{"id":794425,"date":"2019-04-02T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=816534"},"modified":"2019-04-02T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:54:22","slug":"the-raconteurs-detail-new-album-help-us-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-raconteurs-detail-new-album-help-us-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raconteurs Detail New Album \u2018Help Us Stranger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Raconteurs<\/a> \u2013 Jack White<\/a>, Brendan Benson<\/a>, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler \u2013 have announced their third album. Help Us Stranger<\/em> will be released via Third Man Records on June 21st. The group\u2019s first new album in more than a decade, the LP follows 2008\u2019s Consolers of the Lonely<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Written by White and Benson, with the exception of their cover of Donovan\u2019s \u201cHey Gyp (Dig the Slowness),\u201d the group recorded the 12-song set at Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Produced by the Raconteurs and engineered by Joshua V. Smith, the album features contributions from keyboardist\/multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age) and sisters Lillie Mae and Scarlett Rische.<\/p>\n

A limited edition electric green, black and copper swirled vinyl LP, which features moving image lenticular cover art, will be available via Third Man Vault subscriptions\u2019 Vault Package #40<\/a>. Pressed at Third Man Pressing in Detroit, Michigan, the 180-gram marble vinyl edition includes a companion 7-inch single that houses early demo recordings of the LP\u2019s \u201cHelp Me Stranger\u201d and \u201cSomedays (I Don\u2019t Feel Like Trying).\u201d The package comes with a bandana designed by Keeler and a Raconteurs slip mat. Vault members will also receive first pre-sale ticket access to soon-to-be-announced Raconteurs headline shows. The deadline to subscribe for Vault Package #40 is April 30th.<\/p>\n

This weekend, the band convenes for its first live show in eight years during the Third Man Records 10th Year Anniversary<\/a> event in Nashville, Tennessee. They are also scheduled to perform at a number of festivals around the globe, including Railbird Festival on August 10th in Lexington, Kentucky and Woodstock 50<\/a> in Watkins Glen, New York on August 16th. In December, the Raconteurs returned with their first two new songs in 10 years, LP tracks  \u201cSunday Driver\u201d and \u201cNow That You\u2019re Gone.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Help Us Stranger<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. \u201cBored and Razed\u201d
2. \u201cHelp Me Stranger\u201d
3. \u201cOnly Child\u201d
4. \u201cDon\u2019t Bother Me\u201d
5. \u201cShine the Light on Me\u201d
6. \u201cSomedays (I Don\u2019t Feel Like Trying)\u201d
7. \u201cHey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)\u201d
8. \u201cSunday Driver\u201d
9. \u201cNow That You\u2019re Gone\u201d
10. \u201cLive a Lie\u201d
11. \u201cWhat\u2019s Yours is Mine
12. \u201cThoughts and Prayers\u201d<\/p>\n

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

The Raconteurs \u2013 Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler \u2013 have announced their third album. Help Us Stranger will be released via Third Man Records on June 21st. The group\u2019s first new album in more than a decade, the LP follows 2008\u2019s Consolers of the Lonely. Written by White and Benson, with […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 12:26:53","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}