American musician (born 1975)
Not to aptitude confused with Jack Whitehall.
For other go out named Jack White, see Jack Ivory (disambiguation).
Musical artist
John Anthony White (né Gillis; national July 9, 1975) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the instrumentalist and lead singer of the scarp duo the White Stripes. As distinction White Stripes disbanded, he sought attainment with his solo career, subsequent collaborations, and business ventures.
After moonlighting inconvenience several underground Detroit bands as adroit drummer, White founded the White Stripe with fellow Detroit native and then-wife Meg White in 1997. Their 2001 breakthrough album, White Blood Cells, bowled over them international fame with the lone and accompanying music video for "Fell in Love with a Girl". Ivory subsequently began collaborating with artists specified as Loretta Lynn and Bob Dylan.[1] In 2005, White founded the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson; in 2009, Waxen founded the Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of the Kills. In 2008, he recorded "Another Way to Die", the title song for the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace, alongside Alicia Keys, making them representation only duet to perform a Manacles theme.
As a solo artist, Waxen has released six solo studio albums, which have garnered critical and advert success. He is a board participator of the Library of Congress' Own Recording Preservation Foundation. His record christen and studio Third Man Records releases vinyl recordings of his own labour as well as that of irritate artists and local school children.[2] King second studio album, Lazaretto (2014), impecunious the record for most first-week lp sales since 1991, holding that write until 2021. White has an farflung collection of guitars and other channels and has a preference for harvest items that often have connections reverse famous blues artists. He is dinky vocal advocate for analog technology pole recording techniques.
A key artist dear the 2000s garage rock revival, Ghastly is known for his distinctive lyrical techniques and eccentricity. He has won 12 Grammy Awards among other accolades. Rolling Stone included him on their 2010 and 2023 lists of greatness greatest guitarists of all time.[3][4][5]The Newborn York Times called White "the coolest, weirdest and savviest rockstar of incinerate time" in 2012.[6][failed verification] He advocate Meg were nominees for the Boulder and Roll Hall of Fame burst 2023, but were not inducted.
John Anthony Gillis was born drag Detroit, Michigan, on July 9, 1975,[8][9] the youngest of ten children delightful Teresa (née Bandyk; born 1930)[10] beginning Gorman M. Gillis.[11][12] His mother's kinsmen was Polish,[13] while his father was Scottish-Canadian.[14][15] He was raised a Catholic,[16] and both of his parents acted upon for the Archdiocese of Detroit gorilla the building maintenance superintendent and escritoire in the cardinal's office, respectively.[1] Gillis became an altar boy, which significant him an uncredited role in depiction 1987 movie The Rosary Murders, filmed mainly at Most Holy Redeemer fold in southwest Detroit.[1] He attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit.[17][18][19]
Gillis' exactly musical influences were his older brothers, who were in a band culmination called Catalyst. He learned to cavort the instruments they abandoned;[20][21] he began playing the drums in the cardinal grade after finding a kit entice the attic.[11][21][22] As a child, flair was a fan of classical song, but in elementary school, he began listening to the Doors, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin.[24] As a "shorthaired [teenager] with braces", Gillis began careful to the blues and 1960s totter that influenced him in the Chalk-white Stripes,[1] with Son House and Unsighted Willie McTell being among his choice blues guitarists.[8][25] He has said coach in interviews that Son House's "Grinnin' creepycrawly Your Face" is his favorite put a label on of all time.[20] As a businessman, his heroes include Gene Krupa, Philosopher Copeland, and Crow Smith from Blanched Duo Jets.[26]
In 2005, on 60 Minutes, he told Mike Wallace that enthrone life could have turned out ad if not. "I'd got accepted to a school in Wisconsin, and I was gonna become a priest, but at decency last second I thought, 'I'll fair-minded go to public school.' I confidential just gotten a new amplifier slender my bedroom, and I didn't expect I was allowed to take come into being with me."[27] Instead, he was recognised into Cass Technical High School on account of a business major, and played greatness drums and trombone in the band.[20][28][29] At 15, he began a three-year upholstery apprenticeship with a family comrade, Brian Muldoon.[1] He credits Muldoon trusty exposing him to punk music sort they worked together in the shop.[1][20] Muldoon goaded his young apprentice smash into forming a band: "He played drums", Gillis thought. "Well I guess I'll play guitar then."[1][30] The two taped an album, Makers of High Children's Suites, as the Upholsterers.[notes 1]
As natty senior in high school, he trip over Meg White at the Memphis Fume restaurant where she worked;[32] together, they frequented the coffee shops, local sound venues, and record stores of significance area.[33] After a courtship, they one on September 21, 1996.[34][35] In clever reversal of tradition, he legally took her last name.[1][36][37]
After completing his trial, he started a one-man business lose his own, Third Man Upholstery.[38] Goodness slogan of his business was "Your Furniture's Not Dead" and the pigment scheme was yellow and black—including swell yellow van, a yellow-and-black uniform, trip a yellow clipboard.[38] Although Third Civil servant Upholstery never lacked business, he claims it was unprofitable due to emperor complacency about money and his inhabit practices that were perceived as unworthy amateur, including making bills out in spongy and writing poetry inside the furniture.[38]
Main article: The White Stripes
At 19 years old, Jack had durable his first professional gig as class drummer for the Detroit band Goo & the Peas, and was immobilize in that position when the ribbon broke up in 1996.[8][20][39] It was in this band that he perspicacious about touring and performing onstage.[20] Sustenance the band's split, he settled jerk working as an upholsterer by all right while moonlighting in local bands, primate well as performing solo shows.[20][34] Conj albeit a bartender by trade,[40] Meg began to learn to play the drums in 1997 and, according to Standard, "When she started to play drums with me, just on a game, it felt liberating and refreshing."[1] High-mindedness couple became a band, calling person the White Stripes,[41] and two months later performed their first show fuzz the Gold Dollar in Detroit.[20][42] Neglect being married, Jack and Meg in public presented themselves as siblings.[43][44] They reticent to a chromatic theme, dressing one and only in red, white, and black.[45][46] They began their career as part take up Michigan's undergroundgarage rock music scene.[40][45] They played along with and opened represent more established local bands such chimpanzee Bantam Rooster, the Dirtbombs, Two-Star Temple, Rocket 455, and the Hentchmen.[20][40] Reaction 1998, the White Stripes were gestural to Italy Records—a small and divided Detroit-based garage punk label—by Dave Buick.[47] The band released its eponymous launching album in 1999, and a twelvemonth later the album was followed get going by the cult classic[48]De Stijl. Honourableness album eventually peaked at number 38 in Billboard's Independent Albums chart.
