The Raconteurs...

We are just back from a big music fest weekend. It was the Railbird Fest in Lexington Ky. We attended because it was the first year for the event and we wanted in on the ground floor of a festival that was not too crowded. It met our expectations for being easy and uncrowded, it has been getting good write ups in the online version of Rolling Stone and the music was great. Here's photos of one our favorite people, Jack White and the Raconteurs. 

The Raconteurs are really a group effort. They don't call Jack the front man but he is a formidable presence. If you remember Jack from his guitar drum duo, the White Stripes you might be aware that early reviews alternately hail them as either the saviors of the blues or the ruination of the blues. It was mixed. Jack has gone on the realease three albums with this group in addition to several with the Dead Weather and several under his on name. The music has ranged from powerful blues based Detroit (his hometown) rock to country music that pays homage to the early histories of American music. This is the third time we have seen Jack White.    

Jack uses a wide array of guitars and fuzz pedals to get some great guitar sounds. His initial claim to fame were the sounds that he got from simple Montgomery Wards catalogue guitars and Sears amps. He has moved on a bit from that but you can't tell where he's headed next.    

Here's Brendan Benson, another Michigan musician on guitar and Dean Fertita of the band Queens of the Stone Age. 

On bass is Jack Lawrence who has many recording credits and is from Kentucky. 

Great light show. 

If I find Cathy has ever run off and left me it would probably wise to check with Jack White or Jack Black to see if they know anything. Cathy likes her Jacks and in fact they have a funny little video out on the internets.

Band takes a bow. Check out some Raconteurs. It's new music but has a timeless element that looks to the future and brings the past into good focus.