The Dead Weather BiographyAnother project
founded by Jack White, Dead Weather began after the Raconteurs toured the U.S.
with the Kills in summer 2008. Toward the end of the tour, bronchitis made it
difficult for White to sing as much as usual, so Kills singer Alison Mosshart
was drafted to sing several of his songs. Mosshart's on-stage chemistry with the
Raconteurs led to White, Mosshart, bassist "Little Jack" Lawrence, and
White's houseguest, Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita, recording a
cover of Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" The newly formed band
began working on a full album at White's Third Man Studios in Nashville TN, with
White on drums for the first time since his stint in Goober & the
Peas.