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Broken Boy Soldiers | 
| Artist: The Raconteurs
Label: Warner Bros.
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 907
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 512141
UPC: 093624984276
EAN: 0093624984276
ASIN: B001AP11KW
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Steady, As She Goes | | • | Hands | | • | Broken Boy Soldier | | • | Intimate Secretary | | • | Together | | • | Level | | • | Store Bought Bones | | • | Yellow Sun | | • | Call It a Day | | • | Blue Veins |
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Smothered by the indulgence of his rock star ranking, Jack White steps into the eccentricities of the supergroup, and at first glance, this seems to be a band where White's imposing presence could overshadow the rest. Not the case with these Raconteurs. Teaming with fellow Detroit songwriter Brendan Benson and Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, the rhythm section from Cincinnati band the Greenhornes, White exhales a bit, deferring enough to his mates to make Broken Boy Soldiers play like a team effort. Following the Benson blueprint, "Steady as She Goes," which opens as a slice of 1960's radio pop, the record steers away from pigeonholing the rest of the way. White's in a Middle Eastern mood for the title track as he pulls off a wicked Robert Plant howl, while Lawrence and Keeler excel on the chorus-strong "Intimate Secretary" and the optimistic acoustic rocker "Yellow Sun." Like so many all-star bands before them, The Raconteurs could be one and done. But don't place the blame on this fertile and genuine debut. --Scott Holter Leading up to The Raconteurs...
The Alternative to Love
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Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes | 
Sewed Soles
The Greenhornes | 
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One Mississippi/Wellfed Boy
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Album Description
The Raconteurs are a new band made up of old friends, consisting of Jack Lawrence (bass), Patrick Keeler (drums), Brendan Benson (guitars, vocals, keys) and Jack White(guitars, vocals, keys). The seed was sewn in an attic in the middle of a hot summer when friends Jack White and Brendan Benson got together and wrote a song that truly inspired them. This song was "Steady, As She Goes" and the inspiration led to the creation of a full band with the addition of Lawrence and Keeler. While each of these four individuals have had successful careers with their own bands, the culmination of all of their talents is what truly makes The Raconteurs a force to be reckoned with.
Album Description
2008 reissue of Broken Boy Soldiers. The Raconteurs debuted in 2005 with an album that entered the U.S. chart at #7 and U.K. chart at #2. Rolling Stone said, 'Expectations were sky-high, but The Raconteurs exceed them all.' The song 'Steady, As She Goes' hit #1 ' and 'Level' #7. The album was named Album Of The Year by Mojo magazine and the disc was Grammy nominated for Best Rock Album with 'Steady, As She Goes' for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.10 tracks.
Album Details
Raconteurs = Saboteurs - Jack White and Brendan Benson's New Band Changes Its Name for Australia. The Raconteurs, the New Band Fronted by Jack White from the White Stripes and Singer/Songwriter Brendan Benson, Will Now Be Known as the Saboteurs in Australia, to Avoid Any Confusion with an Australian Band Already Operating under the Name.
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 [n. rah-con-TUR]: One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit May 16, 2006
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
82 out of 120 found this review helpful
Wow! What a group! “The Raconteurs” is made up of Jack White of the White Stripes, with multi-talented Brendan Benson, and rockers Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler of the Greenhornes for company
First hit “Steady As She Goes” (White/Benson) is first rate material, offering some good advice on marriage – “Find yourself a girl and settle down. Live a simple life in a quiet town”. I also like “Hands” with its stirring chorus of “When you're with me there's a life and I can see my way, when you speak to me it's a song and I know what to say”. The title track is a rock masterpiece, with a little Middle Eastern riff and an Irish jig thrown in for good measure, and is followed by the humorous “Intimate Secretary”.
“Together” takes the pace down to ballad, so you can catch your breath before the short “Level” and “Store Bought Bones” pump you up again. “Yellow Sun” goes acoustic, while “Call It a Day” and “Blue Veins” close off this excellent album on an introspective note.
There’s just one obvious problem – its only ten songs long. Ten songs is all we get for this huge debut album – so play it often and make it last.
Amanda Richards, May 16, 2006
There are decent bands...then there's Jack White May 22, 2006
David Kenner (Fort Worth, Texas United States)
34 out of 47 found this review helpful
This album clocks in at just under 34 minutes but when the half hour is this good, it's hard to complain.
The versatility that Jack White continues to show year after year is almost mind boggling. From the early White Stripes albums to "Candy Cane Children" to Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" to the music from COLD MOUNTAIN to "Get Behind Me Satan" to The Raconteurs, you just never know what he's going to do next. You can count on two things though: it will not be a copy of what he's done before and it will be quality music.
I believe he's the best composer and best musician in rock music today (and will be tomorrow).
The Raconteurs debut album is 10 infectious tracks that have a timeless quality. Sometimes it sounds as if this album could have been made in 1973, or 1979, or 1982, or 1990, yet it sounds very contemporary too. Instead of fronting the band, Jack's style is incorporated into a group of incredibly talented performers. The last track "Blue Veins" is one of the best songs from any of White's projects.
When there's so much insignificant music being made these days, it's good to know you can put your trust in Jack.
