Jack White made it a family affair during his performance at the Brooklyn Paramount this past Saturday. The musician brought out his daughter Scarlett to play bass during his crushing delivery of the White Stripes’ 1999 track “Cannon.”
The budding artist took to the stage in a black dress and kept it cool while her father rocked out to the single from the White Stripes’ titular debut album, which interpolates the gospel blue song “John the Revelator.” Jack and Scarlett also played fan favorite “Black Math” from the band’s fourth studio album, Elephant.
White, who has a no-set list rule for his live shows, spoke with Rolling Stone in 2018 about how he decides what to play on the fly. Speaking about his May show at the Austin360 Amphitheater that year, White called “Cannon” a “MacGuffin – it’s like a placeholder for me to take a breath and let the crowd have a groove for a second and then break into a different song.” He added, “That night, it’s one of those things I played for 40 seconds and then we went into ‘Broken Boy Soldiers,’ the Raconteurs song.”
White, who celebrated his 51st birthday last week, is on tour in support of his eighth solo album, Frozen Charlotte. (He recently invited “satanic” band Twin Temple to open his Los Angeles show on Sept. 29 at the Hollywood Palladium.) Rolling Stone praised his new LP, declaring White’s latest project “very much a rage for these times, 13 songs of perpetual disorder, challenged connections, and idealism under siege.”
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