{"id":5696,"date":"2012-04-24T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:23:11","slug":"jack-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/jack-white\/","title":{"rendered":"JACK WHITE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"J<\/strong>ACK WHITE<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Blunderbuss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Third Man\/XL\/Columbia]<\/p>\n

You knew someone as restlessly prolific as Jack White would get around to it eventually. After six albums with the White Stripes, two each with the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, collaborations with everyone from Loretta Lynn to Conan O\u2019Brien and innumerable moves as producer and record-label entrepreneur, the pride of Detroit (and more recently of Nashville) has finally released a solo album. White wrote, recorded and produced Blunderbuss<\/em>, which fleshes out a sound that the later White Stripes albums only hinted at. These are fuller arrangements that move well beyond the gut-punch garage-blues the Stripes first staked out 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

In fact, Blunderbuss<\/em> is an eclectic album, with elements of hazy country, vintage-style Tin Pan Alley pop, weird jazz riffs and, of course, scorching rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. White gives keyboards a prominent role, alternating between jaunty organ riffs like the one on opener \u201cMissing Pieces\u201d and the bright piano parts that twinkle on \u201cHip (Eponymous) Poor Boy\u201d and swell through \u201cHypocritical Kiss.\u201d And he doesn\u2019t neglect his guitar playing, dialing in his trademark shrieking power-drill tone for a seething solo on the gospel-flavored stomper \u201cI\u2019m Shakin\u2019,\u201d and ripping through \u201cSixteen Saltines\u201d with a massive, snarling riff he punctuates with a \u201cWoo!\u201d With its mixture of sounds and styles, Blunderbuss<\/em> is the first White project that collects the varied facets of his career into one all-encompassing portrait of the artist. It\u2019s an epic work\u2014one that reinforces his reputation for wide-ranging musical explorations, backed by an abundance of talent. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JACK WHITE Blunderbuss [Third Man\/XL\/Columbia] You knew someone as restlessly prolific as Jack White would get around to it eventually. After six albums with the White Stripes, two each with the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, collaborations with everyone from Loretta Lynn to Conan O\u2019Brien and innumerable moves as producer and record-label entrepreneur, the pride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3409,3408,3303,3410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}