Performer Notes

The White Stripes: Jack White , Meg White .
Personnel: Jack White (vocals, guitar, piano, marimba, tambourine); Meg White (vocals, drums, triangle, percussion, bells).
Audio Mixers: Jack White ; John Hampton.
Recording information: Third Man Studios, Detroit, MI (02/2005).
Between 2003's hugely successful ELEPHANT and 2005's GET BEHIND ME SATAN, White Stripes frontman Jack White produced Loretta Lynn's Grammy-winning VAN LEAR ROSE and contributed a handful of tracks to the bluegrass-heavy COLD MOUNTAIN soundtrack. While GET BEHIND ME SATAN certainly isn't a country album, it does highlight White's fascinatingly unpredictable nature. With the exception of a few songs (including the blistering single "Blue Orchid"), Jack leaves his electric six-string in the garage, opting to roam around with his acoustic guitar (as on the gentle "As Ugly As I Seem") or settle into a marimba- or piano-led melody. As always, Meg White is on hand with her wonderfully unpolished, cymbal-heavy drumming, providing the perfect foil for Jack's intense, mercurial presence. With its quirky narratives about ghosts, nurses, and Rita Hayworth, SATAN is a restless record, and the duo uses that energy to maximum effect, easily making this the White Stripes' most dynamic album to date.

Professional Reviews

Spin (p.63) - Ranked #18 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[The disc] feels less like a middle finger than an attempt to insulate the group from the bruising limelight."

Spin (p.101) - "[Jack White] manages to make songs that sound like harnessed truths, which is why the White Stripes generally make the best records in the contemporary world." - Grade: B

Uncut (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 - "White stays true to the band's aesthetic vision, while mapping multiple paths away from stagnation..."

CMJ (No. 916, p.4) - "Seems Jack and Meg have been spending time in the nursery fiddling with their old xylophones and marimbas in between their routine bloozeouts, power-pop aerobics and local band beat-downs."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.60) - Ranked #14 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[L]acerating blues and stricken balladry."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 - "'My Doorbell' is catchier than a four-pronged trout fly. 'Little Ghost' is an Appalachian knees-up straight out of the Harry Smith handbook."

Paste (magazine) - "[T]he album's focused restraint -- White wrote the better part of the record on an acoustic guitar -- achieves the heartfelt timelessness he was clearly after."

Album: Get Behind Me Satan
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Orchid
2)	Nurse, The
3)	My Doorbell
4)	Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
5)	Little Ghost
6)	Denial Twist, The
7)	White Moon
8)	Instinct Blues
9)	Passive Manipulation
10)	Take, Take, Take
11)	As Ugly as I Seem
12)	Red Rain
13)	I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

Album: Get Behind Me Satan
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Blue Orchid
2)	Nurse, The
3)	My Doorbell
4)	Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
5)	Little Ghost
6)	Denial Twist, The
7)	White Moon
8)	Instinct Blues
9)	Passive Manipulation
10)	Take, Take, Take
11)	As Ugly as I Seem
12)	Red Rain
13)	I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)