“Lazaretto” by Jack White

"Lazaretto" is the title track and first single from Jack White's second solo album, and he pulled a stunt with it in 2014: a live version was recorded, pressed and released all on the same day, with a cover of Elvis Presley's "Power of My Love" on the flip. White has said the arrangement took its cue from MC Lyte's 1989 hit "Cha Cha Cha", which explains the strut.

He wrote it, sings it, plays electric guitar, produced it and mixed it with Joshua Smith, and his band goes for broke behind him: Daru Jones on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, Fats Kaplin's fiddle sawing away, Ikey Owens on Moog and Cory Younts on synthesizer. The result is dense, manic and gloriously over the top, and critics hailed it as one of his funkiest grooves since "Seven Nation Army".

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