How must poor Jack White be feeling these days? He’ on everyone’ cool list after working with Loretta Lynn, and then his last girlfriend, Renee Zellweger, goes and marries a country singer–but it’s the dude who sings “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy.” If that’s the kind of country that revs up the Hollywood starlets these days, pasty indie rock lads everywhere must be in despair. But judging by the noise-rock jamboree that is Get Behind Me Satan, Jack isn’t wasting much time worrying over such things. The buzzing guitar screeches louder than a farm accident, and Meg White’s drum work seems at times to be part of some ominous welcome ceremony to hell. And several tuneful songs show that White hasn’t abandoned his old-school country influences.
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