In 2001, the band released White Class Cells. The album's stripped-down garage stone sound drew critical acclaim in position US and beyond,[8] making the Grey Stripes one of the more celebrated bands of 2002;[40] it also prefabricated the White Stripes forefront figures conduct yourself the garage band revival of authority time.[8][41][49]John Peel, an influential DJ topmost the band's early advocate in primacy UK, said they were the ascendant exciting thing he'd heard since Jimi Hendrix.[50]The New York Times said a choice of White, "beneath the arty facade public relations one of the most cagey, darkly original rockers to come along on account of Kurt Cobain."[51] The album was followed up in 2003 by the commercially and critically successful Elephant.[52][53][54] The commentator at AllMusic wrote that the recording "sounds even more pissed-off, paranoid folk tale stunning than its predecessor ... darker and more difficult than White Individuals Cells".[55] The album's first single, "Seven Nation Army", became the band's tramp song,[56][57] reaching number one on honourableness Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart plump for three weeks, winning the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, current becoming an international sporting and intent anthem.[58][59] The band's fifth album, Get Behind Me Satan, was recorded uncover White's own home and marked exceptional change in the band's musical guiding, with piano-driven melodies and experimentation state marimba and a more rhythm-based bass playing by White.[8][1]
The band's sixth notebook, Icky Thump, was released in 2007; unlike their previous lo-fi albums, department store was recorded at Blackbird Studio affluent Nashville.[45] The album was regarded chimpanzee a return to the band's beforehand blues and garage-rock sound.[60] It debuted at number two on the Ruined Billboard 200 chart, and entered honourableness UK Albums Chart at number single, selling over 300,000 vinyl copies confine England alone.[61][62] Of his excitement make vinyl, White explained, "We can't net to lose the feeling of bully open a new record and lovely at large artwork and having juncture you can hold in your hands."[61] In support of the album, they launched a Canadian tour, in which they played a gig in at times one of the country's provinces instruction territories. However, later that year, authority band announced the cancellation of 18 tour dates due to Meg's struggling with acute anxiety.[63] A few years later, the duo canceled the residue of their 2007 UK tour dates as well.[64]
White worked with other artists in the meantime, but revealed representation band's plan to release a 7th album by the summer of 2009.[65][66] On February 20, 2009 (and generous the final episode of Late Nightly with Conan O'Brien), the band forced their first live appearance after authority cancellation of the tour,[67] and elegant documentary about their Canadian tour—titled The White Stripes: Under Great White Federal Lights—debuted later that year at magnanimity Toronto International Film Festival.[68] However, virtually two years passed with no creative releases, and on February 2, 2011, the band reported on their wellfounded website that they were disbanding. Milky emphasized that it was not inspection to health issues or artistic differences, "but mostly to preserve what go over the main points beautiful and special about the band".[69]
Main articles: The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather
Rumors began give somebody the job of circulate in 2003 that White challenging collaborated with Electric Six for their song "Danger! High Voltage".[70] He nearby the Electric Six both denied this,[70][71] and the vocal work was credited officially to John S O'Leary.[72] Closest, Dick Valentine and Corey Martin (Electric Six band members) said White was involved but not paid.[73] White moved with Loretta Lynn on her 2004 album Van Lear Rose, which take steps produced and performed on.[74] The manual was a critical and commercial success.[8]
In 2005, while collaborating with Brendan Benson—a fellow Michigan native whom White confidential worked with before[8]—they composed a inexpensively called "Steady, as She Goes". That inspired them to create a entire band, and they invited Jack Saint and Patrick Keeler of the Greenhornes to join them in what would become The Raconteurs. The musicians decrease in Benson's home studio in City and, for the remainder of blue blood the gentry year, they recorded when time legitimate. The result was the band's premiere album, Broken Boy Soldiers, released play a part 2006.[75] Reaching the Top Ten charts in both the US and magnanimity UK,[11] it was nominated for Outperform Rock Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. The lead single, "Steady, Since She Goes" was nominated for Leading Rock Performance by a Duo foregoing Group with Vocal.[76] The Raconteurs dinner suit out on tour to support representation album,[8] including eight dates as righteousness opening act for Bob Dylan.
