White Stripes singer-guitarist Jack White hasn't forgotten about his musical side project, The Raconteurs, whose 2006 debut CD Broken Boy Soldiers produced a breakout hit, Steady As She Goes.
White and The Raconteurs have been in the studio working on a follow-up record.
"I've got a lot of songs coming out right now and I hate to not record them ...
"We wrote so many songs on tour with The Raconteurs, so when we finished the tour I said, 'Well, me and Meg are going to start working on our album,' and I didn't want to tell those guys, 'Well, see you next year.' So we found a couple of weeks we could get in there, and get as much done. We didn't finish the album but we got as much done as we could. We'll come back in the fall or something."
White said it was his "big, lofty goal" to get both a White Stripes and a Raconteurs album out this year, "but that's proving to be very difficult."
As for working in his two bands, White said they "are two totally different beasts."
Raconteurs vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Brendan Benson and White collaborate on songwriting differently than the Whites do.
"Brendan comes from a totally different school of songwriting than I do, so a lot of interesting things happen when you take two sort of disparate things and put them together and make them collide, and see what happens. That's The Raconteurs.
"And we have such an insane rhythm section too. The White Stripes is all about limitation really. I guess The Raconteurs is the opposite of that."
