Blunderbuss (album)
Occupation
Blunderbuss is the first solo album by Jack White, which was released on April 23, 2012, under White's own label Third Man Records in collaboration with XL Recordings and Columbia Records. The album came out as a MP3, CD and vinyl. In 2011, White wrote all the tracks on the album, she took on and produced it. When Billboard 200, the album debuted at number one and sold in the first week 138,000 times.
Creation and publication
After the dissolution of the White Stripes, White began in the second half of 2011, with shooting in the studio for a solo album. White was played by a large part of the instruments himself, but invited various guest musicians, which first originated the pieces. With Love Interruption, Sixteen Saltines and Freedom at 21 advance three singles were released before the album was released on 20 April 2012. Already on 16 April, Third Man Records, the album on iTunes for free Listen available, but you could not download the album.
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Review
Jacob Biazza heard the album for the Focus and ruled: " It sounds like the Stones sounded, they wrote yet uncompromising driven music: raw, down to the absolute essentials (sometimes almost the existential ), the musical emaciated skeleton, but in just the right moments of sublime power and curdling urge. [ ... ] There are few frills. If an instrument used, it has absolute space, absolute meaning. Whether a sensitive pedal steel is the title track, or the single cover, Rudolph Toombs "I'm Shakin ' ", one of White's inimitable croaking Zerr riffs: What has made it onto the album, it also needed. Lacked it: it missing. Great cinema in the small hall as that "
Edo Reents of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: " " Blunderbuss " is only partially a large plate. All too clearly her is the will abzulauschen, once again breathe life into the rock and roll and to break it down into its components. This Jack White does, however, with such determination that first one does not know what to say and to admire most: the virtuosity with which he every sub-genre - whether country, blues or indeed Heavy Metal - operated and that is more than mere dexterity; or the fact that he does so in a sense something to pass the time? "
Michael Shoe laut.de gives four out of five stars. He especially praises the creativity of Jack White and says that the album listen like a folky cover album of White Stripes songs.