{"id":490521,"date":"2019-09-25T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=890108"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:22:40","slug":"hear-the-raconteurs-brendan-benson-fondly-recall-meeting-jack-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-the-raconteurs-brendan-benson-fondly-recall-meeting-jack-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear The Raconteurs\u2019 Brendan Benson Fondly Recall Meeting Jack White"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Jack White<\/a> first met Brendan Benson the late 1990s, White shocked his future Raconteurs<\/a> bandmate by ashing his cigarette all over the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were standing in a room and I was showing him all my stuff, you know, I was kind of showing off all my crap \u2014 guitars and amps,\u201d Benson jovially recalls. \u201cHe was smoking a cigarette and he looked around \u2014 for an ashtray, I guess, now \u2014 but he didn\u2019t find one, so he kind of ashed on the table. I was just like\u2026 shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, White \u201cnoticed [Benson\u2019s] horror\u201d and wiped up the mess. \u201cAnd that was Jack,\u201d Benson says.<\/p>\n

The story comes from an upcoming podcast series from Third Man Records and Misfire Media titled About Striped: The Story of the White Stripes<\/a>,<\/em> the first season of which deals with the early days of the Detroit, Michigan band to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the White Stripes\u2019 self-titled debut.<\/p>\n

Third Man also plans to release a 20th anniversary edition<\/a> of the album this fall: The White Stripes XX<\/em>, which will be available as part of the label\u2019s Vault subscription service<\/a>. (The deadline to sign up for the package is October 31st at 1 a.m. ET.) The album gets a new mix from White, as well as unreleased studio outtakes, a DVD including two 1999 shows in Michigan, live LP documenting a show in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a 24-page booklet with photos, flyers, lyrics, receipts and other archival material.<\/p>\n

The podcast, hosted by journalist Sean Cannon, brings in fans and friends from the band\u2019s early days, including members of Pavement, Wayne Kramer of the MC5, filmmaker Lance Bangs, Chunklet founder Henry Owings.<\/p>\n

After a string of solo releases, White reunited with Benson and Co. in 2019 to release the Raconteurs\u2019 first record in 11 years, Help Us Stranger<\/em><\/a>, which saw White, Benson, drummer Patrick Keeler and bassist Jack Lawrence back in the studio and on the road.<\/p>\n

Benson looks back fondly on those early days in the podcast \u2014 including some amusing commentary on their diets in the Nineties. \u201cI think he was picky,\u201d he says of White. \u201cBecause at the time, I think he wasn\u2019t very health-conscious \u2026 I think he had his first tomato at my house.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Striped: The Story Of The White Stripes<\/em> premieres on October 8th<\/sup> via Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jack White first met Brendan Benson the late 1990s, White shocked his future Raconteurs bandmate by ashing his cigarette all over the table. \u201cWe were standing in a room and I was showing him all my stuff, you know, I was kind of showing off all my crap \u2014 guitars and amps,\u201d Benson jovially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 14:51:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}