Jordan Klepper

Ooh, okay.

I think one of the greatest live shows I've ever seen was a White Stripes show down in Santiago, Chile.

It was like... It was incredible.

Uh...

i saw jack white perform the song death letter which is a sun house an old blues cover okay and it's this really gritty great blue standard that the white stripes does and they just rip with it was it was amazing and so that sort of lived large in my head as this live performance of this great blues cover

So I always search for... They used to do it live.

Jack White rarely does it, I think, as a solo performer.

But the Under Blackpool Lights, I think, if I have it correctly, that version of it, to me, is gritty and beautiful and awesome.

A man gets a letter that this person that he loved is dead.

And he goes back to carry her coffin and bury it in the ground.

So it's like this deep, dark blues, heavy thing.

Heavy, yeah.

And it's Jack White singing this on stage with his ex-wife.

And there's just always a tension and a drama between those two there.

So much of that is projected and what have you and performative, but there's just something about like, this is a couple who's performing this raw, dirty blues song on stage.

together and there's a dance that's happening and there's already a dance that's happening with like the blues and garage rock but jack white is just in this space performing the song and there's like a moment where he he he chooses to vamp and more often than when he did this song live like in traditional blues culture you would pull bits and pieces of other songs and throw them in the middle of a blues song they were they were folk in that way they were like they were temporary and modular in that sense

And so a lot of times he would, in the middle of this song, throw in old blues songs and then turn to Meg and see them.

I believe in this one he uses an old, what's the song?

Is it like John the Revelator?

I forget what it is, but he,