Wacky Jack can’t stop changing his stripes: ADRIAN THRILLS reviews Jack White’s third solo album Boarding House Reach

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Working with soul queen Beyonce and hip-hop collective A Tribe Called Quest in recent years has had a galvanising effect on Jack White.

As singer and guitarist with Detroit blues-rock duo The White Stripes, the American was a champion of back-to-basics sounds.

But ever since White and his ex-wife Meg, who played drums, put an amicable end to The White Stripes in 2013, he has been moving out of his comfort zone.

Now living in Nashville, the former upholsterer has recorded two countrified solo albums, Blunderbuss and Lazaretto, and widened the activities of his Third Man record label.

The latter enterprise, a Paisley Park-like institution with a black-and-yellow dress code for workers, has reinforced his reputation as an eccentric at odds with the modern world.

But this third solo effort suggests the former Luddite, who doesn’t own a mobile phone, has loosened up even more. 

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