Post by Baronessa on Sept 23, 2019 21:07:16 GMT
Photo by Rich Fury
John Anthony Gillis (9 July 1975)
Member of: The Upholsterers (2000), The White Stripes (1997 - 2011), The Raconteurs (2005...), The Dead Weather (2009...)
Vocal Range: C2 - A6
The music industry's resident scraggly hermit, Jack White is one of the most impressive singer-songwriters around. Not necessarily because of technical finesse but because of his way of finding new paths in tinkering with blueprints of rock 'n' roll that were long since abandoned by more commercially-minded artists. Jack's timid, almost schoolboy-esque, vocal tone might sow incredulity in the minds of listeners at first, but perusing his discography one will uncover an unlikely beast with a range to behold. With his roots in Gen-X-blues, Jack is known to systematically seek out patterns and expectations, and subvert them and turn them upside down with his adenoidal diction, neurotic delivery and extensive use of whistle voice.
Mercurial as he is, as Jack's songwriting evolves, his vocals grow more unapologetic, he can be heard laying out the future of his vocals on 2018's Boarding House Reach -- a divisive effort that nonetheless encapsulates Jack's experimental, yet ultimately fun-loving, ethos at its purest. From his surprisingly dark low notes to thin, tenor-like belting, and using his whistle register in more technical ways, Boarding House Reach goes seemingly out of its way to show everything Jack's voice is capable of. He can even be heard rapping semi-credibly on his new material, all to the tune of a form of rock 'n' roll long-thought-dead, rejuvenated in the form of Jack's songwriting. Indeed, it is because of this unabashed love for experimentation with the past that, even beyond his heyday, Jack White continues to be one of the most important spearheaders of rock 'n' roll in the now.
{Vocal Range Timeline}Alex61
The White Stripes:
De Stijl (2000): C3 - B♭4 - B5
Elephant (2003): B2 - C♯5 - B♭5
The Raconteurs:
Broken Boy Soldiers (2006): C3 - F5
Consolers of the Lonely (2008): D3 - D5 - C6
Jack White:
Lazaretto (2014): E♭3 - C5 - F♯6
Baronessa
The White Stripes:
The White Stripes (1999): C3 - C5 - B5
White Blood Cells (2001): D3 - B4
Get Behind Me Satan (2005): G2 - E5 - G5
Icky Thump (2007): G2 - D5 - A5
The Raconteurs:
Help Us Stranger (2019): E2 - C♯5 - F♯6
The Dead Weather:
Horehound (2009): D3 - D5
Sea of Cowards (2010): D3 - D5
Dodge and Burn (2015): D3 - D5 - E6
Jack White:
Blunderbuss (2012): A2 - E5 - B5
Boarding House Reach (2018): C2 - D5 - G♯6
Fear of the Dawn (2022): D2 - C♯5 - G♯6
Entering Heaven Alive (2022): E♭2 - C5 - F6
The White Stripes:
De Stijl (2000): C3 - B♭4 - B5
Elephant (2003): B2 - C♯5 - B♭5
The Raconteurs:
Broken Boy Soldiers (2006): C3 - F5
Consolers of the Lonely (2008): D3 - D5 - C6
Jack White:
Lazaretto (2014): E♭3 - C5 - F♯6
Baronessa
The White Stripes:
The White Stripes (1999): C3 - C5 - B5
White Blood Cells (2001): D3 - B4
Get Behind Me Satan (2005): G2 - E5 - G5
Icky Thump (2007): G2 - D5 - A5
The Raconteurs:
Help Us Stranger (2019): E2 - C♯5 - F♯6
The Dead Weather:
Horehound (2009): D3 - D5
Sea of Cowards (2010): D3 - D5
Dodge and Burn (2015): D3 - D5 - E6
Jack White:
Blunderbuss (2012): A2 - E5 - B5
Boarding House Reach (2018): C2 - D5 - G♯6
Fear of the Dawn (2022): D2 - C♯5 - G♯6
Entering Heaven Alive (2022): E♭2 - C5 - F6
Significant High Notes:
A6 ("Corporation" Beale Street Festival, Memphis, TN 5 May 2018)
G♯6 ("Battle Cry", "Corporation", "Eosophobia")
G6 ("Corporation", "Taking Me Back", "What's the Trick?" iHeart Radio Alter EGO 2023)
F♯6 ("Help Me Stranger", "Lazaretto", "Over and Over and Over", "That Was Then, This Is Now")
F6 ("Connected by Love", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)")
E6 ("Don't Hurt Yourself", "Respect Commander", "Three Dollar Hat")
E♭6 ("Rough Detective")
D6 ("Hold Up", "Ice Station Zebra", "Shine the Light on Me", "Sunday Driver", "The White Raven", "The Wind Did Move")
C♯6 ("Battle Cry", "Open Up (That's Enough)", "Three Women")
C6 ("Five on the Five", "Hold Up", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life")
