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Jack White Working With Dead Weather Again Before White Stripes

Jack White, singer/guitarist for the White Stripes and Raconteurs and drummer/co-vocalist for the Dead Weather, told RollingStone.com this week that the Dead Weather is ready to record its second album less than a year after the July arrival of its first, Horehound. White said, "We'll probably be having a new album by (March), if we're lucky. We have a lot of songs cooking right now, we've been playing a few of them live and I'm sure by March the entire 20 or 25 songs will be onstage by then." White was more cryptic about a new White Stripes effort, telling MTV News, "The White Stripes record is going to be these two guys" -- indicating Dead Weather bassist Jack Lawrence and guitarist Dean Fertita -- "dressed as me and Meg (White, White Stripes drummer), so we'll see if something interesting comes out of that." White did confirm that he was working as a producer with '50s rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson, saying, "I just finished recording with Wanda Jackson in Nashville. It was just supposed to be a seven-inch (single), but we did a lot more songs, so maybe it will be something bigger. There was a lot of good stuff. It's a wild record." White's last such project was a Grammy-winning collaboration with country pioneer Loretta Lynn on her 2004 album Van Lear Rose. Finally, White said that he didn't remember getting a request to sing on the new star-studded solo album from Slash -- which the guitarist says White turned down -- but admitted that albums stuffed with guest performers didn't really appeal to him: "I love Slash -- Appetite (For Destruction) is one of the best rock albums of the past 20, 30 years . . . but, you know, I don't really like those albums where ...

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