Jan 28, 2008 4:53 PM
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The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
In his Cool Spin review of Consolers of the Lonely, Mix senior editor Blair Jackson remarks, “It's hard to know what to say about this bizarre, eclectic and often amazing album. Stylistically, it leaps from screamin' late-Led Zep-ish hard rock, to flowing acoustic pieces, to bits that sound like they came off some early prog-rock disc, to an epic, Dylanesque story-song.” Consolers of the Lonely is the second album project from The Raconteurs, the hard-rocking quartet based in Nashville created by the White Stripes’ Jack White III and singer/songwriter Brendan Benson, and completed by bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler. Following the band’s 2006 debut, Broken Boy Soldiers (whose power-pop single “Steady, As She Goes” peaked at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100), White and company settled into John McBride’s Blackbird Studio to record the follow-up with Joe Chiccarelli. “John's a total gear nut,” Chiccarelli told L.A. Grapevine columnist Bud Scoppa for Mix’s May 2008 issue after tracking The Raconteurs. “Anything you need, he has it there. It got to be a running joke with me and my assistants during The Raconteurs project: I'd ask for the most obscure piece of gear I could think of, and every time they'd have a couple of them. He just opens up his lockers, and says, ‘Go for it.’ There's a spirit in that whole complex. There's something about it that makes you want to do your best.” Blackbird general manager Vance Powell—whose credits include Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Jars of Clay and Jessica Simpson—engineered alongside Chiccarelli.
Engineers: Joe Chiccarelli, Vance Powell and Jack White III
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