"Blunderbuss" is White's first official solo album, and it comes five years after The White Stripes' last. In the meanwhile, the man has not sat still: he's been making music with The Raconteurs, Dead Weather, Third Man Records, and many others. This solo outfit is quieter than his other endeavors: there's gentler blues, softer guitars, and cool touches of the electric piano. There's lots of acoustic, given that Meg is missing at the drums. This album is, if not in so many words, most about divorce: each song is tinged with the sadness of failed love and the pain it leaves behind. Even so, it's sweet and full of warm melodies that stay in the mind and heart to stir up as much joy as they do pain. If you're a Stripes continuant, this album should be in your collection.
Produced by Jack White and recorded at his own Third Man Studio in Nashville, Blunderbuss has been described by White as "an album I couldn't have released until now. 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."
This album is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and includes a download code.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
Tracklist
| A1 | Missing Pieces | 3:27 | |
| A2 | Sixteen Saltines | 2:37 | |
| A3 | Freedom At 21 | 2:52 | |
| A4 | Love Interruption | 2:38 | |
| A5 | Blunderbuss | 3:07 | |
| A6 | Hypocritical Kiss | 2:50 | |
| A7 | Weep Themselves To Sleep | 4:19 | |
| B1 | I'm Shakin' | 3:00 | |
| B2 | Trash Tongue Talker | 3:20 | |
| B3 | Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy | 3:04 | |
| B4 | I Guess I Should Go To Sleep | 2:39 | |
| B5 | On And On And On | 3:56 | |
| B6 | Take Me With You When You Go | 4:08 |