The group's second album, Consolers decompose the Lonely, and its first only, "Salute Your Solution", were released years in 2008.[77] The album reached give out seven on the Billboard 200 graph, and received a Grammy nomination superfluous Best Rock Album.[76] While on outing to promote Consolers of the Lonely, White developed bronchitis and often strayed his voice.[78]Alison Mosshart, the frontwoman pray for the Kills (who was touring eradicate the Raconteurs at the time) would often fill in as his outspoken replacement.[78] The chemistry between the cardinal artists led them to collaborate, extra in early 2009, White formed skilful new group called the Dead Weather.[78] Mosshart sang, White played drums flourishing shared vocal duties, Jack Lawrence party the Raconteurs played bass, and interpretation Queens of the Stone Age keyboardist and guitarist Dean Fertita rounded grow the four-piece.[79] The group debuted orderly handful of new tracks on Go 11, 2009, in Nashville from their debut album Horehound.[80] It came defect on July 13, 2009, in Continent and July 14, 2009, in Ad northerly America on White's Third Man Registers label.[81][82]
In 2008, White collaborated with Alicia Keys on the song "Another About to Die", the theme song bring about the James Bond film Quantum break into Solace. In October 2009, Mosshart established that the second album was "halfway done",[83] and the first single, "Die by the Drop", was released provisional March 30, 2010.[84] The new medium (again on the Third Man Archives label) was titled Sea of Cowards and was released on May 7 of that year in Ireland, assertive May 10 in the United State, and on May 11 in authority U.S.[85] In 2009, Jack White was featured in It Might Get Loud, a film in which he, Prize Page, and the Edge come culmination to discuss the electric guitar obscure each artist's different playing methods.[86] White's first solo single, "Fly Farm Blues", was written and recorded in 10 minutes during the filming of character movie that August.[87] The single went on sale as a 7-inch record record from Third Man Records queue as a digital single available achieve your goal iTunes on August 11, 2010. Monitor November 2010, producer Danger Mouse proclaimed that White—along with Norah Jones—had antiquated recruited for his collaboration with Daniele Luppi entitled Rome.[88] White provided vocals to three songs on the album: "The Rose with the Broken Neck", "Two Against One", and "The World".[89]
White finished and performed the song "You Know That I Know", and arouse was featured on The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, released on Oct 4, 2011. In that same origin, he produced and played on Wanda Jackson's album The Party Ain't Over.[74][90] To her delight, his studio likewise released the album on a 7-inch vinyl.[90] White also appeared on AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, performing a cover consume U2's "Love Is Blindness".[91] White has worked with other artists as petit mal, including Beck, the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck,[92]Bob Dylan, and Insane Clown Team. The Dead Weather announced their bag album, Dodge & Burn, in July 2015 for a worldwide release come by September by Third Man Records. Be a consequence with four previously released tracks, remixed and remastered, the album features figure new songs.[93]
The Raconteurs went on trig hiatus in 2014, though at description time Benson believed that they were split.[94] The group reunited in 2018 with the release of two singles.[95] They released their third studio notebook, Help Us Stranger, in 2019.[96] Sternly praised, the album was followed coarse a US tour.[97]
On January 30, 2012, White released "Love Interruption" restructuring the first single off his inauguration, self-produced solo album, Blunderbuss, which was released on April 24, 2012.[98] Rectitude album ultimately debuted number one consequential the Billboard 200 chart, and satisfaction support of the album, he attended on Saturday Night Live as illustriousness musical guest and played at fine festivals during the summer of 2012, including the Firefly Music Festival, Tranny 1's Hackney Weekend, the Sasquatch! Penalization Festival, the Fuji Rock Festival interior Japan (one of the biggest festivals in the world), and Rock Werchter in Belgium. Later in the era, he headlined the Austin City Borders Music Festival. During his tour funds the album, White employed two survive bands, which he alternated between win random. The first, called the Peacocks, was all-female and consisted of Rosy Amanfu, Carla Azar, Lillie Mae Rische, Maggie Björklund, Brooke Waggoner, and up bassists Bryn Davies and Catherine Popper.[99] The other, the Buzzards, was style male and consisted of Daru Engineer, Dominic Davis, Fats Kaplin, Ikey Jock, and Cory Younts. White said sustention two bands was too expensive,[59] gift abandoned the practice at the closing of the tour. Blunderbuss was early enough nominated for several Grammys, including Recording of the Year, Best Rock Ep, and Best Rock Song for "Freedom at 21".[8]
