Entering Heaven Alive (album)
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''Entering Heaven Alive'' is the fifth studio album by the American
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musician
Jack White John Anthony White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician who achieved international fame as the guitarist and lead singer of the rock duo the White Stripes. As the White Stripes disbanded, he sought success with his solo career, subse ...
, released on July 22, 2022, through
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.


Promotion and release

In October 2021, White released "Taking Me Back", his first solo single since 2018. An acoustic version, "Taking Me Back (Gently)", was released as the B-side. In November 2021, White revealed that he would release two solo albums in 2022: '' Fear of the Dawn'', which featured White's traditional rock sound, and ''Entering Heaven Alive'', a
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album. In December 2021, White announced the Supply Chain Issues Tour kicking off on April 8, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan. The tour covers North America and Europe. On January 14, 2022, White released lead single "Love Is Selfish" and an accompanying music video. On February 11, 2022, White released the "Love Is Selfish" single with the ''Fear of the Dawn'' title track as its
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. On March 3, 2022, White released the song " Hi-De-Ho" (which features rapper
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, formerly of hip hop group
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) as the second standalone single from ''Fear of the Dawn''; the single included the B-side "Queen of the Bees". Finally on June 8, 2022, White released the song "If I Die Tomorrow" with an accompanying video. ''Entering Heaven Alive'' was released by
Third Man Records Third Man Records is an eclectic, vinyl-focused independent record label founded and owned by Jack White, Ben Blackwell, and Ben Swank. The company operates out of three locations—Nashville, Detroit, and Soho in London—with multiple entitie ...
on July 22, 2022.


Recording

The album was recorded throughout 2021 at Third Man Studio in
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. Parts of "All Along the Way" were recorded at the George Nelson Kirkpatrick House in
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.


Track listing


Personnel

Primary artist *
Jack White John Anthony White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician who achieved international fame as the guitarist and lead singer of the rock duo the White Stripes. As the White Stripes disbanded, he sought success with his solo career, subse ...
– vocals (all tracks), acoustic guitar (1–4, 8–11), percussion (1, 2, 6, 7), drums (2, 7, 8, 10), electric guitar (tracks 2, 5, 8), bass guitar (tracks 2, 4, 7, 8), ukulele bass (track 2),
Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert, first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, sound was created ...
(track 2), vibraphone (track 3),
Wurlitzer piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from 1954 to 1983. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is conceptually similar to ...
(track 3), additional percussion (tracks 3, 5),
Chamberlin The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by the American inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. There are several ...
drum machine (track 5), Mellotron M4000D (track 6),
Hammond Solovox The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models were produced, which originally used tonewheels to generate sound via additive synthesis, where component wavefo ...
(track 6), piano (track 7), analog Mellotron (track 8), Septavox synthesizer (track 8) Session musicians * Ben Swank – drums (tracks 1, 9) * Dominic Davis – bass guitar (tracks 1, 5, 9), upright bass (tracks 6, 11) *
Mark Watrous Mark Watrous is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and graphic/video artist from Richland, Washington. He is best known as a former member of the band Gosling (also known as Loudermilk). Watrous is currently a member of Earl Burrows and ...
– piano (track 1), additional keys (track 3), Wurlitzer piano (track 9) * Olivia Jean – Tic-Tac bass guitar (track 2), electric guitar (track 2), live percussion (track 3), shakers (track 11) *
Patrick Keeler James Patrick Keeler is an American rock music drummer from Cincinnati, who is best known for playing in The Greenhornes, The Raconteurs, and The Afghan Whigs. He plays with both traditional and matched grips. Recording career Keeler has play ...
– drums (3, 6, 11) *
Fats Kaplin Fats Kaplin is an American musician, born in New York City. He is best known as a fiddler. He also plays guitar, button accordion, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, an Arab oud, and a Turkish cümbüş, among others. He has worked with artists such ...
– violin (tracks 3, 11), viola (track 3), strings (track 3) *
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– Wurlitzer piano solo (track 3) * Cory Younts – live piano (track 3), piano (track 11) * Quincy McCrary – piano (tracks 3, 5, 9, 10) *
Pokey LaFarge Pokey LaFarge (born Andrew Heissler, June 26, 1983) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Early life LaFarge was born Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Illinois. The nickname "Pokey" was coined by his mother, who would scold him to ...
– acoustic guitar (tracks 3, 11) * Daru Jones – drums (track 5) * Dan Mancini – acoustic guitar (track 6) *
Jack Lawrence Jack Lawrence may refer to: * Jack Lawrence (songwriter) (1912–2009), American songwriter * Jack Lawrence (artist) (born 1975), British comic book artist and animator * Jack Lawrence (bluegrass) (born 1953), American bluegrass guitarist * Jack Law ...
– bass guitar (track 10) Technical personnel * Jack White – production (all tracks), engineering (tracks 2, 5), mixing (all tracks) * Joshua V. Smith – engineering (tracks 1–3, 5–7, 9–11), mixing (tracks 1–3, 5–7, 9–11) * Bill Skibbe – engineering (tracks 1–5, 7–10), mixing (tracks 1–5, 8–11), mastering (all tracks) Packaging * The Third Man – packaging design * Rob Jones at Animal Rummy – packaging design * Sara Deck – photo restoration and touch-up * Nikolai Matorin – front cover photograph (''Rhythm of Labor'', 1960) * Ed Westcott – back cover and inner sleeve photographs (''Civil Defense air raid drill, Highland View School'', 1953)


Charts


References

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