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Mrs. Jack White, Karen Elson, details solo debut

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    There’s a lot going on in the world of Jack White these days. (Actually, isn’t there always?). Well, you can also say the same about his wife, Karen Elson, who will release her full-length solo debut on May 24th via White’s personal imprint Third Man Records.

    Titled The Ghost Who Walks, the record was reportedly written inside a closet in her and White’s Nashville bedroom. Upon completion, Elson hit the studio with a backing ensemble that include The Dead Weather’s Jack Lawrence on bass, My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel on pedal steel, Rachelle Garniez on accordion and vocals, and her brother-in-law Jackson Smith, son of Patti, on guitar. Jack also of course had a hand, playing drums.

    Asked in a recent interview with WWD whether her career as a model or relationship with White would cause some to not take the album seriously, Elson noted that “I was unbearably concerned and insecure about that, and that’s what has taken me so long to put a record out.”

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    She continued: “Model-slash-anything is just such a [stigma], which is a shame because I know so many ridiculously talented models. It’s just the connotation of the word ‘model.’ If you said waitress-slash-singer or secretary-slash-singer, it’s all fine. [But] this album wasn’t some sort of vanity project where I said, ‘Hey, Jack, let’s make a record so I can be a singer now.’ I worked incredibly hard at making it legitimate.” So, there you go all you reverse-contrarian hipsters!

    Find The Ghost Who Walks‘ tracklist below, as well as video from Elson’s recent acoustic performance at Los Angeles venue Laurel Canyon.

    The Ghost Who Walks Tracklist:
    01. The Ghost Who Walks
    02. The Truth Is The Dirt
    03. Pretty Babies
    04. Lunasa
    05. 100 Years From Now
    06. Stolen Roses
    07. Garden
    08. Cruel Summer
    09. The Birds They Circle
    10. A Thief At My Door
    11. The Last Laugh
    12. Mouths To Feed

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