NUMBER ONE RECORD, no. 10. The Raconteurs, Broken Boy Soldiers. My Jack White phase is still growing, expanding—Teddy got me a Jack White solo alternate takes and demos record for Christmas, too, I’ll have to spin soon. Plus I have another one and more White Stripes... But yeah, one of the songs that my daughter took a shine to when I was assembling mix-CDs for the minivan back in the aughts was “Steady As She Goes,” so I’m kind of sentimental about it (along with certain songs by The Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, et al, and most especially the song “Satellite” by Guster—she listens to those songs on night drives when I’m with her and when I’m not, and they’re all stars in the constellation of her musical taste, and they mean a lot to me in a kind of moon-reflecting-her-song-playlist’s-light sort of way)... Predictably, every song on here is a little gem of guitar rock with a sixties-homage feel with big rough guitar parts and I guess there’s another guy who does a lot of the singing and writing and playing whose name I’m spacing. I just looked at the photos, his name is Brendan Benson. Anyway it’s a tight little set of songs for their debut. And Steady As She Goes remains stellar. Like in a constellation. #theraconteurs #raconteurs #brokenboysoldiers #steadyasshegoes #jackwhite (at Noblesville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKvEAjaLB3G/?igshid=au6tybofogh0
