Jack White has launched a new website focusing on the rocker’s non-music artistic endeavors, from furniture-making and directing to graphic design and sculpture. Jack White Art & Design, a multimedia website that went live Wednesday, serves as a catalog of White’s two decades of work in other artistic fields, many …
Read More »How Ken Burns Connected Every Dot of Country Music's Rich History in New Film
Ken Burns was in Dallas some years ago visiting a good friend, philanthropist Cappy McGarr. The filmmaker was working on his 2012 Depression-era miniseries, The Dust Bowl, and as usual for a workaholic who often has six or seven films brewing, Burns was turning over ideas for his next project. …
Read More »Margo Price Brings Vocal Firepower, Masterful Band to Billy Reid Shindig
In mid-2018, Margo Price played a triumphant, sold-out three-night stand at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, proving her power as a capable headliner. She’s gone on to even bigger stages in 2019, opening several shows on Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show Tour in July and August. But on Saturday night, she found …
Read More »Jack White on the Raconteurs' Return, 'Old Town Road' and His Friendship With Dylan
After making 2018’s wild Boarding House Reach, Jack White decided it was time to take a little pressure off himself. So he re-formed the Raconteurs — the band he put together in 2006, just before the dissolution of the White Stripes, with fellow Detroit musicians including co-frontman Brendan Benson. Their …
Read More »Hear Jack White Sing Blondie's 'One Way or Another' From Unearthed Cassette
A decades-old cassette sporting Jack White singing a cover of Blondie‘s “One Way or Another” has been unearthed by Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell. Blackwell uprooted the tape while digging through his own collection as part of Discogs’ Cassette Week, happening at independent music stores through October 13th. “In late …
Read More »Jack White Announces Vinyl-Only Live LP
Jack White will release a vinyl-only live LP documenting the Boarding House Reach tour as part of his Vault subscription service. The album, featured in Vault package Number 37, will include recordings from two intimate shows: the trek-opening March 16th set at the Blue Room at White’s Nashville label, Third …
Read More »Hear Jack White's Funky, Experimental New Song 'Corporation'
Jack White takes a deep-dive into funk on his experimental new song “Corporation.” The giddy instrumental highlights the musician’s upcoming third solo LP, Boarding House Reach, out March 23rd. White structures the track into two densely arranged grooves, layering clavinet, harmonized guitar leads, operatic shouts, congas, hip-hop-styled drums, stereo-panned shouts …
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