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Get Behind Me Satan

Release Date: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Artist: 
The White Stripes
Star Rating: 
★★★★★
Clearly, Jack White wishes he were a black bluesman from the 1920s instead of a stringy-haired rocker from Detroit. (Who can blame him? It’s Detroit.) On Get Behind Me Satan, White plays like a man who sold his soul to the devil to become the world’s best guitarist. The devil got the short end of the deal. Like an evil Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band, Get Behind Me has a washboard-playin’, tub-thumpin’, mudhole-stompin’ vibe—except that it’s Jack White, so it rocks real hard and has a lot of marimba. Really.