Dead Weather Is Jack White's Latest Blended Band
Three of them had just come off a long tour and were tired and ragged. Two were sick and had lost their voices. One had a slipped disk in his neck. Another had to get to New York the next day. </p><p> Sounds like the makings of a great rock ’n’ roll band, huh? </p><p> “It’s a really lucky surprise that we even became a band,” said Alison Mosshart, singer of the highly buzzed-about supergroup the Dead Weather. </p><p> The devilish-sounding, distortion-flaunting quartet is the latest side project of the White Stripes’ mad genius Jack White. And it is indeed a great one. </p><p> In this case, White mostly plays drums, though he sings occasionally and produced the band’s album, “Horehound.” The vocals are otherwise handled by Mosshart, a sly rock howler who also fronts the cult favorite London-based duo the Kills. </p><p> Rounding out the group are the bassist from White’s other band the Raconteurs, Jack Lawrence, plus Queens of the Stone Age member (and sometime Raconteur) Dean Fertita on guitar. </p><p> The quartet more or less formed on a whim and a buzz when the Raconteurs finished a tour with the Kills near the end of last year. </p><p> “Jack lost his voice on that tour, so I started singing some of his songs for him, and then I lost my voice because of that,” Mosshart says. “Then on the last day of the tour in Atlanta, we were all having celebration drinks. Jack had just finished building a recording studio behind his house in Nashville, so he was like, ‘Do you have any days off now? Why don’t you come out and check it out?’ ” </p><p> They started out with a 1979 song by “Cars” hitmaker Gary Numan called “Are Friends Electric?” which White intended to release as a 7-inch single on his own label, Third Man Records. After hammering out that track, though, Mosshart said, “We just didn’t stop playing. We played for like five, six or maybe seven or 10 hours straight and came out of there with five songs. Then I got up and went to New York the next day without any sleep to do some Kills gigs.” </p><p> A month or two later, the sessions were back on, and it was clear this was a real band making a full album. </p><p> “Every song was kind of written by everybody,” Mosshart said. “It all really came out of old-fashioned jamming. Someone would play something, and someone would play something else off of that. I was writing lyrics 2,000 miles an hour to keep up. It was all very spontaneous and thrilling.” </p><p> “Horehound” is indeed a thriller. Over 11 tracks, it bounces, bobs and bleeds between Led Zeppelin-style blues-rock bombast to more hyper, punky gems that don’t sound too far off from the White Stripes, if the Stripes had a woman out front, and White was playing all his instruments at once at top volume. </p><p> The lyrics match the music’s dark, bleary-eyed style and are full of bad intentions, as in the hard-pounding grinder “Hang You From the Heavens,” when Mosshart sings, “I’d like to grab you by the hair and hang you from the heavens.”</p><p> She and White also trade off wicked verses in the freaky single “Treat Me Like Your Mother,” fueled by a maniacal boy/girl dynamic that’s one of the most fascinating things about the Dead Weather. </p><p> Both Mosshart and White already had a knack for writing from the perspective of the opposite sex. The gender-bending also plays out coolly in their remake of Bob Dylan’s late-’70s, Christian-era “New Pony,” which has been interpreted by some Dylanologists as a heaven-vs.-hell look at divorce and affairs. It’s full of the electric spontaneity at the heart of the album. Mosshart had not heard the song before they rehearsed it.
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