B5 ("Let's Build a Home", "Respect Commander", "Salute Your Solution", "Sixteen Saltines", "Stop Breaking Down")
B♭5 ("Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine", "Jimmy the Exploder", "Lazaretto", "The White Raven")
A5 ("Consoler of the Lonely", "High Ball Stepper", "Just One Drink", "Rag and Bone", "Screwdriver")
G♯5 ("Conquest", "Jimmy the Exploder")
G5 ("Connected by Love", "Instinct Blues")
F♯5 ("Broken Bricks")
F5 ("Blue Veins", "Ice Station Zebra")
E5 ("Bored and Razed", "Carolina Drama", "Corporation", "Don't Bother Me", "Over and Over and Over", "Red Rain", "Sixteen Saltines")
E♭5 ("Two Against One")
D5 ("Be Still", "Blue Orchid", "Die by the Drop", "Five on the Five", "Hi-De-Ho", "Hypermisophoniac", "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep", "I'm Slowly Turning Into You", "Ice Station Zebra", "Icky Thump", "Jolene" Under Great White Northern Lights, "Red Rain", "Rocking Horse", "Salute Your Solution", "Screwdriver", "That Black Bat Licorice", "Three Dollar Hat")
C♯5 ("Bone Broke", "Bored and Razed", "Hustle and Cuss", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "Love is Blindness", "Red Rain", "That Was Then, This Is Now", "There's No Home for You Here", "Top Yourself", "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)")
C5 ("The Big Three Killed My Baby", "Black Math", "Blue Veins", "Broken Boy Soldier", "Broken Bricks", "The Denial Twist", "Effect and Cause", "I Cut Like a Buffalo", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)", "I'm Slowly Turning Into You", "Ice Station Zebra", "Instinct Blues", "Intimate Secretary", "Just One Drink", "Little People", "Old Enough", "Pain (Gimme Sympathy)", "Please God, Don't Tell Anyone", "Rag and Bone", "Screwdriver", "The Switch and the Spur", "Take Me With You When You Go", "Treat Me Like Your Mother", "Two Against One", "The World", "Would You Fight for My Love?")
B4 ("Another Way to Die", "Apple of My Eye", "Attention", "Blue Blood Blues", "Bone Broke", "Broken Boy Soldier", "Cannon", "Corporation", "Die by the Drop", "Do", "Don't Bother Me", "Eosophobia", "Everything You've Ever Learned", "Fear of the Dawn", "Freedom at 21", "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine", "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy", "Hold Up", "Hustle and Cuss", "I Ain't Superstitious", "I Fought Piranhas", "I Think I Found the Culprit", "I Think I Smell a Rat", "I'm Shakin'", "Icky Thump", "Instinct Blues", "Last Kind Word Blues", "Little Ghost", "Looking at the Invisible Man", "Missing Pieces", "Morning, Noon and Night", "Over and Over and Over", "Pull This Blanket Off", "Rich Kid Blues", "Rocking Horse", "Rough Detective", "Salute Your Solution", "Seven Nation Army", "Shine the Light on Me", "Sixteen Saltines", "Steady, As She Goes" Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland 7 July 2008, "Stop Breaking Down", "Take Me With You When You Go", "Taking Me Back", "That Black Bat Licorice", "Three Dollar Hat", "Together", "Trash Tongue Talker", "The Union Forever", "Wasting My Time", "What's Yours Is Mine", "When I Hear My Name", "The Wind Did Move", "Yellow Sun", "You Don't Understand Me")
B♭4 ("All Along the Way", "Be Still", "The Big Three Killed My Baby", "Blue Orchid", "Connected by Love", "Consoler of the Lonely", "Conquest", "Five on the Five", "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)", "Hands", "Hello Operator", "Help Me Along", "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)", "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)", "If I Die Tomorrow", "Intimate Secretary", "Jimmy the Exploder", "Lazaretto", "Level", "Love is Blindness", "Missing Pieces", "My Doorbell", "Now That You're Gone", "Offend in Every Way", "Pain (Gimme Sympathy)", "The Rose With the Broken Neck", "Sister, Do You Know My Name?", "Slicker Drips", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "Store Bought Bones", "Sugar Never Tasted So Good", "A Tip from You to Me", "Three Women", "Top Yourself", "The Union Forever", "Would You Fight for My Love?")
