Jack White’s creativity simply cannot stand still.
Over the past 12 months he dropped his sophomore solo record Lazaretto, not to mention releasing fresh material with The Dead Weather, constructed the sickest gig poster ever as well as suiting-up a surprise for this year’s Record Store Day – and as Factmag point out, he’s got another musical venture that’s set to stun.
The garage blues extraordinaire is producing a three-part documentary and a feature-length film entitled The American Epic Sessions, which is set to air this year that will focus on the birth of modern music in the US, as talent scouts toured America in the ’20s and ’30s with a special recording machine that for the first time captured the music that would eventually become the titanic worlds of gospel, blues and country.
White, speaking of the forthcoming series, mentioned that the phonograph gave the underprivileged and oppressed a chance to speak their mind in song, “What they were allowed to say on phonograph recordings, they were not allowed to speak in public or in person, that is an astounding thought.”
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Of course, White isn’t alone in this creation, having enlisted the likes of T Bone Burnett and Robert Redford to help produce the visual tomes, Redford commenting on the documentary “this is America’s greatest untold story, it’s an account of the cultural revolution that ultimately united a nation.”
The film’s itself features a star-studded list of musicians including Elton John, Nas, Alabama Shakes, Willie Nelson and more who all recreate the ever-important 1920s and ’30s music and naturally, White’s label Third Man Records will release a deluxe vinyl box set of The American Epic Sessions recordings.
Watch the captivating trailer for American Epic right here:
