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Lanie Lane Announces Jack White-Produced Single
Reconvening with the Raconteurs, teaming up with Stephen Colbert, throwing a divorce party, and dabbling in hip-hop hasn’t slowed down Jack White’s one-off Blue Series for Third Man Records this summer, as the next White-produced 7” single arrives on August 23 featuring two original songs — “Ain’t Hungry” and “My Man” — by Australian singer Lanie Lane. “I was so inspired by the whole process and by how raw and instinctively everything happened,” said Lane in an announcement today.
We’ll have to wait a bit to hear the so-called “fuzz bass sassed stomp number” and “wailing, waltzing lament to withheld love,” but you can get acquainted with her bluesy, Billie Holiday-meets-Muddy Waters-meets-Doris day sound via the video for “What Do I Do” above.
Jack White’s renowned Jay-Z collaboration, “Ray Bans,” appears to be trapped in the Hova vaults, but Third Man Records’ debut rap foray arrived tonight in the meantime: “Brain” b/w “Royal Mega” was released digitally and on 7” vinyl, starring Detroit hip-hop artist Black Milk — who put a live album at TMR’s Nashville HQ to tape in the spring — with horn and live drum-driven co-production by Jack. Sample the B-side, “Royal Mega,” (mislabeled in SoundCloud) below or with “Brain” over at SKoA.
Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler will reconvene this fall — after a three-year break spent focused on other respective band and solo projects — to headline MI Fest, a new music festival that seeks to celebrate “the history of Michigan while bringing in national names as well,” reports the Detroit Free Press. While no other concerts (or recording plans) have been revealed for the Racs as of yet, the quartet will be joined at the September 17 event by “several artists from the Third Man Records roster” for performances. Also, TMR’s Rolling Record Store will be on-site.
Video: Seasick Steve ft. Jack White, Alison Mosshart, John Paul Jones
While Jamie Hince departed for his honeymoon over the weekend, Kills partner Alison Mosshart kept musically busy with one of her old Dead Weather bandmates: Jack White joined Mosshart and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones for a cover of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “Write Me A Few Lines,” led by Third Man Records-signed blues man Seasick Steve. Thanks to Dementian, here’s a pro-shot clip from yesterday’s surprise iTunes Festival performance.
Stephen Colbert w/ The Black Belles – “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You)”
For Jack White and Third Man Records’ final segment on The Colbert Report tonight, the pair announced today’s surprise release of their 7” single: a new recording of Colbert’s ’80s love song “Charlene (I’m Right Behind You)” backed by TMR’s Black Belles. You can pick up a copy here or here and watch all six clips from this week’s White-Colbert festivities thataway. Meanwhile, this epic comedy-music collaboration will make their live debut via a Rolling Record Store performance at NYC’s High Line Park this morning.
Video: Jack White & Colbert Interview
In which Stephen Colbert visits Nashville’s Third Man Records for the first part in an awkwardly hilarious interview with Jack White on The Colbert Report. Watch him try to convince Jack (the record executive) that Jack (the former White Stripe)’s hit “Seven Nation Army” could sell yogurt, among other subjects, in tonight’s segment above.
Update: Watch this week’s full Colbert-White team-up below + grab details on their 7”.
Jack White and his label, Third Man Records, will be appearing on Comedy Central this week for “a series of segments” on Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report, kicking off Tuesday night with a performance by the Black Belles. According to White’s official site, “two titans of comedy collide when Stephen Colbert meets Jack White here at Third Man Records.” Details are scarce at the moment, but between tonight’s performance (as well as a likely interview) with Bon Iver and today’s news it looks like we have a big week of late-night musical moments on the way.
In an odd, somewhat surprising bit of news, Jack White and Karen Elson announced today that they plan “to celebrate their 6th anniversary and their upcoming divorce with a positive swing bang hum dinger” in Nashville. A press release includes an invitation to the private party, reading: “Please help us celebrate together this anniversary of the making and breaking of the sacred union of marriage with our best friends and animals.”
Given that the talented couple, who added that they will “remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents to our wonderful children Scarlett and Henry Lee,” are opting to focus on better days, I thought we might as well: Enjoy a chronological recap of their key recording and music video collaborations so far, beginning with the 2005 White Stripes video where they met and ending with recent cuts from Elson’s White-produced solo material, below.
While many believed a recent report that Jack White is in talks with director/comedian Bobcat Goldthwait to collaborate on a new musical film based on the Kinks’ 1975 concept album Schoolboys in Disgrace was too good (or unlikely) to be true, we now have word from the film’s executive producer himself, ex-Kinks singer Ray Davies. “[Jack White’s] a great technical player and would bring some great anarchy to it, which is in keeping with the script,” Davies told BBC News (via Rolling Stone) after confirming that White would be recording music — with his “great anarchic sound” — for the film if an agreement was reached between both parties.
Seasick Steve: “You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks” Video
Speaking of Led Zeppelin, tracks from bassist John Paul Jones’ latest collaboration will arrive next week in the form of Seasick Steve’s You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks, a 12-track Third Man Records release, in which the 3-string blues rocker recorded a pair of Mississippi Fred McDowell covers — “Write Me a Few of Your Lines” and “Levee Camp Blues” — with Jack White on drums and production. Speaking to Grinderman/Bad Seeds member Jim Sclavunos, Steve said the White-assisted cuts were born of an all-night, whiskey-fueled recording session in Nashville. Today, you can preview a snippet of the former McDowell cover and/or hear the full title track with Jones in the animated official video above.
Previously: Seasick Steve & John Paul Jones Rock Jools Holland