At the turn of the century, Jack White was thinking hard about the blues. "One hundred years have passed since the beginning," says White, "and it was an illusion in my head at that time on a very small, was a blues scene from there." Sufficient to force the state to go ahead - but I had no illusions about the key first thought was interesting. "
Jack White: the 2005 Rolling Stone Cover Story
As it turned out, the vision was exactly what White Rock and roll needs. And make it sound fresh again in the process - with homespun, naked except for Popular Songs his skeletal minimalism of the White Stripes, has found a way to keep a link back to the music in the folk and blues roots, feeding the Stones, Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan found. "Everything I do is about 1,000 percent of the blues - the word is synonymous with truth for me," says White. "I could not play outside of nicki minaj songs the blues festival and I'm out, push the blue and white Stratocaster shit for the next 30 years. But it is the tip of the blues."
This article appeared on 24 December 7-2009 January 2010 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available online in the archive.
The legend embraced as an equal - White steps with Dylan, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page, among other municipalities. "You guys, the players are." Look at Popular Songs this cat, '"Richards says," So, when Jack and I had the chance to chat, we have found is an abiding love Ramblin' have 'Jack Elliott, the Everly Brothers and Arthur Crudup .... It 'a good person. "
Photo: The White Stripes on Tour in 2007
The strip does not seem to be a world-band their first top 100 songs win. "We knew what we were doing," says White, "if the test of time or when people like nothing more than a novelty would have been considered." But he was soon writing songs like "Seven Nation Army" - its Popular Songs riffs in a minor, written spontaneously to a sound check, is one of the most indelible musical hooks of the decade. There was also a song of football around the world: "I was sitting in a hotel room somewhere in Europe, and I've heard people sing the song in a bar a block away," says White. "I could not believe - I did not want that moment never end."
Jack White: the 2005 Rolling Stone Cover Story
As it turned out, the vision was exactly what White Rock and roll needs. And make it sound fresh again in the process - with homespun, naked except for Popular Songs his skeletal minimalism of the White Stripes, has found a way to keep a link back to the music in the folk and blues roots, feeding the Stones, Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan found. "Everything I do is about 1,000 percent of the blues - the word is synonymous with truth for me," says White. "I could not play outside of nicki minaj songs the blues festival and I'm out, push the blue and white Stratocaster shit for the next 30 years. But it is the tip of the blues."
This article appeared on 24 December 7-2009 January 2010 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available online in the archive.
The legend embraced as an equal - White steps with Dylan, Keith Richards and Jimmy Page, among other municipalities. "You guys, the players are." Look at Popular Songs this cat, '"Richards says," So, when Jack and I had the chance to chat, we have found is an abiding love Ramblin' have 'Jack Elliott, the Everly Brothers and Arthur Crudup .... It 'a good person. "
Photo: The White Stripes on Tour in 2007
The strip does not seem to be a world-band their first top 100 songs win. "We knew what we were doing," says White, "if the test of time or when people like nothing more than a novelty would have been considered." But he was soon writing songs like "Seven Nation Army" - its Popular Songs riffs in a minor, written spontaneously to a sound check, is one of the most indelible musical hooks of the decade. There was also a song of football around the world: "I was sitting in a hotel room somewhere in Europe, and I've heard people sing the song in a bar a block away," says White. "I could not believe - I did not want that moment never end."
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