Jack White is the Quentin Tarantino of rock: his songs are always a homage to the music of earlier times, congenial appropriations full of clever quotes. In any case, with an album called “Entering Heaven Alive”, it is certainly no coincidence that in the seventies rock epic “A Trip From You To Me” the intermediate part bears a striking resemblance to the “And it makes me wonder” part from Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven”.
This record, which comes out just a few months after White’s fourth solo album, Fear Of The Dawn, even travels back to the ’30s in ‘Taking Me Back (Gently)’, but mostly White works his way down to ’70s rock . Between acoustic guitars and piano harmonies, wobbly electric piano sounds and crisp bass lines, folk and rock mix with references to Blue Öyster Cult (“All Along The Way”), The Doors (“I’ve Got You Surrounded [With My Love]’) and even Gilbert O’Sullivan (‘Help Me Along’). And it’s just a bit disturbing that these stylistic appropriations – like the Tarantinos – always have something self-satisfied.
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