Jack Lawrence (born December 18, 1976) is an American musician from Covington, Kentucky, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. (More from Wikipedia)
While he was still in high school in Ohio, Brian Olive was the guitarist in a band called Us and Them that released a four-track tape. The garage rock band called the Greenhornes that included some members of Us and Them was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio by Craig Fox (guitar and vocals), Jack Lawrence (bass guitar), Patrick Keeler (drums), Brian Olive (guitar), and Jared McKinney (keyboards). The group relocated to Detroit and released two albums in their original incarnation, Gun for You (1999) and The Greenhornes (2001). Brian Olive left the band to join Soledad Brothers before the second album was released, and Jared McKinney also departed the following year; Olive was replaced by guitarist and vocalist Eric Stein. This line-up of the Greenhornes released an album called Dual Mono in 2002. Eric Stein left in 2002 to join the Griefs, leaving the three core members – Craig Fox, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler – by 2003.
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Jack White of the White Stripes organized a band called the Do-Whaters that included the rhythm section from the Greenhornes, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, plus Dave Feeny, another Detroit musician and producer. They became the backing band for Loretta Lynn on her universally acclaimed 2004 comeback album, Van Lear Rose, which was masterminded and produced by Jack White.
Jack White’s next musical project, the Raconteurs grew out of the Do-Whaters that had backed Loretta Lynn on Van Lear Rose; the band was organized in 2005 by Jack White, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler of the Greenhornes, and Brendan Benson (vocals, guitars, keyboards). Since a Queensland band was already using that name, they are called the Saboteurs in Australia. The Raconteurs was a high-profile band from the beginning, since Jack White was so well known.
Another album, Consolers of the Lonely came out in 2008. By early 2010, the future of the Raconteurs was uncertain; Brendan Benson was quoted in February as saying: “I think we’re all just really focused on other things.” The band is on hiatus at present, though they have made several appearances during the past five years, including a partial reunion at one of Jack White’s solo concerts in late January 2015, when Jack Lawrence and Brendan Benson joined White on stage during his encore performance.
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The Dead Weather is Jack White’s current band and was organized in 2009; other bandmembers include Jack Lawrence of the Greenhornes, Dean Fertita (previously in Queens of the Stone Age – he also contributed to the Raconteurs album Consolers of the Lonely), and Alison Mosshart (lead singer of the indie rock band the Kills).
The genesis of the band sprung from a concert by the Raconteurs in Memphis, when Jack White lost his voice; he asked Alison Mosshart to fill in for him on vocals. He later asked her to record a song with him and Jack Lawrence, and they met Dean Fertita at the studio. The Dead Weather has released two studio albums, Horehound (2009) and Sea of Cowards (2010); Live at Third Man Records West came out between these two. Another album is promised in 2015.
(February 2015)
