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Jack White is an award-winning musician and producer born in 1975 in Detroit, Michigan. With his ex-wife Meg White he is one half of the rock duo The White Stripes and has also performed as part of the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather, and as a solo artist. White is also the founder of the Third Man Records label, which has issued releases by the musician’s projects and others.

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12 Mar, 2009

The Dead Weather

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White debuts his new band in a private show at the opening of Third Man Records’ downtown offices. White plays drums with Mosshart singing, Lawrence on bass, and Fertita on guitar. The band’s beginnings can be traced back to the Kills/Raconteurs tour where White asked Mosshart to fill in on lead vocals.

It reenergized the tour…We had one day off in Nashville where [Mosshart] had spent the night and the next day she would fly out. So the three of us [White, Mosshart and Lawrence] said, ‘Why don’t we record a 7-inch?’…Dean just happened to be spending the night in one of the ante rooms [in my house].