The White Stripes is an American rock duo, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals).
After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit independent music underground, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene. Their successful albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The White Stripes use a low-fidelity, do-it-yourself approach to writing and recording. Their music features a melding of punk and blues influences and a raw simplicity of composition, arrangement, and performance. The duo is also noted for their fashion and design aesthetic which features a simple color scheme of red, white, and black.
The White Stripes' discography consists of six studio albums, two extended plays (EP), one video album, 26 singles and fourteen music videos. The band has sold approximately 12 million albums worldwide, two million in the US alone, and their latest three albums have each won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Career
Early history
Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) first played as a professional musician in the early 1990s, as a drummer for the Detroit cowpunk band Goober & The Peas. This led to work with various other bands, such as the garage punk band The Go (on their 1999 album Whatcha Doin'), for whom White played lead guitar, and Two-Star Tabernacle. Also, neighbor Brian Muldoon (later of The Muldoons) played drums with Jack White
All White Stripes lyrics
- A Boy's Best Friend
- Apple Blossom
- As Ugly As I Seem
- Ashtray Heart
- Astro
- Ball & Biscuit
- Black Jack Davey
- Black Math
- Blue Orchid
- Bo Weevil
- Broken Bricks
- Candy Cane Children
- Cannon
- China Pig
- Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
- Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground
- Death Letter
- Do
- Expecting
- Fell Inlove With A Girl
- Forever For Her
- Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine
- Good To Me
- Hand Springs
- Hello Operator
- Hotel Yorba
- Hypnotize
- I Can Learn
- I Can't Wait
- I Fought Piranhas
- I Just Don�t Know What To Do With Myself
- I Think I Smell A Rat
- I Want To Be The Boy That Warms Your Mother�s Heart
- I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart
- I'm Bound To Pack It Up
- I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentle Man
- I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentlemen
- I'm Lonely
- In The Cold, Cold, Night
- Instinct Blues
- It's True That We Love One Another
- Jimmy The Exploder
- Jimmy The Explorer
- Jolene
- Jumble. Jumble
- Lafayette Blues
- Lets Build A Home
- Let's Shake Hands
- Little Acorns
- Little Bird
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