
"I've got three fathers: my biological dad, God, and Bob Dylan," said Jack White once of the poet laureate of rock, with whom he has since shared the stage and collaborated on an album of music written for unreleased Hank Williams lyrics that has yet to surface. It's fitting, then, that Dylan's songs have been adapted by Jack White and his White Stripes, Dead Weather, and other Third Man bandmates so seamlessly — a near-hereditary passing of the torch, perhaps. Notably, Dylan played an important role in White's early career as well: granting permission for the Stripes to cover [...]

One of the coolest thing about the White Stripes is that they seem to love doing just about anything they want with their music. The more successful they become, the more independent and innovative they try to be. I mean, Icky Thump had bag pipes on it. When you look through their song catalog (and exhaustive list of live sets,) it becomes pretty apparent that they love doing covers, and one artist's name that appears more than other: Bob Dylan. Both Jack and Meg have expressed how influential Bob Dylan was on their music, more than just [...]
Sometimes I like to wonder what I was doing while other, amazing things were going on. I'm fairly sure that while Jack White and Bob Dylan were singing a song Dylan had never played live before last Wednesday (you know... after Elvis Costello did a surprise opening set), I was ...