Article: The White Stripes, White Blood Cells.(Sound Recording Review)

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Bass players cringe at the very notion of a band without bass. You wanna leap on to the stage, whip out your Fender Jazz Special, plug into a Bassman head sitting on top of a big ol' JBL EL 40, and show `em what it's about. You give `em the eye, "What were you thinking?" But guitarists going it with only a drummer in tow somehow seem to pull it off: Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott's House of Freaks, Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, even Junior Kimbrough all eschewed the bottom end (Kimbrough would glare back, "Jes another mout' to feed ...'). So it is with The White Stripes, brother and sister Jack (guitar, piano) and Meg (drums) White, born and bred in ...

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