Song · Jack White
“Taking Me Back” by Jack White
From the album Fear of the Dawn (2022)
“Taking Me Back” by Jack White appears on 17 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2021 and 2022. It was first released in 2022 on the album Fear of the Dawn. Its best result is #3 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #12 alternative song of 2021 and #40 of the '20s.
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"Taking Me Back" broke more than three years of solo silence from Jack White when it dropped on 18 October 2021, and it went on to lead off his 2022 album Fear of the Dawn. It's a one-man demolition job: White played everything on it, guitar, bass, drums, percussion and synthesizers, produced it himself and mixed it with Bill Skibbe and Joshua V. Smith.
The arrangement is lean, but nothing in it sits still: effects-mangled guitar sawing against the drums, White's voice jumping like he's grabbed a live wire, and an instrumental stretch near the end that keeps the groove locked while everything around it goes haywire. Hard rock with garage dirt under its nails. The flip side, a gentler acoustic take called "Taking Me Back (Gently)", doubled as the first taste of Entering Heaven Alive, his other album that year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
Also listed as: Taking Me Back (Gently).
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