Jack White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s.
86 Facts About Jack White
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Jack White has won 12 Grammy Awards, and three of his solo albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts.
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In 2005, Jack White founded the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson, and in 2009 founded the Dead Weather with Alison Mosshart of the Kills.
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Jack White has released four solo studio albums, which have garnered wide critical and commercial success.
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Jack White is a board member of the Library of Congress' National Recording Preservation Foundation.
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Jack White has an extensive collection of guitars and other instruments and has a preference for vintage items that often have connections to famous blues artists.
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Jack White is a vocal advocate for analog technology and recording techniques.
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Jack White was married to model and singer Karen Elson from 2005 to 2013; they have a son and daughter.
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Jack White was raised a Catholic, and his father and mother both worked for the Archdiocese of Detroit as the building maintenance superintendent and secretary in the Cardinal's office, respectively.
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Jack White has said in interviews that Son House's "Grinnin' in Your Face" is his favorite song of all time.
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Jack White worked with other artists in the meantime, but revealed the band's plan to release a seventh album by the summer of 2009.
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Jack White emphasized that it was not due to health issues or artistic differences, "but mostly to preserve what is beautiful and special about the band".
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The chemistry between the two artists led them to collaborate, and in early 2009, Jack White formed a new group called the Dead Weather.
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Jack White worked with Loretta Lynn on her 2004 album Van Lear Rose, which he produced and performed on.
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In 2008, Jack White collaborated with Alicia Keys on the song "Another Way to Die", the theme song for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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In 2009, Jack White was featured in It Might Get Loud, a film in which he, Jimmy Page, and the Edge come together to discuss the electric guitar and each artist's different playing methods.
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Jack White finished and performed the song "You Know That I Know", and it was featured on The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, released on October 4,2011.
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Jack White appeared on AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, performing a cover of U2's "Love Is Blindness".
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On January 30,2012, Jack White released "Love Interruption" as the first single off his debut, self-produced solo album, Blunderbuss, which was released on April 24,2012.
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Jack White said maintaining two bands was too expensive, and abandoned the practice at the conclusion of the tour.
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The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and, in a personal triumph for Jack White, broke the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
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Jack White co-wrote the song "Don't Hurt Yourself " with Beyonce on her album Lemonade, and accompanied her on the vocals.
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Ahead of his next effort, Jack White worked in isolation and without a cell phone; he rented an apartment in Nashville, recorded quietly so no one would know what he was working on, and slept on an army cot.
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Jack White drew inspiration from rap artists of the 1980s and 1990s, and chose his backing musicians from talent that played supporting hip hop artists live.
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In January 2018, Jack White released "Connected by Love", taken from his third solo album Boarding House Reach, which was released on March 23,2018.
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In promotion of his album, Jack White appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest, where he played "Over and Over and Over" and "Connected by Love".
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White released Jack White: Kneeling at The Anthem DC, his first concert film as a solo artist, on September 21,2018, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
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In October 2021, Jack White released "Taking Me Back", his first solo single since 2018, which appeared in the game Call of Duty: Vanguard.
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In November, Jack White revealed that he would release two solo albums in 2022: Fear of the Dawn, which will feature Jack White's traditional rock sound, on April 8, and Entering Heaven Alive, a folk album, on July 22.
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In December 2021, Jack White announced the Supply Chain Issues Tour kicking off on April 8,2022, in Detroit, Michigan.
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Jack White performed on Saturday Night Live on February 25,2023.
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Jack White played two songs from his Fear of the Dawn album and was presented with a jacket for being a Fiver-Timer on the show.
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Jack White played Elvis Presley in the 2007 satire Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
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In June 2017, Jack White appeared in the award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions, recording on the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s.
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Jack White co-founded Third Man Records in 2001 with Ben Swank, formerly of the Ohio-based Soledad Brothers band.
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However, it was not until after he moved to Nashville that Jack White purchased a space in 2009 to house his label.
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Later that year, Jack White partnered with the watch manufacturer Shinola to open a retail location in Detroit.
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Jack White owns many instruments and, historically, has tended to use certain ones for specific projects or in certain settings.
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Jack White has a preference for vintage guitars, many of which are associated with influential blues artists.
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Jack White is a proficient guitar, bass, mandolin, percussion and piano player.
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Jack White began using a 1915 Gibson L-1 acoustic on the Icky Thump album; in an interview for Gibson, he called the instrument his favorite.
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Parsons's first product was painted copper color, however he decided to create a second version with a completely copper body, which Jack White began to use instead.
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Jack White has dubbed this one the "Green Machine", and it is featured in It Might Get Loud.
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Jack White sometimes played a Gibson J-160E, a Gretsch Duo Jet in Cadillac Green, and a second Gretsch Rancher acoustic guitar.
