Blog: Chipped Hip

Is there anybody who has benefitted more from Jack White's bizarre string of side projects than Jack Lawrence? A few years ago, the bassist was languishing in obscurity with the hard-toiling, little-known blues trio the Greenhornes . Then, White recruited him and fellow Greenhorne Patrick Keeler to play in the Do Whaters, Loretta Lynn 's backing band for her 2004 album Van Lear Rose . A year later, Lawrence and Keeler became the rhythm section of the Raconteurs , White's collaboration with singer-songwriter Brendan Benson . After the band released two albums and toured the [...]