I Cut Like A Buffalo - Dead Weather
The song is taken from the debut album of Jack White’s newest music creation, Dead Weather. The album Horehound was released this year and is already set to be followed with a second installment.
“We’ll probably be having a new album by that time, if we’re lucky. We have a lot of songs cooking right now, we’ve been playing a few of them live and I’m sure by March the entire 20 or 25 songs will be onstage by then,” Jack White told Rolling Stone. “We can’t tell you that much about it except that it’s gonna be really expansive, and I use that word loosely in a scientific sense, meaning that I’m just using it to distract you.”
The blues-rock that White has charged this song with has all the sinister and sleaze-guitar that a modern remake of a noir-black movie could feature. You can almost picture the blond lady sitting in a bar smoking a long cigarette, curling her corrupt exhales into mesmerizing swirls and circles, as men in their dark suits and hats, eye her from the corner tables.
The song features a synth-effect rap attack on vocal antics as Alison Mosshart and White combine forces with a wicked guitar that is squealing and screeching like it was being twisted into the corrupting smoke of a dangerously irresistible woman. And of course the electric organ additions nod in respect to the classic rock legacies that were the White muses.
The pace of the song has a reggae style off-beat that almost catches you off guard and it is very possible that Dead Weather have a better stash in the collection from which this song came from, but it’s still pretty hard to not like anything that Jack White puts his genius too.