The Dead Weather was formed at the end of a long Raconteurs tour when Jack White
retreated back to his Nashville home with bandmate Jack Lawrence, Alison
Mosshart from support band The Kills and touring keyboardist Dean Fertita of
Queens of the Stone Age. An impromptu jam soon turned into an album's worth of
sleazy, gothic, bar-room blues inspired by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Captain
Beefheart and The Rolling Stones. Fronted by Mosshart with White on drums, debut
album Horehound (2009) strutted with snake-hipped, swampy voodoo; a lot darker,
sexier and more full-throttle than an...