A Profile Of Jack White

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The NYTimes has published a profile on Jack White from one of it's readers. If you are a fan, check it out:

Jack White is a regular guy.

That’s one of the messages you get when you go see the Raconteurs, his new band. Mr. White, still best known as one-half of the White Stripes, formed the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, another singer-songwriter, and Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, the rhythm section from the Greenhornes. The Raconteurs released a fairly good debut album, “Broken Boy Soldiers” (Third Man/V2), in May. And Monday’s not-quite-thrilling concert was the first of two sold-out shows at the Roseland Ballroom.

Of course, Mr. White isn’t the kind of guy who can slip unnoticed into a proficient four-piece band. He still has that ferocious, catlike scream; he still has that tendency to push a song off-kilter with a thunderous, wobbly guitar solo; he still looks like a star, even when (as in nearly every Raconteurs photograph) he’s trying hard to blend into the background. On Monday the band members acknowledged Mr. White’s overwhelming presence by pointedly declining to acknowledge it.

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