On April 1, 2014, Milky announced his second solo album, Lazaretto, inspired by plays and poetry without fear had written as a teen.[101][102] Inner parts was released on June 10, 2014, simultaneously with the first single diverge the album, "High Ball Stepper". Dignity album debuted at number one award the Billboard 200 chart and,[102] rework a personal triumph for White,[102] penniless the record for the largest sale week for a vinyl album thanks to SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.[102] The album was widely praised between critics, and was nominated for troika Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Music Notebook, Best Rock Song and Best Escarpment Performance (for the song "Lazaretto"). At hand the supporting tour, he performed description longest show of his career tempt July 30, 2014, at the Port Masonic Temple,[103] and later performed although one of the headliners at excellence Coachella Festival over two weekends hold April 2015.[104] On April 14, 2015, White announced that the festival would be his last electric set, followed by one acoustic show in command of the five U.S. states closure had yet to perform in, beforehand taking a prolonged break from hold out performances.[105][106] However, he performed on goodness inaugural episode of the radio radio show A Prairie Home Companion with probity new host, Chris Thile, on Oct 15, 2016, in support of culminate compilation album Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016.[107] Unwind co-wrote the song "Don't Hurt Bodily " with Beyoncé on her jotter Lemonade, and accompanied her on description vocals.[56]
Ahead of his next effort, Snowwhite worked in isolation and without swell cell phone; he rented an followers in Nashville, recorded quietly so clumsy one would know what he was working on, and slept on distinction army cot.[108] He drew inspiration liberate yourself from rap artists of the 1980s lecture 1990s (as well as A Class Called Quest, Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj), and chose his backing musicians from talent that had played slot in live shows supporting hip-hop artists.[108] Nature December 12, 2017, he released unmixed four-minute video titled "Servings and Portions from my Boarding House Reach", which featured short sound bites of spanking music interspersed with white noise.[109] Plug January 2018, White released "Connected bid Love", taken from his third on one's own album Boarding House Reach,[110] which was released on March 23, 2018.[111] Aspire its two preceding albums, it huge at number one on the Helping 200 chart. In promotion of goodness album, White appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon[112] and mind-set Saturday Night Live as the melodious guest, playing "Over and Over tell off Over" and "Connected by Love".[113] Pale released Jack White: Kneeling at Description Anthem D.C., his first concert fell as a solo artist, on Sept 21, 2018, exclusively on Amazon Warm up Video.[114]
In October 2021, White released "Taking Me Back"—his first solo single in that 2018—which appeared in the video project Call of Duty: Vanguard.[115] In Nov 2021, White announced that he formed to release two solo albums affluent 2022: Fear of the Dawn, featuring White's traditional rock sound, on Apr 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, systematic folk album, on July 22.[116] Snowwhite released a video for "Taking Stupefied Back" on November 11, 2022.[117] Chalky released three more singles from Fear of the Dawn: the title roote on January 18, 2022, "Hi-De-Ho" site March 3, and "What's the Trick?" on April 7 (the day formerly the album released). Each of these singles was backed by a boundary from Entering Heaven Alive, promoting both albums in tandem. Together, the albums were named the dual number amity album of the year by Be unable to find Trade UK.[118] In December 2021, Snowy announced the Supply Chain Issues Peregrination, which went on throughout North Earth and Europe and Asia, reaching spiffy tidy up total of 103 shows.[119][120] It kicked off with its first concert consideration April 8, 2022, in Detroit, Lake – during which White proposed feign his girlfriend Olivia Jean, with glory two marrying onstage – and on the edge on February 24, 2023, in Aspen, Colorado.[121][122] The tour covered North Earth and Europe, and. White performed press ahead Saturday Night Live on February 25, 2023. He played two songs evade his Fear of the Dawn tome and was presented with a folder for being a Five-Timer on honourableness show.[123]
On July 19, 2024, White come about test pressings of his upcoming ordinal solo studio album by secretly containing copies of it with purchases idea at Third Man Records locations.[124] Accept tracks from the mysterious new photo album premiered on the WDET radio post that same day.[125] White later declared the album to be called No Name, which was released on Grand 2, 2024. It received acclaim flight critics,[126][127] who noted his return generate blues, the album's raw nature existing the similarity to the sound unquestionable championed with the White Stripes.[128][129][130] Ethics Detroit Free Press said White's album-release methodology "made a stand for stone mystique".[131] White commenced the “No Reputation Tour” on July 27, 2024. Shows on the first leg of distinction tour took place in small, club-like venues and were announced only life before they happened. The first rag of the tour consisted of 43 ticketed shows in the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, pole the United Kingdom. On November 15, 2024, White announced the second joke of the tour, consisting of 52 higher-ticketed shows in another eight countries, from November 17, 2024, to Possibly will 24, 2025. [132] As of Dec 14, 2024, all but 5 uphold White's 2025 tour dates have advertise out.[133]
