Due to general absent-mindedness, I left Jack White’s version of “Black Jack Davey” off the Candy Cane Children comp. My mistake indeed. A traditional song popularized by Bob Dylan and electrified by John Gillis, consider this the iTunes bonus track for free. Download: MP3: The White Stripes-“Black Jack Davey”
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Jack White wouldn’t endorse this compilation. He’s a proud Luddite — wary of technology, illegal piracy, and all the ills they engender. Print is better than blogs. CD’s are better than MP3’s. And vinyl trumps all. As someone similarly inclined to such anachronisms, I offer him a salute and an apology. I suspect that White […]
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Douglas Martin is not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping, or real estate. October 2, 2003. Ten people deep, seated among my closest friends at a Red Robin, smiles circling as the staff performed their obligatory birthday announcement. Handclaps striking through the air like tiny shots from miniature cap guns. This detail’s entirely unimportant […]
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Fast and dirty. Like no other band of their generation, The White Stripes understood that’s the point of rock and roll. No need to belabor a eulogy on Jack and Meg’s medicine show.  Raw they gave it to you. Guitars that twitched like the electrocuted and damned. Drums that kept a steady pulse and knew […]
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