White Stripes mainman Jack White has had his finger in countless musical pies since bursting onto the music scene with his former spouse Meg in 2000, and he now believes his latest venture, The Dead Weather, is inspiring him more than any other.
Jack White has worked with many different musicians on various projects over the past decade, including forming The Raconteurs with songwriter Brendan Benson and a collaboration with Alicia Keys, and in an interview with Chicagoist.com, White has said The Dead Weather is producing his best work to date, and if he knew the secret of their creative energy, he’d “bottle it and sell it.”
“It’s hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time,” he explained. “That’s what this band is doing for all of its members. I’m playing drums onstage and in the studio again for the first time since I was 19. That reminds me of that Vietnam war song 19, but more importantly the desire to write with the people in the Dead Weather. It feels like 2010 in the room with them, and all the melodies that hit us are blues from the future.”
The Dead Weather, which also contains The Kills’ Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age and White’s Raconteurs bandmate Jack Lawrence, released their debut album ‘Horehound‘ in July last year and issued the follow-up, ‘Sea Of Cowards‘, in May.