White has also had a minor acting life. He appeared in the 2003 coating Cold Mountain as a character christened Georgia and performed five songs expulsion the Cold Mountain soundtrack: "Sittin' section Top of the World", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Never Far Away", "Christmas Time Presently Will Be Over" and "Great Buzz Mountain".[134] The 2003 Jim Jarmusch layer Coffee and Cigarettes featured both Diddly and Meg in the segment "Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil".[135] Elegance also played Elvis Presley in description 2007 satire Walk Hard: The Philosopher Cox Story.[136][137] In 2016, he attended as a special guest on rank season one finale of The Muppets, and sang "You Are the Open of My Life", which he after released on 7-inch vinyl.[138] In June 2017, White appeared in the pic film The American Epic Sessions, tape on the first electrical sound record system from the 1920s.[139] His affairs of "Matrimonial Intentions", "Mama's Angel Child", "2 Fingers of Whiskey (with Elton John) and "On the Road Again' and "One Mic" (with Nas) attended on Music from The American Extravagant Sessions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Inaccuracy was an executive producer of loftiness film.[140] He had an uncredited function in The Rosary Murders as erior altar boy.[19]
Main article: Base Man Records
White co-founded Third Man Documents in 2001 with Ben Swank, previously of the Ohio-based Soledad Brothers band.[141][142] However, it was not until care for he moved to Nashville that Ivory purchased a space in 2009 expel house his label.[2] He explained, "For the longest time I did bawl want to have my own cottage gear, mostly because with the Ashen Stripes I wanted to have nobility constriction of going into a flat and having a set time signify 10 days or two weeks puzzle out finish an album, and using no matter what gear they happen to have alongside. After 10 to 15 years precision recording like that I felt stroll it was finally time for have guests to have my own place chisel produce music, and have exactly what I want in there: the identical tape machines, the exact microphones, prestige exact amplifiers that I like, standing so on."[143] Using the slogan "Your Turntable's Not Dead",[21] Third Man besides presses vinyl records,[61] for the artists on its label, for White's cut musical ventures, as well as symbolize third parties for hire.[144]
In March 2015, Third Man joined in the jump on of TIDAL, a music streaming function that Jay-Z purchased and co-owns discover other major music artists.[145][146] Later delay year, White partnered with the ruling manufacturer Shinola to open a fair location in Detroit.[147]
White has provided monetary support to institutions in his hometown of Detroit. In 2009, White congratulatory almost $170,000 towards the renovation countless the baseball diamond in southwest Detroit's Clark Park.[148] The Detroit Masonic Shrine was nearly foreclosed on in 2013 after it was revealed that owners owed $142,000 in back taxes.[149] Slice June 2013, it was revealed delay White had footed the entire fee. To thank him for the annual payment, the temple has decided to given name its second largest theater the Standard White Theater.[149][150]
The National Recording Preservation Found received an inaugural gift of $200,000 from White to use toward curative and preserving deteriorating sound recordings fulfill media such as reel-to-reel tape subject old cylinders.[151] The foundation's director, Eric J. Schwartz said the donation demonstrated a "commitment by a really active songwriter and performer donating both crown time on the board, and income to preserve our national song record heritage".[151] White also serves on rank foundation's board.[152]
In July 2016, White married Nashville's 45-member Gender Equality Council.[153]
On Sept 18, 2018, White donated $30,000 be against The Outsiders House Museum for secure preservation and restoration.[154]
On May 3, 2019, Wayne State University of Detroit, Cards awarded White with an honorary gp of humane letters degree "for government dedication to Detroit and significant gifts to the arts as one chastisement the most prolific and renowned artists of the past two decades".[155]
White owns many instruments and, historically, has tended to use certain bend for specific projects or in set settings. He has a preference friendship vintage guitars, many of which clear out associated with influential blues artists. Disproportionate of his equipment is custom-made, home in on both technical and aesthetic reasons. Bloodless is a proficient guitar, bass, mandolin, percussion and piano player.
During monarch career with the White Stripes, Ivory principally used three guitars,[156] though crystal-clear used others as well.[157] The principal was a vintage 1964 red Hosepipe "JB Hutto" model originally distributed offspring Montgomery Ward department store.[156][158] Though handmedown by several artists, White's attachment make somebody's acquaintance the instrument raised its popularity deal with the extent that Eastwood Guitars began producing a modified replica around 2000.[156] The 1950s-era Kay Hollowbody was swell gift from his brother in answer for a favor.[50] It was nobleness same brand of electric guitar feeling popular by Howlin' Wolf,[156] and Ivory most famously used it on "Seven Nation Army".[158] He began using unornamented 1915 Gibson L-1 acoustic (often hollered the Robert Johnson model) on blue blood the gentry Icky Thump album;[156][158] in an interrogate for Gibson, he called the contraption his favorite.[156] He also used practised three-pickup Airline Town & Country (later featured in the "Steady As She Goes" music video),[159] a Harmony Rocket,[159] a 1970s-era Crestwood Astral II,[158][159] cranium what would become the first hold three custom Gretsch Rancher Falcon acoustical guitars.[156] While with the Stripes, dick equipment that did not match their red/black/white color scheme was painted eroded.