Steppin outta line June 4, 2006
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
21 out of 37 found this review helpful
Welcome to the 21st-century's first notable supergroup: The Raconteurs. With members of the White Stripes and the Greenhornes, debut album "Broken Boy Soldiers" has a LOT to live up to.
And it's definitely a satisfying result -- rawer than the Greenhornes, more expansive than the White Stripes. The Raconteurs turn out solid, rough-edged rock'n'roll tunes and 60s-style guitar pop without leaning too much on any style. No grandstanding, not even a frontman. Just solid, unpretentious rock'n'roll.
It starts off with the slow burn and catchy rhythms of "Steady as She Goes," which orders you to "Find yourself a girl and settle down/Live a simple life in a quiet town." But over the blasts of guitar and grinding spurts, Brendan Benson wails, "But no matter what you do/You'll always feel as though you tripped and fell... Steady as she goes, are you steady now?"
The Raconteurs continue the solid guitar rock for a little while, but it's interrupted by the title track. It starts off as a galloping Middle-Eastern track, and soon Jack White is blasting through the song Robert-Plant-style. It's White's turn to shine, but he soon turns the spotlight back on his bandmates.
After that, the band starts to experiment even more: wailing bluesy rock with a lo-fi edge, ponderous bass-rock that seems to be experimenting with itself, claustrophobic whirlwinds, and even a bit of Beatlesy pop with the enchanting "Together." The album winds down gradually to a pensive alt-rock note, and you can almost picture the tired musicians wrapping up the day's work.
"Broken Toy Soldiers" is exactly what it appears to be -- solid, enjoyable rock music, without any gimmicks beyond the musicians themselves. Brendan Benson and his bandmates reaffirm their underrated musical skills, and Jack White proves he's more than a talented guy in a red, white and black outfit.
Just don't listen to "Broken Boy Soldiers" so you can pick out the musical influences. They blend almost seamlessly -- almost because some of the songs lean too heavily one way or another, which makes them stick out of the whole. Not bad, but a little distracting. However, the Raconteurs at their best have a solid, fast-paced, slightly unpolished sound.
The music is absolutely exploding with spare instrumentation: flexible electric guitar that can dance, strum or explode, and some equally intense blasts of murky bass. There's a bit of keyboard adding a surreal edge to songs like "Store Bought Bones." And finally, Patrick Keeler's drums run under every song, keeping them well grounded.
The Raconteurs make a solid debut with "Broken Boy Soldiers," with its unpolished, nimble rock sound. This is what a supergroup should sound like.
The Raconteurs,the Saboteurs it's all good May 16, 2006
R. Zappelli (Rockford,IL USA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
The Raconteurs may not be as eclectic as the White Stripes but with Jack White's fingerprints all over this supergroup consisting of White, singer/songwriter Brendon Benson and two Greenhornes (Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence)comparisons are sure to abound. Benson and White have gone on the record to say that this is Detroit's answer to Nirvana's "Nevermind"; it's at least a couple of solid songs short of that lofty standard but for a debut album it certainly holds it's own.
Allready the group has had a name change forced upon them as there is a jazz band with the same name in Australia so they will be known as the Saboteur's downunder. That aside it has been smooth sailing for the foursome all whom have been doing exactly as they please in their musical ventures and yet managed to mesh together to the extent that you can sense everyone had their say in the way Broken Boy Soldiers sounds.
While all members of The Raconteurs may have been born equal, turns out that some are more equal than others. Because it's the songs that sound most like Jack that really soar: the piano/bass/cymbal heavy Blue Veins, or the astounding Broken Boy Soldiers far outshine the Benson penned jangle of Together or Call it a day.
Steady as she goes will garner a lot of airplay and is reminicent of sixties pop, it's also as catchy as the Bird-flu. This was the song that got the project of the ground when White and Benson got togther to write in Bensons attic.
If you heard Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" album then you will be familar with the Greenhorne's who Jack hired to work on that album, they also had/have the gig opening for the White Stripes.
Patrick Keeler plays like he want's to murder his snare and is a stark contrast to the drum-how-you-feel loseness of Meg that Jack is accustomed too.
In fact Jack sound's (and in publicity snippets he looks) as if he's having a ball and is a lot looser himself than the Jack White of late who broods onstage with the Stripe's. Maybe it's that he has freed himself from the self imposed white and red constraints of the Stripes, maybe it's because he like's hanging out with the boys for a change. He certainly seems to be invigorated and this can only bode well for future albums wether they be Stripes, Raconteurs or Saboteurs.
 everything is great nowadays May 18, 2006
J. Batten (Hollywood USA)
15 out of 30 found this review helpful
Why does everything have to be so great nowadays? Every movie is "a heart stopping thrill ride", every book a pulitzer, every new band is the next Led Zeppelin. Fifteen minutes of fame has been weened down to fifteen seconds in my mind. Jack & company sound tired and laboured on this album. Is it supposed to be a pop album? Sounds more like prog rock with hints of pop. I read somewhere that they were trying to make their version of "Nevermind". Well, nevermind. If this band didn't have Jack White in it nobody would give two turds. I'm puttin' these songs in the recycled bin of my computer, right next to Wolfmother.
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