Blunderbuss

This article covers the album of the musician Jack White, for the handgun see Espingole .

Blunderbuss
Jack White's studio album
Publication (s)	April 20, 2012
admission	2011
Label (s)	Third Man Records / XL REcordings / Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Blues rock , garage rock , country rock , folk rock
Title (number)	13
running time	41:52
occupation	Jack White
production	Jack White
Single releases January 31, 2012 Love interruption March 13, 2012 Sixteen Saltines April 1, 2012 Freedom at 21

Blunderbuss is Jack White's first solo album , which was released on April 23, 2012 under White's own label Third Man Records in collaboration with XL REcordings and Columbia Records . The album was released on MP3, CD and vinyl. In 2011 White composed, recorded and produced all of the pieces on the album. The album debuted at number 1 on Billboard 200 and sold 138,000 copies in its first week.

Creation and publication

After the White Stripes broke up , White began recording a solo album in the studio in the second half of 2011. White played a large part of the instruments himself, but invited various guest musicians with whom the pieces were created. With Love Interruption , Sixteen Saltines and Freedom at 21 , three singles were released in advance before the album was released on April 20, 2012. On April 16, Third Man Records made the album available on iTunes for free listening, but the album could not be downloaded.

Track list

1. Missing Pieces - 3:27
2. Sixteen Saltines - 2:37
3. Freedom At 21 - 2:51
4. Love Interruption - 2:38
5. Blunderbuss - 3:06
6. Hypocritical Kiss - 2:50
7. Weep Themselves To Sleep - 4:19
8. I'm shakin ' - 3:00
9. Trash Tongue Talker - 3:20
10. Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy - 3:03
11. I Guess I Should Go To Sleep - 2:37
12. On And On And On - 3:55
13. Take Me With You When You Go - 4:10

Chart placements

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Blunderbuss   DE 3 05/07/2012 (9 weeks)   AT 3 05/04/2012 (10 weeks)   CH 1 05/06/2012 (17 weeks)   UK 1 05/05/2012 (16 weeks)   US 1 05/12/2012 (19 weeks)

In Switzerland , the Flemish part of Belgium, the United States and Great Britain , the album was at the top of the respective album charts. Second place was achieved in Norway , Australia and New Zealand , and third place in Germany , Austria and Denmark . There were other top ten placements in the Netherlands , France and Portugal. The album also hit the charts in Italy , the Walloon part of Belgium and Spain , but did not make it into the top ten.

review

Jakob Biazza heard the album for Focus and judged: “It sounds like the Stones sound, they still wrote uncompromisingly driven music: raw, except for the essential (sometimes almost the existential), the muscular skeleton emaciated, but still in exactly the right Moments of sublime force and bloodcurdling urge. [...] There is hardly any frills. When an instrument kicks in, it has absolute space, absolute meaning. Whether it's sensitive pedal steel on the title track or on the only cover, Rudolph Toomb's “I'm Shakin '”, one of White's inimitable croaking distortion riffs: What made it onto the album needed it too. If it were missing: it would be missing. It's big cinema in a small hall. "

Edo Reents of the FAZ wrote: ““ Blunderbuss ”is only partially a big record. All too clearly you can hear the will to breathe life into rock'n'roll again and break it down into its components. Jack White does this with such determination that at first you don't know what to say and admire more: the virtuosity with which he serves every sub-genre - whether country, blues or heavy metal - and which is more than mere mere Dexterity; or the fact that he does something like that to pass the time? "

Michael Schuh from laut.de awards four out of five stars. He especially praised Jack White's creativity and said the album sounds like a folky cover album of White Stripes songs.

Web links

• Blunderbuss on laut.de
• Review on rollingstone.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Participating musicians in Blunderbuss. On: allmusic.com (English). Retrieved September 7, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Schuh: Like a folk cover album of old White Stripes classics. On: laut.de. Retrieved September 7, 2012
3. ^ ITunes stream of Blunderbuss, release week shows and American Express Unstaged. ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: thirdmanrecords.com, April 16, 2012. Accessed September 7, 2012  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jack White in the German album charts ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jack White in the Austrian charts
6. ↑ ^{a b} Jack White in the Swiss charts
7. ↑ ^{a b} Jack White in the British charts
8. ↑ ^{a b} Jack White in the US album charts
9. ↑ Jack White in the Flemish charts
10. ↑ Jack White in the Norwegian charts
11. ↑ Jack White in the Australian charts
12. ↑ Jack White in the New Zealand charts
13. ↑ Jack White in the Danish charts
14. ↑ Jack White in the Dutch charts
15. ↑ Jack White in the French charts
16. ↑ Jack White in the Portuguese charts
17. ↑ Jack White in the Italian charts
18. ↑ Jack White in the Walloon charts
19. ↑ Jack White in the Spanish charts
20. ↑ Jakob Biazza: Jack White should save the Rolling Stones , article on focus.de from April 20, 2012, accessed on September 2, 2012.
21. ↑ Edo Reents: His hypercritical kisses , article from May 4, 2012 on faz.de, accessed on September 2, 2012.