gift of a friend to whom, in return, I offered a CD Jason Aldean, I know I'll pass for a slob taste of shit when he passes, he, for a delicate taste for sure. I assume! ... Jack and Jason Aldean WHITE embody the two most contradictory faces of business but may Nashville, and one and the other, be # 1 on the Billboard 200.

Jack WHITE ... I enjoyed it from the start when, around 2000, the first two albums of the White Stripes were imported. We know what happened: a phenomenal success and express assumption of that Jack WHITE Pantheon of American music whether rock with big zeppelinniens riffs or minimalist Appalachian bluegrass. How the slightest reservation about The Raconteurs and Dead Wheather? How can I make reservations on such artist who shines as a group than solo? Guitarist outsized talented multi-instrumentalist, producer inspiration, here's a guy who can go out of her Loretta LYNN mothballs, cozy up to the legendary Wanda Jackson to complete a work as rock 'n' roll that country began there half -century and invite the young Ashley Monroe for a country radically featuring bluegrass (Ashley MONROE, my favorite country singer Connie Smith and ... since Tanya Tucker).

For Christmas, I am offered 'Lazaretto', the next installment of the Master ... What a great inspiration! ... I listen feverishly ... and it does not really done ... and not at all at first listen. I'm on Amazon: all opinions are unanimous: 'Lazaretto' is a great record ... I'm redneck who does not understand ... I must replay because apart from the title track and ' High Ball Stepper ', I stayed on my hunger.

For example, we would like 'Temporary Ground' or 'Entitlement' are marvels of country but country is a music I listen every day for 50 years ... Of course, I realize that this does not resemble the great country that I still love today: that of Lucinda Williams (DOWN WHERE THE SPIRIT MEETS THE BONE), that of Ronnie Dunn (Peace Love and Country Music). But the country WHITE way Jack does not really take to the true number of music-country artists can deliver, be it traditional country, bluegrass oriented or alternative-country experimental Americana: simple matter of beauty sound and vocal grit. Like I'd argue that the epitome country was on and the album 'Desire' by Bob Dylan. This, on the grounds that the King Robert to pose like a cowboy-hatter, the fiddle Scarlet Rivera continues to talk to and nines, Emmylou Harris is a double all the vocal lines of the Master. So yes, if 'Desire' is a great country album, 'Lazaretto' (at least some titles) fall into this country then ... I know better and much more bewitching ear. Jack is a great deconstructive WHITE: a structuralist who dismantles the mechanism but to raise the knowingly backwards. A deconstructive coming of the great rock culture by declaring a sincere love for the country. Relatively speaking, I think of a Frank Zappa, paragon of deconstruction pioneering rock'n'roll came from the "classical" music (admittedly reviewed and corrected by Edgard Varese and Igor Stravinsky) without ceasing to proclaim his love for doo-wop. Jack WHITE is country like Frank Zappa was doo-wop.

The truth of 'Lazaretto' is not in its appearance bifrons (country and rock) but rather in the fact that it is, once again, a disc that some will like because it is somewhat experimental, artistically deconstructed, but easy access to some since it is considered trendiness rock'n'roll on which Jack WHITE successful since its inception ... The big urban connoted distortion Garage cohabits with pedal- connoted steel heartland prairie. A country modestly inspired with big stuff guitaristiquement hast thou seen me Jack WHITE does it better than anyone ... After several listens, it's always the title track, 'Lazaretto', which seems to me the acme album: the merger between a large rock delirium zeppelinnien country and fiddle on acid ... But I have a feeling of having heard that there was a long time, with the Jefferson Airplane circa 1971-1972 .

So, getting back to my Christmas presents, of course it does not seem fair to share a Jack WHITE disc, it would be the worst possible way, with a disk Jason Aldean, would it be his best (My Kinda Party or Night Train). There's always something with Jack WHITE when there is always the same with Jason Aldean.