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Jack White’s Blunderbuss Thus Far….

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I haven’t been this enthusiastic to acquire an artist’s solo recording in years. I downloaded Jack White‘s Blunderbuss from Apple iTunes today. I opened this unique bottle of  wine with a wide-eyed rapture . I smelled the cork and poured the first song, “Missing Pieces” into my waiting glass. The tantalizing audio sensations swirled among my taste buds. I was breaking new ground and life would never be the same.

Songs about the aftermath of the heart can take on powerful meanings, the last stanza of “Missing Pieces” epitomizes how the dust hasn’t settled for Jack White and someone he was once with….

Sometimes someone controls everything about you

And when they tell you that they just can’t live without you

They ain’t lyin’, they’ll take pieces of you

And they’ll stand above you and walk away

That’s right and take a part of you with them

© 2012 Third Man Records

Jack White’s music is richly inventive, avidly presenting scenarios for the mind to process and interpret.  The collective body of work, Blunderbuss is edgy, challenging, yet  extremely well stated. You find yourself swept along a current of emotions gladly losing your trepidation in exchange for new-found meanings.

The next song, “Sixteen Saltines” grounds the listener in the sensations Jack White has premiered with his boy band. It rocks right out at ya. The song is comfortable and familiar due to the significant airplay its been receiving. A wine taster would call this “cleansing the palate” for more wine to be senses and tasted next…

“Freedom At 21″  the third track is a cosmic rocker, real upper stratosphere stuff. It keeps the fuse burning strong from the energy created by “Sixteen Saltines”.

The fourth track, “Love Interruption” commences next. This was the first song from Blunderbuss that I witnessed Jack White and his female band première on Saturday Night Live. When I hear it now I am inclined to compare it to the Robert Plant/ Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand.

Realize these are just four of the 13 tracks known as Blunderbuss but one should never rush the delicacy of fine wine, its best to give it time to breathe and savor, so this review will continue after more Blunderbuss wine tasting occurs over the next few days….

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Jack White – Forthcoming Solo Debut, Blunderbuss

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I love the risks that Jack White takes with his music. I caught his appearance on SNL, this past Saturday night as he performed “Love Interruption”. I was intellectually stimulated by the juxtaposition of the lyrics interspersed with the music I heard him and his female band play. I find Jack White to be inventive in his style, engaging to watch and refreshing to listen to in a world of prefabricated sound.

Here is “Love Interruption”, the first of two songs he did.

In a statement, White said that Blunderbuss is “an album I couldn’t have released until now. I’ve put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas.” – Rolling Stone Magazine 2012

Jack White is an artist I want to understand more in-depth. I’ve yet to see him perform live in person. I’ve added him to my must see in concert list. I’ll be watching for any eventuality of a  concert of his near me this year. The few times I have watched him recorded live, both on SNL and with the Rolling Stones in the movie filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City Shine a Light strengthen my conviction towards his unique approach. I love to witness original talent that unfolds before us creating a stoic rapture.

Blunderbuss

The new album Blunderbuss has captivated my interest. I’ve added it to my wish list. I wonder if Jack White and Third Man Records/Columbia plan to issue a unique vinyl collector’s item for Record Store Day 2012 (April 21, 2012) with the release of Blunderbuss being on April 24th?

Here’s what tells me they might….

Jack White said: “I think it’s high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, guardians, and neighborhood ne’er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is. I trust no one who hasn’t time for music. What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation orphaned from one of life’s great beauties. And to the record stores, artists, labels, dj’s, and journalists; we’re all in this together. Show respect for the tangible music that you’ve dedicated your careers and lives to, and help It from becoming nothing more than disposable digital data.”

Here is the second song he played on SNL with a male band, “Sixteen Saltines”.

Complete track listing is below:

1. Missing Pieces
2. Sixteen Saltines
3. Freedom At 21
4. Love Interruption
5. Blunderbuss
6. Hypocritical Kiss
7. Weep Themselves To Sleep
8. I’m Shakin’
9. Trash Tongue Talker
10. Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
11. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep
12. On And On And On
13. Take Me With You When You Go

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