Jack White Blazes Through 90 Minutes of New Songs and White Stripes Classics at Electrifying New Jersey Club Show: Concert Review
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Jack White’s four solo albums in the years that followed the breakup of the White Stripes are explorations of styles that show multiple other sides of his musicianship, veering into R&B and blues and experimental styles far from the straight-ahead, blistering rock and roll he’d laid down with the band that put him on the map.
Those albums are all cool and often great, but it’s hard to deny that although his fans like, respect and appreciate them — along with side projects like the Raconteurs and Dead Weather — secretly they wished he’d just put together a small rock band, plug in, turn the volume up and let rip.
Well, that’s exactly what he did with his fiery new album “No Name,” and he did that and lots more over the course of a 90-minute set that shook the floor of the intimate 800-capacity White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey, just across the Hudson from Manhattan.
With just drummer Patrick Keller, bassist Dominic Davis and keyboardist Quincy McCrary in tow, he blazed through most of the new album and a Muddy Waters cover before digging deep into White Stripes classics for most of the rest of the night.
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