Jack White Recap

Crown Lands, a dynamic duo featuring raging guitars and beating drums from Oshawa, Ontario, opened the show with their psych-rock and progressive sounds. Their sound is said to be influenced by the rock masters of yesteryear, and having the chance to tour with an icon like Jack White is an opportunity that couldn’t be ignored.

First for Jack White came ‘Over and Over and Over’ with its funky and electric riffs before ‘Hotel Yorba’ brought back that analog sound fans came accustomed to hearing when Meg White was on the drums back on the White Stripes’ White Blood Cells album of 2004.

The acoustic guitar was unsheathed for his blues-inspired, simplistic tune ‘What’s Done is Done’ that stressed White’ssickness for the in-between and the critiques of his inspirations that lie in plain sight. A prominent blues fanatic and one of the celebrities engrained in Nashville’s 21^st century music renaissance, White strummed the chords with equal sense excitement and exhaustion.

To make a diverse sound like Jack White did in his latest release, you need a diverse band with a number of differentbackgrounds. That might be why he called upon a supporting cast heavily-entrenched in all parts of the musical spectrum, employing musicians well-versed in the sounds of blues, rock and even hip hop.

The raw riff of ‘Seven Nation Army’ brought the crowd to a bounce in the final song of the encore, with its universally-recognized sound drawing out the night’s biggest screams.

Musicians can find ways to block out the noise of modern life, but it takes a different kind of talent to help others cut through it. Jack White’s simplistic approach in the studio and on stage, reminds concert goers there’s nothing that rips more than the simple things.

Jack White is a real-life silent mode in the unlimited calling and texting of modern day life.