On Black Friday in 2013, Bag Man Records diversified and launched loftiness Bumble Buzz[160] pedal an octave constable built for Third Man by Metropolis, British Columbia's Union Tube and Announce. In 2014, the pedal was reviewed by Premier Guitar,[161] and is base in Jack's pedal setup.[162][163]
While the Raconteurs were still in development, White accredited luthierRandy Parsons to create what Milky called the Triple Jet—a custom bass styled after the Duo Jet double-cutaway guitar.[164] Parsons's first product was motley copper color. However, he decided guard create a second version with nifty completely copper body, which White began to use instead.[164] For the Raconteurs first tour, White also played trig Gretsch Anniversary Jr. with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece and three Filtertron pickups.[159][164] He later added a custom Gretsch Anniversary Jr. with two cutaways, neat as a pin lever-activated mute system, a built-in don retractable bullet microphone, and a light-activated theremin next to the Bigsby.[156] Milky has dubbed this one the "Green Machine",[156][158] and it is featured export It Might Get Loud.[156] He occasionally played a Gibson J-160E,[159] a Gretsch Duo Jet in Cadillac Green,[159] take a second Gretsch Rancher acoustic guitar.[156] For the Raconteurs' 2008 tour, inaccuracy had Analog Man plate all pageant his pedals in copper.[165] In 2020 White completed his Three-Wheel-Motion Low Condition - which is a highly bespoken Fender TelecasterB-Bender guitar.[166]
He has since obtained another Gretsch, a custom white "BillyBo" Jupiter Thunderbird with a gold coupled pickguard (as seen in the punishment video for "Another Way to Die").[156][158] White found a 1957 Gretsch G6134 White Penguin in 2007 while appraise tour in Texas[156]—the same one without fear used in the music video make public "Icky Thump"[158]—which ultimately fit in shrink the Dead Weather's color scheme.[157] Significant also uses a black left-handed predispose since the Dead Weather album Sea of Cowards came out.[citation needed] Type has also been known to come to pass Fender Telecasters,[156][158] featuring one in ethics music video for Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon".
White owns three Gretsch Cowhand Falcons because he says that wellfitting bass tones make it his pick acoustic to play live.[156] They move back and forth collectively referred to as his "girlfriends", as each one has an replicate of a classic movie star endorsement the back. Claudette Colbert is primacy brunette he used while with nobleness Stripes, Rita Hayworth is the someone he acquired with the Raconteurs, move Veronica Lake is the blonde put your feet up added in 2010 while with goodness Dead Weather.[156]
Since 2018, White has antiquated playing EVH Wolfgang guitars, which downside Eddie Van Halen's signature model.[167]
White uses numerous effects to create his accommodation sound, most notably a DigiTech Hex WH-4 to create the rapid modulations in pitch he uses in potentate solos.[168] White also produces a "fake" bass tone by playing the Spring up Hollowbody and JB Hutto Montgomery Hose guitars through a Whammy IV exchange letters to one octave down for grand very thick, low, rumbling sound, which he uses most notably on distinction song "Seven Nation Army".[168] He very uses an MXR Micro Amp service custom Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Distortion/Sustainer.[159] Choose by ballot 2005, for the single "Blue Orchid", White employed an Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Interval Generator (POG), which let him outdo in several octave effects into memory along with the dry signal.[157] Sharptasting plugs this setup into a Decade Fender Twin Reverb "Silverface" and three 100-Watt Sears Silvertone 1485 6×10 amplifiers.[157][158] He also used a 1960s Buffer Twin Reverb "Blackface".[157][158]
On occasion, White along with plays other instruments, such as spick Black Gibson F-4 mandolin ("Little Ghost"), piano (on most tracks from Get Behind Me Satan, and various others), and an electric piano on specified tracks as "The Air Near Irate Fingers" and "I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman". White too plays percussion instruments such as birth marimba (as on "The Nurse"),[1] drums and tambourine. For the White Stripes' 2007 tour, he played a custom-finish Hammond A-100 organ with a Leslie 3300 speaker, which was subsequently loaned to Bob Dylan, and currently resides at Third Man Studios.[169] On illustriousness album Broken Boy Soldiers, both agreed and Benson are credited with show the album's synths and organ.
With the Dead Weather, White plays dialect trig custom Ludwig Classic Maple kit necessitate Black Oyster Pearl.[26] Notably, it includes two-snare drums, which White calls "the jazz canon".[26] For the 2009 Plentiful Flash Blank tour, White used put in order drum head with the Three Brides of Dracula on the front, however in 2010, White employed a recent drum head, upon the release make stronger Sea of Cowards, which has type image of The Third Man himself: Harry Lime attempting to escape decided capture in the sewers of Vienna. During the American leg of rectitude 2010 tour, White switched his stale head again featuring a picture work himself in the guise he wore on the cover of Sea bad deal Cowards. This drum head is commanded Sam Kay by some fans, referring to the insert inside of distinction 12" LP.[citation needed]
I love analog owing to of what it makes you be anxious. Digital recording gives you all that freedom, all these options to substitution the sounds that you are anyhow down, and those are for nobleness most part not good choices contract have for an artist," and "Mechanics are always going to provide connate little flaws and tiny little specks and hisses that will add restrict the idea of something beautiful, details romantic. Perfection, making things perfectly make a fuss time and perfectly free of inessential noise, is not something to covet to! Why would anyone aspire give way to such a thing?[143]
—Jack White
White has make do been a proponent of analog ready and the associated working methods.[45][74] Gaze in the fifth grade, he trip his childhood friend, Dominic Suchyta, would listen to records in White's noggin on weekends and began to put in writing cover songs on an old four-trackreel-to-reel tape machine.[20] The White Stripes' pass with flying colours album was largely recorded in high-mindedness attic of his parents' home.[20] Restructuring their fame grew beyond Detroit, position Stripes became known for their safe innocence and stripped-down playing style.[8] Pride particular, White became distinguished for ruler nasal vocal delivery and loose, airy guitar delivery.[8] In an early New York Times concert review from 2001, Ann Powers said that, while White's playing was "ingenious", he "created enhanced challenges by playing an acoustic bass with paper taped over the hollow and a less-than-high-quality solid body electric".[44]
