Jack White's Boarding House Reach

If Jack White is remembered for one thing it will be for trying new things with his music and for being successful at it. With his new album Boarding House Reach White takes his music in a slightly different direction. While still playing heavy on blues and Americana, he adds his own unique take on punk and hip-hop.

This is White's oddest album to date, but what else would we expect from music's Willy Wonka? One of the oddest songs is Ice Station Zebra, but in a really good way. The overlapping piano and jazz beat with the electric sounds with the rap lyrics just mesh, taking classic White and turning it up.

The song Over and Over hearkens back to White's White Stripes days, but it has a sound that grows up on you and shows how the artist has grown up into himself and how much more confident he is with his own sound.

As good as this album is there is one song that could've been left on the floor : Everything You've Learned. I get the jest of the song, consumerism in America or something of that nature, but really Jack White's done better on the subject in songs Icky Thump (The White Stripes, Icky Thump, 2007) and Entitlement (Lazaretto). I'm also not a big fan of  Esmerelda Steals the Show, but that could be personal taste.

All in all White does a great job at giving more of his fans another album to add to what is the wonderment of White.

*I know that I had hit reset on this project before, but right after that happened I got hit with the most horrible flu and bronchitis ever. So I will start up again regularly today. and follow thru till  the end July.