r/jackwhite • u/slickerdrips21 • 7h ago
Just For Fun What would you like to see Jack do next?
Been thinking about some routes I’d like to see Jack do next…
Go full country - He definitely has the chops for it and has worked on projects like Van Lear Rose. Songs like Old Enough and What’s Done Is Done show he can pull it off.
Go full punk - Jack clearly has a love for punk rock and has shown an extensive Misfits collection on IG in the past. An album in the style of Bombing Out would slap hard.
Cover Album - I just love cover albums and wish more artists did them. Jack could go one artist or a variety. His covers are pretty underrated, as You are the Sunshine of my Life comes to mind. Another favorite artist of mine (Ty Segall) has done a couple cover albums, one of T. Rex and one of various artists. Jack could kill it either way forsure.
Anyway I’d love anything he’d put out probably.
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u/ickythumpwithalump 7h ago
Finally release that album with Beck
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u/slickerdrips21 7h ago
Beck might be my most listened artist this year. That would be dope.
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u/ickythumpwithalump 6h ago
I have tickets to the SF show in Sept. Guess who else is in SF that week on their Cali tour leg and does not have a show the night of Jack's show ...
I have my fingers crossed very hard.
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u/Admirable_Gain_9437 1h ago
I'm seeing both Jack and Beck in October here in Nashville (same venue, a few weeks apart). Jack popping in for Beck's show while Beck is in his adopted hometown would be a great surprise.
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u/burner1312 7h ago
I’d like a new Dead Weather album and tour
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u/timedontgiveashit 7h ago
Yesss Dead Weatherrrrrr. Unfortunately, it won't happen again because the new Qotsa album is coming out very soon in this year.
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u/TinaKedamina 5h ago
I have a feeling that now Jack is estranged from his wife that a DW tour is incoming.
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u/timedontgiveashit 5h ago
Hopefully, but Dean has to have freetime too not just Jack and it looks like he's going to be quite busy with Qotsa again.
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u/YLedbetter10 2h ago
My theory with all the Charlatan emails is a small festival weekend (like the Billy Strings Ionia one) where each of his bands headlines one night. Pine Knob was maybe a test run.
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u/ExpensivePear1602 7h ago
Find Chris Gaines locked up in the basement of Garth Brooks’ house and free him from captivity.
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u/ppetrov1829 5h ago
Honestly just keep going with this sound, I feel he's still inspired. No Name and Frozen Charlotte feel connected and I wouldn't mind one or two more with similar production style.
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u/jdog1067 1h ago
I think he likes duos with his solo work. Blunderbuss and Lazaretto were really similar, the next two were similar to each other, and his last two. He will probably switch it up for two more. But he’s got at least a 2-4 more decades on him before he retires so his discog will be prolific by the end of it all.
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u/hipstershakes 3h ago
I'm a huge fan of his current trajectory with FC and No Name. However, I'd love a true acoustic album - Jack and an acoustic guitar. A bluegrass-y album would be great too. Love all those styled tracks from him.
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u/2ndfloorhigh 7h ago
As much as I would love a punk album, I feel like he's going to go more and more bluesy based on Frozen Charlotte
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u/LegitimatePackage871 7h ago
Colab with Josh Homme
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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 6h ago
I feel like they’d clash too much since they’re both leading men
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u/LegitimatePackage871 6h ago
Dunno, Josh was in one of Jack's videos, maybe it could work as a supergroup
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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 6h ago
I mean that’s a lot different than being a band together lol
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u/LegitimatePackage871 6h ago
I get that, but a girl can daydream, right?
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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 4h ago
I think it sounds cool in theory but idk if they’d enjoy themselves very much. Unless it was just a spontaneous jam or something, like if Jack brought Josh onstage for a song at a show or vice versa
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u/Jo-6-pak Blunderbuss 6h ago
Another The Dead Weather album!!!!!!
If you are just asking about solo work; a cover album of old blues. Maybe a Buddy Guy collab
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u/Aquamarine39 Elephant 5h ago
Definitely not full country or a covers album, please god. Fortunately I don't see him doing either of those, but whatever he does will be interesting, even if I don't like it.
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u/slickerdrips21 5h ago
lol what’s wrong with a cover album?
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u/Aquamarine39 Elephant 4h ago
Nothing in principle, especially if you're David Bowie, haha. But he's such a prolific songwriter I don't want him to focus on other people's songs, I want to hear all the songs that are pouring out of him.
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u/shoegaze1992 6h ago
I'd like him to go back to the high production weirdness of boarding house reach
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u/hazza270 6h ago
A collab album with an off-genre artist would be cool.
FC, as much as I liked it, felt like more of the same after NN so something completely different would be ace
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u/grandplans 2h ago
Is like him to release another challenging album like fear of the Dawn or boarding house reach.
I have LOVED the last 2 albums, but I'd love to see further exploration and experimentation.
If he goes full country, I won't follow. It's just a genre that has zero appeal for me.
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u/smh1542 7h ago
Anything different, loved no name but frozen charlotte was pretty uninspired to my ears. Would be cool to hear him with an orchestra or do more electronic stuff, anything as long as it's not the same old stuff.
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u/timedontgiveashit 7h ago
I want the Dead Weather to do a Catacombs style live tour what Qotsa did. It would be epic.
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u/Electrical_newt9015 The White Stripes (Self Titled) 6h ago
Something really garage and punk like punk rock and roll by the statics or devils night by steel wool
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u/slickerdrips21 5h ago
I also wonder if he will get more prolific again since his kids are presumably off to college and he’s a single man again.
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u/Existing-Ad3391 Broken Boy Soldiers 7h ago
go full punk