Jack White unveiled big news about his long-awaited debut solo LP this morning: Blunderbuss arrives on April 24th via Third Man Records/Columbia, preceded by lead single “Love Interruption,” available for pre-order now and to stream below.

As the announcement notes, guest performers include the likes of Seasick Steve, Chris Thile, and Ruby Amanfu, among others. Meanwhile, Jack described his decision to finally go solo:

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.

“Love Interruption,” along with non-album cut “Machine Gun Silhouette,” hits digital stores tomorrow and on 7” vinyl February 7th. Hear it below:

A Jack White Q&A from this month’s MOJO hit the White Swirl recently, in which the Third Man Records founder revealed some intriguing 2012 releases for the Nashville label. Most surprisingly, perhaps, is confirmation for the rumor that White has recorded a new Blue Series single with knighted Welsh crooner Tom Jones: a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Evil (Is Going On)” backed by Frankie Lane’s “Jezebel.”

Update: Stream the White-Jones collaboration here.

What’s more, a number of pre-1945 blues pioneers that influenced White — a few of whom were covered on the White Stripes’ earliest recordings — will get the reissue treatment this year. “Remastered, redesigned,” and pressed on “high-quality vinyl,” TMR will release LPs by Blind Willie McTell, Charley Patton, and the Mississippi Sheiks in collaboration with archival blues label Document Records.

Details on the blues reissues are forthcoming, while the Jones/White 7” arrives on March 5th. In the meantime, revisit the Stripes’ 2000 revision of McTell’s “Lord, Send Me An Angel” below:

Anticipated recordings by Jack White and Bob Dylan for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, a new compilation of songs completed by a dozen artists from lyrics Williams left behind after his 1953 death at 29, have arrived to stream ahead of the set’s release this week. Both White and (his favorite artist to cover) Dylan honored the country legend’s words with a sound that wouldn’t be out of place among Hank’s enduring oeuvre (a spare, shuffling drumbeat, slide guitar, and twang-inflected vocal), while each cut recalls moments in their own work as well (Dylan’s Modern Times and White’s work on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, for example). Hear Dylan sing “The Love That Faded” at NPR and White channel Williams (“I was so thankful to be an antenna…”) on “You know That I Know” below.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of U2’s Achtung Baby LP, Q Magazine has compiled a forthcoming covers album set to include new recordings by Jack White, Patti Smith, Damien Rice, and others to be announced. Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, where U2 are premiering a new Davis Guggenheim-directed film about the band titled From the Sky Down, Bono revealed news of the tribute record (via Rolling Stone):

Jack White does “Love Is Blindness,” Depeche Mode do “So Cruel,” Patti Smith did “Until the End of the World,” Damien Rice does “One.” It just goes on. And it’s strange, because when I hear the album, when U2 do it, all I hear is what’s wrong with it. But when I heard all these artists doing it, I thought, “It’s really good.”

A set of previously unheard Hank Williams songs recovered from notebooks left behind after his 1953 death at 29 years old have been co-written to completion and recorded by Bob Dylan, Jack White, Jakob Dylan, Levon Helm, and others. News broke tonight (via Rolling Stone) that the long-rumored LP, dubbed The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, will finally see the light of day on October 4th, via Bob Dylan’s Egyptian Records imprint. Few other details about the project — aside from the tracklist below — have been announced, but here’s a choice quote by White on his contribution from an obscure interview with Pamela Des Barres I stumbled upon while researching our spring Dylan covers roundup:

The great thing is I live on the street Hank Williams lived on in Nashville and [“You Know That I Know”] just came out of the pile [Dylan] sent over, I picked that one. And there was this phrase about this girl with red hair, and I went, whoa, whoa, and I read backwards, ‘you know that I know that you ain’t no good.’ That was the first line! And I was like, oh my God! And I prayed to God, I said, please, Hank was walking on this street at one point and I’m sitting here now… let it happen again. And it happened in five minutes and that song came out. It was so cool. I was so thankful to be an antenna like that for a second. Because Hank wrote the song, let it be an antenna again.