Jack White - "Chasing Legend"

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Jack White has got something and he's got it bad. Just what it is that he's got has been hotly debated over the last five years.There are as many detractors as there are champions of Jack White.

This however is certain: when the greatest rock guitarists of all time look at you and nod, call you by name and sit down with you to play you know you have a Hell Hound on your trail. Or perhaps it is White who has been chasing the Hound.

Jack White, born John Anthony Gillis. Also known as Jack White III and sometimes affectionately referred to as the "Seventh Son" is indeed the seventh and last son of seven boys and three girls, born July 9 1975 in Detroit, Michigan to Teresa and Gorman Gillis. Whatever name with which White may be called, none of them has yet to wield the key to the locks on this enigmatic yet creatively magnanimous artist.

White is not only most times a mystery in both his direction and motive, he is a chameleon the likes of Dylan both physically and musically. We have watched over the last thirteen years his perpetual metamorphosis.

From that Indie Boy Blue (or red in White's case) creatively crafting an Indie cult dream full of peppermints and ice cream under a red, white and black motif; spawning thousands of "Candy Cane Children", to a critically acclaimed musical artist whose name seems to fall easily and frequently from the lips of some of the world's greatest musicians.

Jack White would more than likely cringe and spit at such a vacuous, oversimplified definition of his early history and his "from the get go" vision and rightly so. There was always that thing lurking seductively underneath it all. Sneaking around like a big cat waiting for it's moment to pounce; right from his and Meg White's 1999 debut studio album self titled The White Stripes.

If you spent your time with your eyes closed (or open), put the visual that is The White Stripes in perspective, you would have caught the whiff of the leashed beast from the beginning, pacing right outside the room.

White is a creative powerhouse. A musical work horse. Musician, Song Writer, Producer, Father, sometime Actor. His collaborations and projects are dizzying. To name but a few of these collaborations: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Loretta Lynn, Beck, John Peel, Mark Ronson, Dexter Romweber, Adele, Alicia Keys.

He is the creator of The White Stripes,The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. Jack White also launched his own label and studio/record store Third Man Records in Nashville. He has yet even more creative morsels awaiting his attention. One wonders, what might happen if we could bottle just one ounce of infusion from his Muse?