WHITE BLOOD CELLS
White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American alternative rock duo The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001. Recorded in less than one week at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced by frontman and guitarist Jack White, it was the band's final record released independently on Sympathy for the Record Industry. Bolstered by the hit single "Fell in Love with a Girl", the record propelled The White Stripes into early commercial popularity and critical success. In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 497 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. (More from Wikipedia)
The White Stripes' third album, White Blood Cells, featured hit songs like "Fell in Love with a Girl" (the video for this song that used animated Legos is one of the most amazing that I have ever seen) and "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground". Besides having a definite retro attitude in his music, Jack White also used vintage microphones, instruments and amplifiers in recording his music. While there had been a few two-person rock bands over the years – such as House of Freaks, a band from Richmond, Virginia that formed in 1986 – the power trio of guitar, bass and drums is about as small as most rock bands were previously willing to go. Being able to successfully pull off a rock duo requires an adept drummer; but Meg White, for one, is more than equal to the task.
(January 2013)
