Horehound is the debut studio album by American rock band The Dead Weather. It was released on July 10 in Australia, July 13 in Europe, and July 14, 2009 in North America. The album was recorded at Third Man Studios during a three week session in January 2009. The first single from the album, "Hang You from the Heavens", was released through iTunes on March 11, 2009, and on vinyl on April 18, 2009. "Treat Me Like Your Mother" was released as the second single from the album on May 25, 2009. The third single from the album was set to be "I Cut Like A Buffalo" and includes a cover of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band's "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning to Death" as a B-side.. The album debuted at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Charts and at #14 on the UK Album Charts.

Charts

Personnel

*Alison Mosshart – vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion

*Jack White – drums, vocals, guitar, production

*Dean Fertita – lead guitar, organ, piano, synthesizer, bass, backing vocals

*Jack Lawrence – bass, guitar, drums, backing vocals

References

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Artist/Band Information

The Dead Weather are an American alternative rock supergroup formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Composed of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes), The Dead Weather debuted at the opening of Third Man Records' Nashville headquarters on March 11, 2009. The band performed live for the first time at the event, immediately before releasing their debut single "Hang You from the Heavens".

The band's second studio album, Sea of Cowards, was released first in Ireland on May 7, then on May 10 and 11 in the UK and US respectively. The first single off the album, "Die by the Drop", was released March 30.

History

Formation

When The Raconteurs were performing in Memphis, Jack White lost his voice and the band asked Alison Mosshart, of The Kills who were warming up, to finish singing some of the songs. She sang lead vocals on Steady as She Goes and Salute Your Salution, later White asked her if she would record a 7 inch with him and Jack Lawrence. They met Dean Fertita at the studio and they ended up performing more than one song that night.

Ultimately they decided to form a band with Alison as their frontwoman, Lawrence on bass, Fertita on guitar and keyboard and White on drums. Jack White claims he wanted to play the drums in the band because after playing drums on Another Way to Die with Alicia Keys he became more interested in drumming. He also felt that playing lead guitar in another band would be too repetitive and saw it as an opportunity to do something different.

Horehound

In January 2009, Mosshart, Fertita, Lawrence, and White got together for an impromptu jam at White's Third Man studio. The session was followed by two and a half weeks of song writing and recording, during which The Dead Weather formed.Rayner, Ben. "The Weather Makers. Interview: The Dead Weather." Toronto Star, 19 July 2009 Said White: "Things just started to happen. We didn't have a direction. We just went a song a day, two songs a day, whatever we could do and recorded them on the fly... There was no time to think about what it was. It just was."

The Dead Weather's debut album, Horehound, was released on July 14, 2009 in North America, and July 13 in Europe. It entered the U.S. Billboard 200 Album Charts at #6 and the UK Album Charts at #14. Three tracks from Horehound ("No Hassle Night", "Hang You from the Heavens", and "Treat Me Like Your Mother") were made available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on the same day as the North American release.

Jack White co-directed a short film documentary about The Dead Weather called Full Flash Blank. It contains exclusive interviews of the band members and performances of "60 Feet Tall", "I Cut Like A Buffalo" and "Treat Me Like Your Mother". Full Flash Blank was shown on Channel 4 straight after the showing of Later . . . With Jools Holland, which featured The Dead Weather performing their first three singles.

Sea of Cowards

The Dead Weather Glastonbury 2009-1.jpgrightthumbWhite and Mosshart performing live at the Glastonbury Festival.

On October 16, 2009, Alison Mosshart confirmed that a second album was "halfway done". Later, White revealed in an interview that the band is hoping to have 20 to 25 songs ready for their Australasian tour in March 2010. www.ultimate-guitar.com Retrived: 2010-01-21

On February 3, 2010, Jack White announced that the first single from the new album would be called "Blue Blood Blues." White will sing lead vocals on this track, which he confessed is "bluesier and heavier than we ever thought we could be." Jack White said later on the Third Man Vault's ModBlast chat that the first single is called "Die By The Drop.".

Sea Of Cowards was released officially on May 10th and May 11th in the US and the UK respectivly, but was first released on May 7th in Ireland. The album made it to number five in the US charts.

Rolling In On A Burning Tire

The Dead Weather have most recently been featured on track eight, Rolling In On A Burning Tire, of the Eclipse soundtrack for the Twilight Saga.

Band members

*Alison Mosshart; lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, keyboard

*Jack White; drums, lead vocals, guitar

*Dean Fertita; lead guitar, organ, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals

*Jack Lawrence; bass, drums, backing vocals

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