Jack and Meg together forever!!

It was the fall of 2000 when I got introduced to the White Stripes. It was not till the spring till I fell in love with them. I thought as a duo, they were amazing. Jack White had some of the best guitar sounds and his range of old blues songs were great. I also fell in love with Meg White. She sounded like Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground, but cuter. They were making music No one but a duo could do. There was a lot going on, so much so as Jack White said, "There so many songs and personalities happening, you forget there are just two people doing it." He is correct. The mix of all types of stuff is so mind blowing, you to want to start a band like they have.


When I heard the second album of the White Stripes. I was going crazy wondering how they knew about Blind Willie McTell and Son House. Two blues people I actually go out and seek if I can find them on record. I liked the song "Let's Build A Home" because of the opening by the kid. I really think it's Jack White when he was a kid. The guitar riff is amazing and the way the Guitar are as one is mind blowing.

The songs are just long enough to grab your interest and then gone, but you can play it again to really hear the stuff you missed. What you do miss is the wonderful slide guitar playing of Jack White. You miss that Meg White is playing drums better then anybody could on a song like that. Her thumping in time is amazing.



When you hear De Stijl you hear some of the best 38 minutes of your life. I have decided not to pick that album. What makes the White Stripes more impressive is when they do it live. I am doing a bootleg of some live stuff from the BBC of July 2001 for the John Peel Show. The Cover of Son House, the standard of "John the Revelator", also the traditional "Boll Weevil" and the Dolly Parton cover make it all worth so much to a man who loves roots music. No to mention a reading of Gene Vincent's "Baby Blue" that would make him very proud. It is what makes the White Stripes who they are. All these versions are 21st. century versions of classics that should be renewed for a fresh audience.



The White Stripes might be one of my new favorite bands because, of the respect to tradition that they have for the roots. Not many bands these days look back at the Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music and use that is a template of what should be played. They are original as well. The White Stripes are daring, and wonderful, and bold. If you are looking for this bootleg it maybe be tough to find but it's well worth the search.