Jack White pays tribute to Dexter Romweber: “He was rock n’ roll inside and out”

nme.com:

Jack White has paid tribute to Dexter Romweber of Flat Duo Jets, describing him as a man who was “rock n’ roll inside and out”.Romweber’s death at 57 years old was announced by his family on Facebook yesterday, who stated that he passed away at his home on February 16.

They said they “believed he died of natural causes”, although a medical examination is still pending. “We will have more to say soon, but ask for privacy at this time,” the family continued.In an extensive Instagram post, White wrote eloquently about the time he spent with Romweber, and shared a track he recorded with his group the Dex Romweber Duo in 2009, ‘Last Kind Word Blues’.A post shared by Jack White (@officialjackwhite)“A brick crashed through my window last night,” White wrote. “Cat Power had wrote to me; John Michael Dexter Romweber had passed away, passed on, bill past due.

He wasn’t a Rock N’ Roll musician, he WAS Rock N’ Roll inside and out, without even having to try, he couldn’t help himself.”“People toss that around a lot, but in Dex’s case it was actually true.

To call him Punk would be like calling the Great Pyramid a sand castle. He was the type that don’t get 3 course dinners, awards, gold records and statues made of them because they are too real, too much, too strange, too good.