“I wasn’t prepared. He had a big Mercedes, with a custom sound system, and he drove like hell through Nashville traffic, with Slim Harpo at defcon 1 volume.”

— Jack White

Ry Cooder, music producer Wilkinson, Alec (March 13, 2017), "JACK WHITE’S INFINITE IMAGINATION" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/jack-whites-infinite-imagination. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 6, 2017. About

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