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In 2020 Jack White completed his Three-Wheel-Motion Low Rider - which is a highly customized Fender Telecaster B-Bender guitar.
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Jack White has since acquired another Gretsch, a custom white "Billy Bo" Jupiter Thunderbird with a gold double pickguard.
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Jack White uses a black left-handed one since the Dead Weather album Sea of Cowards came out.
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Jack White has been known to play Fender Telecasters, featuring one in the music video for Loretta Lynn's "Portland, Oregon".
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Jack White owns three Gretsch Rancher Falcons because he says that its bass tones make it his favorite acoustic to play live.
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Since 2018, Jack White has been playing EVH Wolfgang guitars, which are Eddie Van Halen's signature model.
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Jack White uses numerous effects to create his live sound, most notably a DigiTech Whammy WH-4 to create the rapid modulations in pitch he uses in his solos.
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Jack White produces a "fake" bass tone by playing the Kay Hollowbody and JB Hutto Montgomery Airline guitars through a Whammy IV set to one octave down for a very thick, low, rumbling sound, which he uses most notably on the song "Seven Nation Army".
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In 2005, for the single "Blue Orchid", Jack White employed an Electro-Harmonix Polyphonic Octave Generator, which let him mix in several octave effects into one along with the dry signal.
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On occasion, Jack White plays other instruments, such as a Black Gibson F-4 mandolin, piano, and an electric piano on such tracks as "The Air Near My Fingers" and "I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman".
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Jack White plays percussion instruments such as the marimba, drums and tambourine.
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Notably, it includes two-snare drums, which Jack White calls "the jazz canon".
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Jack White has long been a proponent of analog equipment and the associated working methods.
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In particular, Jack White became distinguished for his nasal vocal delivery and loose, explosive guitar delivery.
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Jack White has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s.
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Jack White has won twelve Grammy Awards, with 33 nominations, and three solo albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts.
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On February 8,2017, Jack White was the honoree of the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy during the annual Grammy Week celebration for his commitment "to working diligently to ensure that the quality and integrity of recorded music are captured and preserved".
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Jack White is protective of his privacy and gives few details of his family life, even going as far as to disseminate false information.
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That summer, the couple were in a car accident in which Jack White broke his left index finger and was forced to reschedule much of the summer tour.
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Jack White posted the footage of his finger surgery on the web for fans.
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Jack White met British model Karen Elson when she appeared in the Jack White Stripes' music video for "Blue Orchid".
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Manager Ian Montone was the best man and Meg Jack White was the maid of honor.
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On July 22,2013, a Nashville judge barred Jack White from having "any contact with Karen Elson whatsoever except as it relates to parenting time with the parties' minor children".
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Jean and Jack White were married shortly afterward by Jack White's business partner Ben Swank who officiated on stage.
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Jack White publicly endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and performed a six-song set at a Sanders event at Cass Technical High School on October 27,2019.
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At the rally, Jack White stated that he believes that "Sanders is telling the truth, and I really do trust him".
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Jack White was drawn in by Sanders' view that the Electoral College should be abolished, stating at the rally that "I have this silly notion that the person who gets the most votes should be elected" and "[the Electoral College] is the reason we're in the mess we're in now".
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Jack White is known for creating a mythology around his endeavors; examples include his claim that the Stripes began on Bastille Day, that he and Meg are the two youngest of ten siblings, and that Third Man Records used to be a candy factory.
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Jack White has an attachment to the number three, stemming from seeing three staples in the back of a Vladimir Kagan couch, he helped to upholster as an apprentice.
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Jack White maintains an aesthetic that he says challenges whether people will believe he is "real".
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On December 13,2003, Jack White was involved in an altercation with Jason Stollsteimer, lead singer of the Von Bondies, at the Magic Stick, a Detroit club.
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Jack White pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of assault and battery, was fined $750, and was sentenced to take anger management classes.
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Jack White has repeatedly referenced conflicts that erupted between him and fellow artists in Detroit's underground music scene after the Jack White Stripes gained international success.
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However, in September 2015, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney posted a series of tweets alleging that Jack White tried to fight him in a bar.
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Jack White denied the claim in a statement to the online magazine Pitchfork, saying that Carney should talk to him directly, and not on the internet.
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On February 1,2015, the University of Oklahoma's newspaper OU Daily ran a story regarding Jack White's show of February 2 at McCasland Field House that included the publication of Jack White's tour rider.
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Jack White has provided financial support to institutions in his hometown of Detroit.
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In 2009, Jack White donated almost $170,000 towards the renovation of the baseball diamond in southwest Detroit's Clark Park.
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In June 2013, it was revealed that Jack White had footed the entire bill.
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In July 2016, Jack White joined Nashville's 45-member Gender Equality Council.
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On September 18,2018, Jack White donated $30,000 to The Outsiders House Museum for its preservation and restoration.