A4 ("2 Fingers of Whiskey", "Apple Blossom", "Apple of My Eye", "Astro", "Black Math", "Blue Veins", "Blunderbuss", "Bone House", "Bored and Razed", "Broken Bricks", "Cannon", "Carolina Drama", "Catch Hell Blues", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Die by the Drop", "Do", "Don't Bother Me", "Don't Hurt Yourself", "Effect and Cause", "Entitlement", "Everything You've Ever Learned", "Expecting", "Fell in Love With a Girl", "Fly Farm Blues", "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine", "Help Me Along", "Help Me Stranger", "Hi-De-Ho", "Hotel Yorba", "Hustle and Cuss", "Hypermisophoniac", "Hypnotize", "Hypocritical Kiss", "I Ain't Superstitious", "I Can't Wait", "I Cut Like a Buffalo", "I Fought Piranhas", "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "I Think I Smell a Rat", "I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart", "I'm Bound to Pack It Up", "If I Die Tomorrow", "Jolene" Under Great White Northern Lights, "Jumble, Jumble", "Last Kind Word Blues", "Let's Build a Home", "Little Ghost", "Little People", "Love Interruption", "New Pony", "Now That You're Gone", "The Nurse", "Old Enough", "Old Mary", "On and on and On", "One More Cup of Coffee", "Only Child", "Open Up (That's Enough)", "Portland, Oregon", "Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn", "Pull This Blanket Off", "Rag and Bone", "Respect Commander", "The Rose With the Broken Neck", "Rough Detective", "The Same Boy You've Always Known", "Screwdriver", "Shedding My Velvet", "Shine the Light on Me", "Sister, Do You Know My Name?", "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)", "Stop Breaking Down", "Sunday Driver", "Suzy Lee", "That Black Bat Licorice", "That Was Then, This Is Now", "There's No Home for You Here", "This Protector", "A Tip from You to Me", "Thoughts and Prayers", "Three Dollar Hat", "Trash Tongue Talker", "Treat Me Like Your Mother", "Want and Able", "Wasting My Time", "Weep Themselves to Sleep", "What's the Trick?", "The White Raven", "Why Can't You Be Nicer to Me?", "The Wind Did Move", "The World", "Yellow Sun", "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", "You've Got Her in Your Pocket")
G♯4 ("Alone in My Home", "Blue Blood Blues", "Bone House", "Death Letter", "Fear of the Dawn", "Fell in Love With a Girl", "Fly Farm Blues", "Freedom at 21", "Hold Up", "Hypnotize", "I Can Learn", "I'm Shakin'", "Little Bird", "Love Interruption", "Mama's Angel Child", "My Doorbell", "Pain (Gimme Sympathy)", "Rocking Horse", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "Together", "Two Against One", "Weep Themselves to Sleep", "What's Yours Is Mine", "When I Hear My Name", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life")
G4 ("300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues", "All Along the Way", "Another Way to Die", "As Ugly as I Seem", "Astro", "Be Still", "Blue Blood Blues", "Blue Orchid", "Blunderbuss", "Call It a Day", "Catch Hell Blues", "Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over", "Connected by Love", "Conquest", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "The Denial Twist", "Expecting", "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)", "The Hardest Button to Button", "Help Me Stranger", "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)", "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy", "Hotel Yorba", "Hypermisophoniac", "Hypocritical Kiss", "I Can't Wait", "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", "I Think I Found the Culprit", "I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart", "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman", "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)", "If I Die Tomorrow", "Intimate Secretary", "Into the Twilight", "Jimmy the Exploder", "Level", "Little