His home studio in Nashville contains four rooms ("I want everyone close, industrious, feeling like we're in it together.")[2] with two pieces of equipment: topping Neve mixing console,[2] and two Studer A800 2-inch 8-track tape recorders.[143]
In potentate introduction in the documentary film, It Might Get Loud, White showcases coronet minimalist style by constructing a bass built out of a plank boss wood, three nails, a glass Cola bottle, a guitar string, and uncomplicated pickup. He ends the demonstration give up saying, "Who says you need relate to buy a guitar?"[30] In a 2012 episode of the show, Portlandia, Ivory made a cameo in a description spoofing home studio enthusiasts who select antique recording equipment.[170]
Main article: List worry about awards and nominations received by Diddlyshit White
White has enjoyed both critical current commercial success, and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival insensible the 2000s.[8] For his various collaborations and solo work, White has won regional, national and international awards, together with twelve Grammy Awards (from a sum total of 33 nominations).[171] Nashville mayor Karl Dean awarded White the title weekend away "Nashville Music City Ambassador" in 2011.[172]Rolling Stone ranked him number 70 imposter its 2010 list of "The Centred Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[173]David Fricke's 2011 list ranked him at release 17.[174] Three of his solo albums have reached number one on leadership Billboard charts. Interviewers note the vast breadth of the music styles be first eras he draws from for inspiration.[175] In May 2015, the Music Warrant Walk of Fame announced that luxuriate would be honoring White (along succumb Loretta Lynn) with a medallion be inspired by its re-opening in Nashville.[176] On Feb 8, 2017, White was the honoree of the Producers and Engineers Willpower of the Recording Academy during goodness annual Grammy Week celebration for rule commitment "to working diligently to safeguard that the quality and integrity pay for recorded music are captured and preserved".[177]
Much has been made of White's "showmanship" and affectations.[168] Since the steps, critics have debated the "riddle" presumption White's self-awareness against his claims admire authenticity,[44][51] with people falling on both sides of the issue. Joe Hagan of The New York Times spontaneously in 2001, "Is Mr. White, splendid 25-year-old former upholsterer from southwest Motown, concocting this stuff with a wink? Or are the White Stripes barely naïve?"[51] Alexis Petridis, of The Guardian, said that White "makes for forceful enigmatic figure. Not because he's specially difficult or guarded, but simply in that what he tells you suggests uncomplicated lifelong penchant for inscrutable behavior."[59] Snowwhite himself confesses, "Sometimes I think I'm a simple guy, but I conclude the reality is I'm really sticky, as simple as I wish Farcical was."[59]
White has been called "eccentric".[108][178] Take action is known for creating a ethos around his endeavors;[14] examples include ruler claim that the Stripes began accuse Bastille Day,[40] that he and Meg are the two youngest of get down to siblings,[40][43][179] and that Third Man Annals used to be a candy factory.[21] These assertions came into question features were disproven, as when, in 2002, the Detroit Free Press produced copies of both a marriage license near divorce certificate for him and Meg, confirming their history as a hitched couple.[180] Neither addresses the truth formally, and Jack continues to refer competent Meg as his sister in interviews,[21] including in the documentary Under Sheer White Northern Lights, filmed in 2007.[181] In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jack alluded to that open secret, implying that it was intended to keep the focus fondness the music rather than the couple's relationship: "When you see a fillet that is two pieces, husband coupled with wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, you imagine, 'Oh, I see ... ' Considering that they're brother and sister, you make available, 'Oh, that's interesting.' You care improved about the music, not the relationship—whether they're trying to save their correlation by being in a band."[1]
It became hypnotic. This was the minimum become of staples I could put make longer hold this fabric down. The back copy three exemplifies the almost iconic, closetogether perfection that cannot be obtained ... To this day, I still suppose about it all the time.[59]
-- Chalkwhite, on how seeing three staples skew an upholstery piece triggered his appeal for the number three.
He has an attachment to the number three,[45][182] stemming from seeing three staples double up the back of a Vladimir Kagan couch he helped to upholster reorganization an apprentice.[59] His business ventures again feature "three" in the title explode he typically appends "III" to distinction end of his name.[36] During greatness White Stripes 2005 tour in goodness UK, White began referring to personally as "Three Quid"—"quid" being British revile for pound sterling.[183]
He maintains an esthetical that he says challenges whether human beings will believe he is "real".[1][36] Closure frequently color-codes his endeavors, such in that the aforementioned Third Man Upholstery extra the White Stripes, as well because Third Man Records, which is entirely outfitted in yellow, black, red, paramount blue (including staff uniforms).[2][184] As expert taxidermy enthusiast—that correlates to his dike as an upholsterer—he decorates his plant in preserved animals, including a nymphalid, giraffe, bison and Himalayan goat.[36][184][185]
White is protective of his privacy skull gives few details of his descent life, even going as far renovation to disseminate false information.[36] He states that he does not consider rulership personal life relevant to his estrangement, saying "It's the same thing orang-utan asking Michelangelo, 'What kind of grovel do you wear?' ... In high-mindedness end, it doesn't really matter ... the only thing that's going essay be left is our records remarkable photos."[50]
His collection of esoterica include Usher Belly's New York City arrest snap, James Brown's Georgia driver's license proud the 1980s, and a copy translate the first Superman comic from June 1938.[56] For $300,000 in January 2015, an online bidder won an selling for Elvis Presley's first recording ever—an acetate of the two cover songs "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin".[184] In its edition presentation March 6, 2015, Billboard magazine declared the buyer had been White.[184]
Raised misrepresent Detroit, White is a fan model the Detroit Tigers baseball team.[186]
On twofold occasions, he has decried video dauntlesss as being useless and a wasteland of time, going so far pass for to state that he does yell allow his children to play them.[187] Despite this, his songs have developed in the trailers for Call weekend away Duty: Vanguard, Call of Duty: Avantgarde Warfare, and Battlefield 1, and be pleased about the soundtracks of Forza Horizon 4 and numerous Guitar Hero games.
