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RE: Supergroup lives in Dead Weather - Articles |
By Cortney Harding | July 25, 2009
It all started with a lost voice and a missing tour bus. Alison Mosshart sang for the Kills, the dirty blues-rock band that opened for the Raconteurs last fall, when Jack White lost his voice.
White's hoarseness came near the end of a fairly cataclysmic tour for him and Mosshart; the White Stripes/ Raconteurs frontman injured his back and the Kills' tour bus driver disappeared with the bus. (The bus was found a week later, and the driver eventually was arrested.)
"I was wearing the same clothes I'd been in for a week, because the bus still hadn't been found," Mosshart says. To get their minds off their mishaps, White suggested an impromptu end-of-tour jam session in Nashville.
"We had one day left with her before she had to go to New York and we were in Nashville together so we said, 'Why don't we record a 7-inch?' " White says. "We had absolutely no energy left and were completely burned out."
And so the Dead Weather was born, with White on drums, Mosshart on vocals, Jack Lawrence on bass and Dean Fertita on guitar.
The "supergroup's" album, "Horehound," is now out on White's Third Man Records. It's a deep, sludgy collection that recalls early Led Zeppelin and includes a dark cover of Bob Dylan's "New Pony."
On tour the band's playing clubs, despite the fact that White's name alone could draw much larger audiences.
"It's good to pay your dues a little bit with the band," White says.
The band members say the birth of their new project doesn't signify the death of the Kills, the Raconteurs or the White Stripes. Mosshart explains that the Kills are writing their fourth release.
White recently opened a Nashville music complex that recalls the setup of old-school labels like Stax: recording studio in back, record store in front, office and performance space on the premises. For the time being, White will be Third Man's only producer, so his aesthetic will rule.
Source: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/1684145,CST-FTR-dead25.article | | 
