AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
The White Stripes, White Blood Cells.(Sound Recording Review)
(V2)
Bass players cringe at the very notion of a band without bass. You wanna leap on to the stage, whip out your Fender Jazz Special, plug into a Bassman head sitting on top of a big ol' JBL EL 40, and show `em what it's about. You give `em the eye, "What were you thinking?" But guitarists going it with only a drummer in tow somehow seem to pull it off: Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott's House of Freaks, Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, even Junior Kimbrough all eschewed the bottom end (Kimbrough would glare back, "Jes another mout' to feed ...'). So it is with The White Stripes, brother and sister Jack (guitar, piano) and Meg (drums) White, born and bred in Detroit, Hound Dog Taylor's old stomping grounds.
After their 1999 eponymous debut and 2000's De Stijl, The White Stripes' red, white, and black visual palate has emerged as distinctively as their spare, blues-inflected sound. White Blood Cells finds them expanding their recorded oeuvre to match their raucous live sets, which can leap from Kinks-ish pop to raw blues to country pickers in a careening, yet cohesive melange. White Blood Cells opens with "Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground," a Zeppelin-like rocker, which is quickly followed by "Hotel Yorba," a country loper that Loretta Lynn ...
- The White Stripes: Los sonidos basicos del rock.(Primera Fila)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) May 13, 2005 700+ words
...los 70: se trata de The White Stripes, un dueto sencillo y...creativa. As fue como The White Stripes grab su disco Elephant...Elephant (2003) - White Blood Cells (2001) - De Stijl (2000) - White Stripes (1999) Tome en cuenta...
- The Second Coming: The White Stripes won't save rock, but they're on a...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Ali, Lorraine April 14, 2003 700+ words
...Detroit called the White Stripes and their breakthrough...album "White Blood Cells." It also didn...metal made the White Stripes sound like music...than "White Blood Cells," full of not...feat that the White Stripes delivered a smart...
- White Stripes form unlikely bond with country legend Loretta Lynn.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Crawford, Greg July 7, 2003 700+ words
...Daughter,' " says White Stripes founder Jack...album "White Blood Cells" to Lynn and...included on "White Blood Cells," but was released...discovered the "White Blood Cells" dedication...Lynn invited the White Stripes to her Tennessee...
- FAME COMES KNOCKING ON WHITE STRIPES DOOR.(What's Happening)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Ehrbar, Joe July 6, 2001 700+ words
...third album "Red Blood Cells" just hitting...labels circling, White Stripes mania seems just...pop music, the White Stripes' back-to...come to be. The White Stripes aren't interested...new album "Red Blood Cells" instead...
- Feature / The White Stripes: Tan sencillo como un 'elefante'.(Magazzine)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) April 20, 2003 700+ words
...esto es el grupo The White Stripes, formado por Jack...hasta el 2001 que The White Stripes lleg a la conciencia...tercer disco White Blood Cells, fue un xito inesperado...ratifica Elephant, The White Stripes se han convertido en...
- `Elephant' stomp; The White Stripes' new album matches the hype.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Katz, Larry March 28, 2003 700+ words
...easily dismiss the White Stripes' music. As a singer...punk/blues mix. The White Stripes found just how appealing...release of "White Blood Cells." The duo became...indie release-. The White Stripes even entered the big...
- AS EXPECTED, WHITE STRIPES HAVE CONTINUED THEIR UPHILL...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Ehrbar, Joe June 7, 2002 700+ words
...this time, the White Stripes were on the cusp...album "White Blood Cells" on the small...overnight, the White Stripes and its hometown...year later the White Stripes find themselves...breakthrough "White Blood Cells," in its original...
- The White Stripes: getting to know the most interesting band in music...
- Magazine article from: Interview Jarmusch, Jim May 1, 2003 700+ words
...four years since the White Stripes released their self...third album, White Blood Cells, which catapulted...legend of Detroit's White Stripes. Their new album...still somehow be the White Stripes. [Jack and Meg laugh...
Source: HighBeam Research, The White Stripes, White Blood Cells.(Sound Recording Review)