The Dead Weather at the Jazz Fest...

One of the acts we saw at jazz fest was fronted by a favorite performer we follow, Jack White. Jack burst on the scene some years ago with a guitar and drum duo called the White Stripes. Lately been seen with bands the Raconteurs and now the Dead Weather. Usually he plays guitar here seen on drums.

When the White Stripes appeared a few years ago the blues police set up a howl that they were ruining the blues. More progressive minds, me included think he saved them. Jack often appears with funky cheap guitars and loud as piss amps, a similar creed we swear allegiance to around here.


Don't know all these band member's names but this is kind of a garage rock/punk/blues super group. No one had cheap guitars today. They played a complete set of matching Gretsch guitars, here a Bo Diddley square model and a big hollow bodied bass.

Jack with a Thunderbird, similar to what Muddy Waters used early in his career.


The guitarist on the left sports a White Falcon. Guess you could best describe this music as spooky Gothic punk blues garage rock. Maybe if you are hung up a the same old tunes check them out. To quote one of their songs, "Cuts like a buffalo..."