Album of the Month - Horehound by Dead Weather

It is nice to hear Jack White rumble fearlessly through rock and roll with many a musical vehicle. While White does not take front and center in this band, Dead Weather, it is still a raw, gritty blues and garage rock explosion. Alison Mosshart of The Kills has a voice with striking resemblance to White that is both sexy (“No Hassle Night”) and rockin’ (“60 Feet Tall.”) However, she does not steal the show from White and on tracks like “Treat me Like Your Mother” they are at their best sharing the mic. Dean Fertita whom normally plays keys for Queens of the Stone Age provides some edgy guitar play and song writing on such tracks as “60 Feet Tall” and “Hang you from the Heavens.” “I Cut Like a Buffalo” is one of the best tracks on the album with punchy keys and chanting lyrics, unsurprisingly the only song White wrote on his own. “Rocking Horse” has a devilish country over tone as if it would fit in wonderfully in Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill. Although this is no White Stripes album I still highly recommend it to those of you who enjoy bands such as Black Mountain and Jack White bands.