I watched this video twice and as far as I can tell it’s about disaffected youth. When I can understand the words, it sounds like Jack White is singing about kids home alone without parental supervision getting into trouble because there’s little else for them to do. However, I don’t see the real point of …
I don’t know who else could pull this off. Jack White is the definition of cool. He doesn’t worry about the gender problem with this Dolly Parton song. He just lets it fly. Come to think of it, Bob Dylan sang “House of the Rising Sun” — a Dave Van Ronk arrangement — from the …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …