Jack and Meg expose their Scottish ancestry and are clearly right at home recording in the round with bagpiper Jim Drury. The centre of the album revolves around a new inclusion to the White Stripes pantheon: bagpipes. Jack resurrected “Bone broke” and finished writing it at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, where Icky thump was recorded. In fact, it was partially written in 1998 for a four-piece band that never recorded it. The semi-climax, resting at the top of a mountain-climbed call and response between Mexican trumpeter Regulo Aldama (found in a Nashville Mexican restaurant) and Jack White’s fastest solo on record, “Conquest” is one of the few examples in modern music of these two instruments, usually unheard together, so violently juxtaposed.Īfter that, “Bone broke” evokes primal rock n’ roll that could only come from the bottom of the Detroit river, and will firmly satiate lovers of the band’s early 45’s. Once sung by Patti Page in the late fifties, “Conquest” sees the Stripes’ pit-heavy, bass-laden guitar against mariachi trumpet in a blistering nouveau flamenco number. Once the listener catches their breath from that storm, they’ll need to inhale again as “Conquest” begins. Meg White uses several stop-start rhythms to connect the disparate styles into one flowing piece of modern blues music. torrential outpour blues,” a baton relay race of just about every blues style of the last hundred years crammed into one song. The explosive title track leads into a downright Country rock meld titled “You don’t know what love is (You just do as you’re told)” featuring a hammond church organ blended with Hard country guitar picking. As the opening notes of the title track kick off the album, the listener knows he/she is in for an untypical-as-typical White Stripes ride. Icky thump finds the duo of Jack and Meg White ever-changing, yet still remaining in their “little red box.” Icky thump is a sonically thick, modern sounding record which reveals its roots in American folk music at every turn. Just weeks before their ten-year anniversary (which actually takes place on July 14th - Bastille Day), White Stripes return with the release of their new record, Icky thump.
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