Jack White - Lazaretto (2014) Third Man Records FLAC Beolab1700
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Jack White - Lazaretto
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Artist...............: Jack White
Album................: Lazaretto
Genre................: Alternative
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 70 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 06/06/2014
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Tracklisting
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1. Jack White - Three Women [03:57]
2. Jack White - Lazaretto [03:39]
3. Jack White - Temporary Ground [03:13]
4. Jack White - Would You Fight for My Love? [04:09]
5. Jack White - High Ball Stepper [03:52]
6. Jack White - Just One Drink [02:35]
7. Jack White - Alone in My Home [03:27]
8. Jack White - Entitlement [04:06]
9. Jack White - That Black Bat Licorice [03:50]
10. Jack White - I Think I Found the Culprit [03:49]
11. Jack White - Want and Able [02:34]
Playing Time.........: 39:16
Total Size...........: 275.36 MB
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When some young college professor gets the idea to teach a class on Jack White – and let’s be real, this reality isn’t that far off – they’re going to reserve a whole semester-long unit for Lazaretto.
Maybe that sounds like a load of fanboy gushing, but make no mistake: On first impression, this is White’s least musically engaging album since anything pre-Elephant, a possible disappointment for anyone craving one unhinged guitar solo after another. But after a few more listens, the record – White’s second LP as a solo artist and 45th (!) as producer – begins to function like his Nashville- based Third Man Records and novelties storefront: with each visit, one notices more strangely enticing details that reveal an understated genius similar to that of some literary treasure like the The Great Gatsby.
It’s almost worth breaking the album down line-by-line as you would that novel, because every little detail might be packed with deeper meaning. Consider the record’s alleged backstory: It was his longest production process to date (1.5 years), he conquered writer’s block by pulling characters and lyrics from one-page short stories and plays written after his first brush with love as a 19-year-old (half his current age of 38), and – in true legend-forging fashion – he destroyed the original works afterward.
Even more fascinating are his somewhat cryptic dedications in the liner notes to three women: Florence Green, the last-surviving WWI veteran when she died at 110 years old in 1992, Voltairine de Cleyre, a Michigan-bred anarchist and “Amazing” Grace Hopper, a WWII computer science pioneer who coined the term “debugging” by literally removing a moth from a computer to make it work. Given those, it would be absurd to assume that opening the disc with the Blind Willie McTell re-work “Three Women” is just a coincidence.n
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