Jack White's Wilder Side

His new LP includes hip-hop touring musicians and a lost White Stripes song

- Patrick Doyle

BEFORE JACK White walked into a New York recording studio, he issued himself a challenge: Spend only three days recording a new batch of songs with a group of musicians he had never played with. Many of them were from the hip-hop world – he had reached out to players he’d seen with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and others. “I had no idea if we’d be able to communicate musically,” White says. “It could’ve been a recipe for disaster. I think it would scare the hell out of most people, so it was very enticing to me.”