The only type of rock music Jack White struggles to understand: “I begin to lose my connection”
Jack White says he struggles to connect with heavy metal when technical playing and sheer heaviness overshadow the blues and the feelings he looks for in music. His comments distinguish that sound from metal as a whole, and reflect his view that a few notes can carry more emotion than elaborate playing.
White points to Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore as musicians whose heavy sound still grew from the blues. He describes them as extending the English blues boom of the 1960s into heavier territory. The article links his preference to the idea that performers should feel the emotions they convey.
- White finds some technically focused metal hard to connect with.
- He values the blues emotion he hears in music.
- He sees Page, Iommi and Blackmore as heavy blues successors.