"Jack White [A.K.A. Best Performance of the Night] Spreads the Love at Grammys"
Jack White has admirers in all genres of music. On the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, Tyler, the Creator turned into a star-struck fan at the sight of White, asking a handler to arrange an introduction and deferentially waiting while White went through media to take a photo and shake hands with the three-time Grammy nominee.
For White, that kind of cross-genre connection is what makes the Grammys special. "That's what's really great about this. I've always loved that. I've never been a one-kind-of-genre kind of person. I like all music, and when you actually get exposed to it in different ways, that's what beautiful on a night like this. It's not a competition – it's listening to everybody from all fields do their own thing," he told Rolling Stone.
It's mostly as a fan that White is working these days with his Third Man Records, including a new three-song single with the Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes, though White is a little frustrated at how his involvement has been represented. "I'm going to start taking my name off some of this stuff because I like to produce 45s, but you produce a 45 of Gibby Haynes and they end up saying, 'Jack White releases new record with Gibby Haynes on vocals.' And it's not really fair," he said.
Edited at 2013-02-13 06:19 am (UTC)
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When my mom watched it I found out she knows the girl on the fiddle. lol go figure, my mom knows every non-mainstream musician in Nashville, and if she doesn't, she has friends who do. /csb
Totally.
Blunderbuss was hit or miss for me too. I loved Freedom at 21, but the latter half of the album dragged and I loathe Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy.
I also have problems with some of his lyrics (like Freedom at 21 actually, even though I love it, the views on women in it are problematic for me).
I've met him before and he was nothing but nice, though at shows I've been to at TMR the policies were kind of weird (I don't even remember what they were now). I went to Devil's Night on Halloween a couple of years ago and it was chaos. Ugh I have a lot of Feelings on the matter and it's hard for me to put into words why I have become disillusioned with Jack. :\
That is all.