The Raconteurs
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The most successful Jack White side project—co-led with lesser-known but no less talented rock songwriter Brendan Benson, plus bassist “Little” Jack Lawrence (the Dead Weather, City and Colour) and drummer Patrick Keeler (Afghan Whigs)—craft some mighty fine rock tunes. (You’ve likely heard crunchy strutting first single “Steady as She Goes.”) Over the course of the Raconteurs’ 14-year tenure, they’ve dropped three LPs. The one that brings them to town, this year’s Help Us Stranger, is their first since 2008, and it’s a solid comeback, from earwormy barn-burning opener “Bored and Razed” to the lush, trippy, banjo-flecked deliberation of set closer “Thoughts and Prayers.”
by Leilani Polk