I could front load this post with links to other stories proving how busy Jack White is right now, but given that the dude has something going on everyday, you already know that. Here's the latest tasty tidbit from la vida de Jack White: He was recently named to the 46-member Music Business Council, a council in Nashville that advises the mayor on how to keep the city as musical as possible. White is synonymous with Detroit garage rock, but he recently opened a record store and label in Nashville, and has been living there for a few years.
Among the other members on the Music Business Council are Emmylou Harris, and Brooks from Brooks and Dunn. White is probably the biggest non-country fish in the pond. Current projects being considered by the council are a downtown ampitheater, the expansion of the CMA Music Festival, the enhancement of music education and the creation of a new-non-country festival, which is where, presumably, White comes in.
In the mean time, White's current side project The Dead Weather have an album, Horehound, coming out on July 14, and a tour later this summer, so any mayoral advising might be a way off in the future. [Pitchfork]


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