Acorns", "Little Cream Soda", "Looking at the Invisible Man", "Love Is Selfish", "A Madman from Manhattan", "Missing Pieces", "New Pony", "Now Mary", "The Nurse", "Offend in Every Way", "On and on and On", "One More Cup of Coffee", "Only Child", "Please God, Don't Tell Anyone", "Portland, Oregon", "Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn", "Rough Detective", "The Same Boy You've Always Known", "Seven Nation Army", "Shedding My Velvet", "Slicker Drips", "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)", "Sugar Never Tasted So Good", "Sunday Driver", "Suzy Lee", "Take Me With You When You Go", "Take, Take Take", "This Protector", "Thoughts and Prayers", "What's the Trick?", "Would You Fight for My Love?", "Yellow Sun", "You Know That I Know")
Significant Low Notes
F3 ("Christmas Time Will Soon Be Over", "Connected by Love", "Conquest", "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)", "Great High Mountain", "Hello Operator", "Help Me Along", "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)", "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy", "Hypermisophoniac", "I Cut Like a Buffalo", "I'm Slowly Turning Into You", "Love is Blindness", "My Doorbell", "The Nurse", "Offend in Every Way", "Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn", "Rich Kid Blues", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "Sugar Never Tasted So Good", "The Union Forever", "What's Done Is Done", "Will There Be Enough Water", "The World", "Would You Fight for My Love?", "Your Southern Can Is Mine")
E3 ("300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues", "The Air Near My Fingers", "Alone in My Home", "Another Way to Die", "As Ugly as I Seem", "Ball and Biscuit", "Blue Blood Blues", "Bored and Razed", "Cannon", "Carolina Drama", "Don't Hurt Yourself", "Effect and Cause", "Entitlement", "Eosophobia", "Everything You've Ever Learned", "Fly Farm Blues", "Help Me Stranger", "Hypocritical Kiss", "I Ain't Superstitious", "I Can Learn", "I Can't Wait", "I Think I Smell a Rat", "I'm Shakin'", "Instinct Blues", "Just One Drink", "Little Ghost", "Love Interruption", "A Martyr for My Love for You", "Morning, Noon and Night", "Never Far Away", "Now That You're Gone", "On and on and On", "One More Cup of Coffee", "Only Child", "Over and Over and Over", "Queen of the Bees", "Rocking Horse", "Salute Your Solution", "Shedding My Velvet", "So Far from Your Weapon", "Temporary Ground", "There's No Home for You Here", "These Stones Will Shout", "This Protector", "Three Dollar Hat", "The Union Forever", "Wasting My Time", "Well It's True That We Love One Another", "White Moon", "Why Walk a Dog", "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)", "You Don't Understand Me", "You Know That I Know")
E♭3 ("A Boy's Best Friend", "Great High Mountain", "Hands", "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)", "Three Women", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life", "Your Southern Can Is Mine")
D3 ("All Along the Way", "Blue Blood Blues", "Catch Hell Blues", "Effect and Cause", "Ezmerelda Steals the Show", "Get in the Mind Shaft", "Hi-De-Ho", "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy", "Humoresque", "Hypermisophoniac", "Hypocritical Kiss", "I Can't Wait", "I Cut Like a Buffalo", "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep", "I Think I Found the Culprit", "Ice Station Zebra", "If I Die Tomorrow", "Into the Twilight", "A Madman from Manhattan", "Mama's Angel Child", "A Martyr for My Love for You", "Morning, Noon and Night", "The Nurse", "Only Child", "Over and Over and Over", "Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn", "Respect Commander", "Shedding My Velvet", "This Protector", "That Black Bat Licorice", "That Was Then, This Is Now", "These Stones Will Shout", "Thoughts and Prayers", "Three Dollar Hat", "Wayfaring Stranger", "What's Done Is Done", "Why Walk a Dog", "Will There Be Enough Water", "The World")
