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Written by John Louse

Wednesday, 04 June 2008

O.K., so Meg White’s health issues held up the White Stripes from touring behind their Icky Thump record last year. A lot of us in Detroit got bummed over that; but it gave Jack White a chance to head back into the studio last year to start work on the second Raconteurs album in Nashville. The output of the recordings is the brand new album, Consolers Of The Lonely, which came out back in March and debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Album Chart. Always an impressive feat, but even more impressive when you mention the fact that the band announced the release of the album a week before the album’s release. This was to stop the music pirates from leaking it out on the internet and causing minimal damage to album sales in the process. Even with the rushed release, the band has seen the first single “Salute Your Solution” has risen up the rock radio charts.
Lonely turns up the riffs for the band, with tracks like “Rich Kid Blues” and “Attention” switching up the band’s sound slightly from the more blues-based first record Broken Boy Soliders. The album also does delve into those moments as well, with cuts like “Old Enough” and “The Switch and The Spur” to satisfy the fans of the first record. White takes more vocal command on the new record, but still trades off with former Detroit-singer-songwriter Brendan Benson with the vocals these days. White and Benson form an admirable duo as songwriters in the band and former Greenhornes Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler add to the band’s mix.
The band is on the road currently in support of the new record. The tour is winding down with two big shows back in Detroit June 7^th and 8^th. The band wraps this leg of the tour up at the Bonnaroo Festival on June 13^th. The band hits Europe, before heading back to the States for Lollapalooza at the beginning of August. So, for all the White Stripes fans in Detroit that didn’t get to see them last year, this is your chance to check Jack White and Brendan Benson out and see them return home.
The Raconteurs play the Fillmore Detroit on June 7^th and 8^th. June 7^th is SOLD OUT, but tickets remain for the June 8^th show. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com. Additional dates can be found at www.theraconteurs.com . NOTE: Go check out the website, you’ll get flashbacks of a computer screen in 1982 if you do- it's great! .

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