Help Us Stranger

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Mighty Combo Returns with First New Album in Over A Decade!

The RaconteursJack White,Brendan Benson,Jack Lawrence, andPatrick Keeler are back with their long-awaited new album,Help Us Stranger, which serves as the Grammy-winning rock band’s third studio LP and first new release in more than a decade. The 12-track collection sees the mighty combo reassembled, stronger and perhaps even more vital than ever before as they continue to push rock ‘n’ roll forward into its future, bonding prodigious riffs, blues power, sinewy psychedelia, Detroit funk, and Nashville soul via Benson and White’s uncompromising songcraft and the band’s steadfast musical muscle. The pairwrote all of the songs onthe recordexcept the lone Donovan cover, “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness).” Recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, the album was produced byThe Raconteursand engineered byJoshua V. Smith. Keyboardist/multi-instrumentalistDean Fertita(The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age) andLillie Mae Rischeand her sisterScarlett Rischealso appear here. The album was mixed byVance PowellandThe Raconteursat Blackbird Studios in Nashville.

1. Bored and Razed
2. Help Me Stranger
3. Only Child
4. Don’t Bother Me
5. Shine The Light On Me
6. Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)
7. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)
8. Sunday Driver
9. Now That You’re Gone
10. Live A Lie
11. What’s Yours Is Mine
12. Thoughts and Prayers