C♯3 ("A Boy's Best Friend", "I'm Down", "Mama's Angel Child", "What's Yours Is Mine")
C3 ("A Boy's Best Friend", "Call It a Day", "Catch Hell Blues", "Help Me Along", "Humoresque", "Ice Station Zebra", "If I Die Tomorrow", "The Rose With the Broken Neck", "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "A Tree on Fire from Within", "Two Against One", "Wayfaring Stranger")
B2 ("Ball and Biscuit", "Ezmerelda Steals the Show", "I'm Down", "A Madman from Manhattan", "That Black Bat Licorice", "You Are the Sunshine of My Life")
B♭2 ("All Along the Way", "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)", "Get in the Mind Shaft", "Help Me Along", "I'm Slowly Turning Into You", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)", "Two Against One")
A2 ("Help Me Stranger", "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep", "Into the Twilight", "Little Ghost", "The Rose With the Broken Neck", "Shine the Light on Me", "Thoughts and Prayers", "A Tree on Fire from Within", "The Wind Did Move")
G♯2 ("What's Yours Is Mine")
G2 ("All Along the Way", "Conquest", "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)", "The Nurse", "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)", "What's Yours Is Mine")
F♯2 ("The Star-Spangled Banner" Highline Park, New York City 24 June 2011)
E2 ("Over and Over and Over", "Shine the Light on Me")
E♭2 ("I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)")
D2 ("Respect Commander", "Shedding My Velvet", "The White Raven")
C2 ("Everything You've Ever Learned")
{Questionable Notes}D7 ("The Wind Did Move"[1a])
B6 ("I'm Shakin'"[2a])
B♭6 ("Love is Blindness"[2a])
A6 ("I Cut Like a Buffalo"[1b], "Rough Detective"[3a])
E♭6 ("Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)"[2b])
B5 ("Cannon"[2b], "Morning, Noon and Night"[2b])
B♭5 ("Please God, Don't Tell Anyone"[1a])
A5 ("Astro"[2b], "Weep Themselves to Sleep"[2b])
G5 ("Hi-De-Ho"[2b], "What's the Trick?"[1c])
F♯5 ("Fear of the Dawn"[2c])
E5 ("Taking Me Back"[2c])
A2 ("Catch Hell Blues"[2d], "Rag and Bone"[2d])
G2 ("Into the Twilight"[3b], "Love Is Selfish"[2d])
G1 ("Everything You've Ever Learned"[1d])
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[1] Questionable quality
a. Brief, erratic squeals
b. Inhaled, crackly whistles
c. You tell me
d. Breathy, fryish dips
[2] Questionable representativeness
a. Short whistle squeaks
b. Short falsetto exclamations
c. Brief scoop upwards
d. Spoken
[3] Questionable legitimacy
a. Ambiguous bird calls
b. Probably a sample
B6 ("I'm Shakin'"[2a])
B♭6 ("Love is Blindness"[2a])
A6 ("I Cut Like a Buffalo"[1b], "Rough Detective"[3a])
E♭6 ("Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)"[2b])
B5 ("Cannon"[2b], "Morning, Noon and Night"[2b])
B♭5 ("Please God, Don't Tell Anyone"[1a])
A5 ("Astro"[2b], "Weep Themselves to Sleep"[2b])
G5 ("Hi-De-Ho"[2b], "What's the Trick?"[1c])
F♯5 ("Fear of the Dawn"[2c])
E5 ("Taking Me Back"[2c])
A2 ("Catch Hell Blues"[2d], "Rag and Bone"[2d])
G2 ("Into the Twilight"[3b], "Love Is Selfish"[2d])
G1 ("Everything You've Ever Learned"[1d])
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[1] Questionable quality
a. Brief, erratic squeals
b. Inhaled, crackly whistles
c. You tell me
d. Breathy, fryish dips
[2] Questionable representativeness
a. Short whistle squeaks
b. Short falsetto exclamations
c. Brief scoop upwards
d. Spoken
[3] Questionable legitimacy
a. Ambiguous bird calls
b. Probably a sample
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• Blue marks falsetto and whistle notes.
• Bold marks outstanding passages.
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark obscured notes.
Other Contributors:
Holsety
Platypus
Rodney Blazershorts