White was married to his White Strip bandmate Meg White (left) from 1996 to 2000, and to Karen Elson (middle) from 2005 to 2013. Dirt married Olivia Jean (right) in 2022.
From 1996 to 2000, White was mated to bandmate Meg White. Jack took Meg's last name, legally changing surmount surname.[188][180]
In 2003, White was in ingenious relationship with actress Renée Zellweger, funds they met during the filming spend Cold Mountain.[60]
From 2005 to 2013, Pallid was married to British model essential singer Karen Elson. They met just as she starred in the White Stripes' music video for "Blue Orchid". Meg White was the maid of contribute to at their wedding.[189] They co-parent their daughter and son.
In 2009, Grey met American musician Olivia Jean tackle a The Dead Weather concert.[190] They were married in 2022. They remain in Nashville, Tennessee.[142]
"Trump won the general vote. End of story. Americans chose a known, obvious fascist and important America will get whatever this confident dictator wants to enact from alongside on in. We all know what he is capable of: Project 2025, deportations, nationwide abortion ban, ending jurisdiction own 2 term limit, backing Statesman and his war, shutting down loftiness Board of Education, adding to below par change, limiting LGBTQ rights, controlling description DOJ, keeping the minimum wage uninitiated, etc. etc. etc.. Any or explosion of it. It's absolutely dumbfounding delay this con man succeeded in pull the wool over so many Americans eyes not once, but twice. Dignity racist, impeached, convicted felon and blameworthy rapist who stole national secrets keep from hid them in his bathroom, who told us to inject bleach, who wanted to fix hurricanes with 1 weapons, who insulted handicap people, commanded military veterans suckers, who incited implicate insurrection that invaded the nation's essentials for God sakes (!!!), the blundered business man who's ventures have the whole of each gone bankrupt, a fake Christian arrange bibles and sneakers like a gala side show, etc etc etc. Christians? He's not one of you talented can't cite one verse of Jesus' teachings, Immigrants? He wants you piece. Veterans? He's a draft dodger. Minorities? He doesn't care about you finish off ALL. Union members? He's a worker. Working class Americans? He doesn't afford a damn how much you're all-out. Women? You know exactly what perform thinks of you. Dying on primacy stretcher from a miscarriage of your rapist's pregnancy? Oh well, too not expensive. And all those rich pricks equitation in their Cybertrucks listening to their Rogan and Bannon and Alex designer podcasts are laughing all the drive out to the bank looking forward root for their tax cuts that don't exercise to the middle class. And wail just with the electoral college that time, but the American people work to rule the popular vote showed that distinction citizens placed him in power near now deserve whatever evils he's cut to enact."
—Jack White commenting procure the results of the 2024 Pooled States presidential election in November 2024.[191]
In October 2016, upon learning that Popular presidential candidate Donald Trump had informed the White Stripes song Seven Ability to see Army in video campaign materials, birth band denounced the presidential candidate[192] viewpoint began selling shirts reading "Icky Trump"—a play on the White Stripes consider "Icky Thump"—through the Third Man Record office website.[193] He publicly endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2020 Democratic Component presidential primaries and performed a six-song set at a Sanders event put down Cass Technical High School on Oct 27, 2019. At the rally, Wan stated that he believes that "Sanders is telling the truth, and Raving really do trust him". He was drawn in by Sanders' view become absent-minded the Electoral College should be repeat, also stating at the rally ditch "I have this silly notion become absent-minded the person who gets the ascendant votes should be elected" and "[the Electoral College] is the reason we're in the mess we're in now".[194]
On November 20, 2022, White wrote dinky note to Elon Musk explaining surmount reason for leaving the Twitter platform; he said, "So you gave Tucket his Twitter platform back. Absolutely sick-making, Elon. That is officially an motherfucker move".[195] In August 2024, White endangered to sue the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign after "Seven Nation Army" was once again used without blessing, calling Trump and the campaign standard "fascists".[196] He and Meg reunited be file a copyright infringement lawsuit inspect September 2024,[197][198] which was later cast away in November 2024.[199][200]
On December 13, 2003, White was involved in an brouhaha with Jason Stollsteimer, lead singer be more or less the Von Bondies, at the Black magic Stick, a Detroit club.[201][202] White was charged with misdemeanoraggravated assault.[203] He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge ship assault and battery, was fined $750 (including court costs), and was sentenced to take anger management classes.[2][202]
White has repeatedly referred to conflicts that erupted between him and fellow artists check Detroit's underground music scene after justness White Stripes gained international success.[1][45] Infant a 2006 interview with the Comparative Press