Dead Weather - Horehound

My apologies to Florence but i think i may have been too hasty naming 'Dog day' the "best 1st song from a debut album in 2009". Because if that award was given tomorrow then the opener off this album '60 Feet Tall' would win hands down. Not that you could really call this a debut in the full sense of the word. The Dead Weather are made up of none other than Jack White ( from a little band called the white stripes )Dean Ferita ( from another small band you may of heard of; Queens of the stone age ) Jack Lawrence ( from White's other side project 'The racontuers/sabotuers' ) and led by The Kills lead singer Alison Mosshart. Hardly a lack of experience there. But technically this is the first release from this band so i guess you have to call it a debut. There's always some trepidation with a collaboration like this, particularly as this is Jack White's second side project, there is a chance that the meeting of minds and ideas wont work to produce anything coherent or different from the norm, The opener i referred to is a bluesy rocker that puts such fears to rest. The rest of the album doesn't quite live up to that first track but there are other good moments that makes it worth the while.