Jack White is turning into Michael Jackson....

 ...and I think he knows it, cuz Jack's contemplating cutting off his face. Which he's done before, and with good cause. Jack knew when it was right to put White Stripes down, "preserving what is beautiful and special about the band." He made greater strides behind the boards (Loretta Lynn, Wanda Jackson), reinventing himself as an all encompassing, Rick Rubin style, genre spanning producer, cranking out countless one off singles and live albums on the fly from his Nashville based Third Man Records. Jack started two other bands, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. He even worked with Insane Clown Posse. 

Yes yes, Jack needed to forge ahead his separate identity free of the past, never forgetting it, yet rising above and beyond it. However, in all that time Jack never released any music under his name proper.  

That changes on April 23, 2012 when Jack White will release his solo debut, Blunderbuss.

"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." - Jack White

We got the first 7" single in this week at Jackpot Records.

 

'Love Interruption' is cold gospel soul, minimal in arrangement and sparse with instrumentation. Backup vocals by Ruby Amanfu add fire to White's seething declaration that "he won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me."

 

 

B-Side 'Machine Gun Silhouette' gets back down to business with a full band attack, going off on a hard driving country blues jam. Great drums, great recording. 

I'm looking forward to the full length now. I anticipate a raw record with slightly more refined influences.  But if those influences turn out to be associated with Quincy Jones, the 'Scream' video, and vitiligo, don't say I didn't warn ya.