White Stripes

"'What I really want is folk music to still be around. It's a shame because the culture worldwide is becoming so affluent and so computerised, that all of that's really gonna go away. A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again. At times, we [the White Stripes] almost ignore our own music. If we have the stage, we've gotta play Son House's music, because there's nobody to keep it alive. We don't wanna be known as the band that's conducting music instruction class. But that's all everyone talks about - why MTV's not good, why radio's not good. And the answer is really because whatever you want to call it - blues, country, folk - isn't around any more. That's why everyone's so mad, and I'm tired of it being my job to bring it back.' (Jack White, from What's Eating Jack? by Andrew Perry, The Observer 2004-11-14 (retrieved 2011-02-15)."

Personnel

 * Jack White: vocals, guitar and keyboards.
 * Meg White: drums and occasional vocals.
 * The couple were at one rumoured to be siblings (this propounded by the band themselves), but were in fact a divorced couple.

Career

 * The band were formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1997 and formally announced a split in early 2011. They played a mixture of raw blues and punk that eschewed sophisticated lyricism and instruments that proved highly successful with the release of albums White Blood Cells and Elephant, and considerably appealing to Peel, no doubt reminding him of the basic approach of garage bands that he saw in the US.


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Festive Fifty Entries

 * 'Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (LP-White Blood Cells)' (XL) (2001 Festive Fifty #25
 * 'Fell In Love With A Girl (LP-White Blood Cells)' (2001 Festive Fifty #6)
 * 'Hotel Yorba (LP-White Blood Cells)' (2001 Festive Fifty #2)

Sessions

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