The acclaimed Jack White has released a new song entitled “Carolina Drama.” The song is exclusive to singer’s upcoming record, Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016. It’s an intimate track between White, his guitar and detailing a narrative in a way only Jack White can. It’s an immediate classic for an individual who has been at the forefront of the industry for decades on end.
In the liner notes for the album, Greil Marcus (journalist) writes about the song, “There’s a counterpoint in the sweeping ‘Carolina Drama,’ from the Raconteurs’ 2008 album Consolers of the Lonely, here with the original drum track dropped, so that the uncanny sensation that can make a traditional old-time murder ballad come across as a ghost story stands out. With guitar that sneaks in through banjo and fiddle from the Rolling Stones’ ‘Sister Morphine,’ this is a frighteningly present-day murder ballad, with a shaggy dog punchline-and so musically in tune with the tradition it claims and affirms you don’t need to listen to the words to follow the story, which gets bigger, bigger, voices joining from all across the horizon of the song, White’s vocal speeding up as if to keep up with the haunts that are already disappearing around the bend of the tune, into a world you’d just as soon not enter.”
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