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Jack White

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Audio interviews

The Raconteurs (2006)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 March 2006

Raconteurs Jack White, Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence on how they got together, making the first album, and their shared love of Led Zeppelin

File format: mp3; file size: 41.3mb, interview length: 43' 04" sound quality: ***

Jack White (2009)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 August 2009

Jack White goes way back to his Detroit childhood, the evolution of the White Stripes, and through to his current workaholic agenda as the Dead Weather's drummer.

File format: mp3; file size: 53.6mb, interview length: 55' 49" sound quality: ***

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Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose

Review and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, June 2004

Awesome rebirth of original Country Queen, produced and arranged by the White Stripes' Jack White. ...

Jacks White: Is Jack White Trying To Kill Music Journalism?

Comment by David Bennun, The Guardian, 18 March 2008

The new Raconteurs album is to be released without pre-publicity. Is this a gesture of fairness to the fans, or an attempt to silence the ...

Music, Label, Retail: Jack White's Vertical Integration

Report and Interview by Alan Light, The New York Times, 12 March 2009

JACK WHITE, the meticulous frontman of the color-coordinated White Stripes, has always been known for his attention to detail. So it was no surprise to ...

Q&A with Jack White, The Dead Weather

Interview by Kimberly Mack, Music Connection, June 2009

JACK WHITE HATES to wait. ...

"There's a Voice in Me Saying Slow Down": Jack White Looks Back

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, November 2009

WE'RE COMING to the end of a punishingly intense set by the Dead Weather, the second side-project band formed by Jack White of the White ...

Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud

Film/DVD/TV Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, February 2010

Riveting doc about the magical powers of the electric guitar, starring Jack White, Jimmy Page and the Edge. ...

When In Rome… with Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi, Jack White and Norah Jones

Interview by Alan Light, Relix, May 2011

ATHENS, GEORGIA IT'S 1995, maybe 1996. Brian Burton is a freshman at the University of Georgia, an aspiring moviemaker, taking an "Introduction to Film" course. Burton ...

Exit Wounds: Jack White: Blunderbuss (XL)

Review by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, May 2012

Jack White certainly isn't gunning for his ex, but their split seems to have fired some of his most riveting work yet ...

What's Jack White made of?

Comment by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 2 May 2012

White never stops working and everything he works with turns to gold. ...

Jack White: With Blunderbuss, Jack White aims for new beginning

Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 2012

The former White Stripes leader takes his first solo album through Memphis for soul and Nashville for honky tonk. Many of the album's songs are ...

Jack White's secret London gig: surgical masks, dry ice and disease

Live Review by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 3 July 2014

Late on Wednesday night, Jack White's fans were summoned to a dark 'medical research centre' off the Strand for a sinister immersive theatre show with ...

Manna for Fans: The history of the hidden track in music

Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 January 2015

From inner groove loops to absurd backmasking, artists have long found ways to embed secret songs, cryptic writings and coded messages in their albums. ...

Jack White: Boarding House Reach

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 18 March 2018

WHO DOES Jack White think he is? Well, judging by the cover to Boarding House Reach, a smoothly airbrushed simulacrum of Keanu Reeves, which rather ...

see also Dead Weather, The

see also Raconteurs, The

see also White Stripes, The

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