Jack White: Boarding House Reach 12″

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Boarding House Reachis the eagerly anticipated new album fromJack White, the 12x Grammy Award-winner’s third solo LP and first all-new album in nearly four years. The record sees White expanding his musical palate with perhaps his most ambitious work thus far, a collection of songs that are simultaneously timeless and modern. Written and conceived while holed up in a spartan apartment with no outside distractions, Jack replicated the identical environment and used the same gear as when he was a 15 year old (a quarter-inch four-track tape recorder, a simple mixer, and the most basic of instrumentation) to pen sketches of the songs. The album explores a remarkable range of sonic terrain – crunching rock ‘n’ roll, electro and hard funk, proto punk, hip hop, gospel blues, and even country – all remapped and born anew to fit White’s matchless vision and sense of restless experimentation.Boarding House Reachis a testament to the breadth of White’s creative power and his bold artistic ambition.

The 13-track set features White on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars and drums, organ, and synthesizers. He’s backed by a remarkable new lineup of musicians that includes: drummerLouis Cato(Beyonc, Q-Tip, John Legend, Mariah Carey), bassistsCharlotte Kemp Muhl(The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) andNeonPhoenix(Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z), synthesizer playersDJ HarrisonandAnthony “Brew” Brewster(Fishbone, The Untouchables), keyboardistsNeal Evans(Soulive, Talib Kweli, John Scofield) andQuincy McCrary(Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Pitbull), percussionistsBobby Allende(David Byrne, Marc Anthony) andJustin Pore(Ozomatli), and backing vocalistsEsther RoseandAnn & Regina McCraryof Nashville’s beloved gospel trio, The McCrary Sisters, as well as longtime collaborators like drummersDaru Jones(Nas, Talib Kweli) andCarla Azar(Autolux, Depeche Mode, Doyle Bramhall II). Singer-songwriterC.W. Stonekingalso appears, contributing a stirring spoken word performance to the album’s “Abulia and Akrasia.”

Boarding House Reachis ushered in by the rapidly acclaimed new single, “Connected By Love,” b/w “Respect Commander,” and was produced byJack Whiteand recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, Sear Sound in New York, NY, and Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, CA; the album was mixed byBill Skibbe,Joshua V. Smith, and White at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN.