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Details Release Date: Mar 16, 2010; Lead Performance: The White Stripes; Genre: Rock

PRICKLY THORN, BUT SWEETLY WORN The White Stripes | Under the Great White Northern Lights, The White Stripes
PRICKLY THORN, BUT SWEETLY WORN The White Stripes

This concert CD/DVD does a great job 
of highlighting both sides of The White Stripes' carefully controlled public persona. Interviews in which Jack White plays the misunderstood artist are intercut with go-for-broke performances, and a wrenching final image humanizes the pair's relationship. If Under the Great White Northern Lights is their last hurrah, it's one hell of a goodbye. A

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Originally posted Mar 10, 2010 Published in issue #1094 Mar 19, 2010 Order article reprints

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