HOW'S IT GOING TO BE....

Remember the 90's? Remember Third Eye Blind? Remember "How's it going to be"? That guitar hook? So good right?!

When we were thinkin' up tunes from the 90's that we wanted to cover for our Undercover EP, we went through a million bajillion songs before we finally remembered this no-brainer. The original is so killer that we weren't quite sure what we were gonna do with it, but the evolution of the arrangement became that of a softer, understated, more vulnerable and organic take on this song about the wonder of what's left over in life after loving someone for so long. We really love it if we can say so ourselves...

It really is the perfect song, enjoy this brand new video right here... feel free to share it with a buddy or two.

ps- and yes that is the sound of a sweep of a broom on my hard wood floors. Thanks Neil Young for the inspiration.

AND THE GIVE-AWAY #3 WINNER IS...

 Yay! Sarahkingx you win!

Send us an email to thejackandwhite@gmail.com

Hope you dig your new Sol Angeles t-shirt, Vinyl Copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and a signed copy of "Undercover"! 

Woo to the Hoo!

LAST WEEKS WINNER & UNDERCOVER GIVEAWAY #3...

A super soft t-shirt from SOL ANGELES, a cool new brand we're  collaborating with this summer, more details to come (sol-angeles.com), a vinyl copy of our favorite record, Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" and a signed copy of “Undercover”!

and our favorite:

Also, Take a listen to our live cover of "Dreams", get a free download of it when you buy the "Undercover" EP from our website http://smarturl.it/undercoverCD
 Dreams - Live (Fleetwood Mac cover) by Jack and White 

THE SCOOP: To participate in this week's Giveaway, we would love for you to help us out by posting the cover of our new EP “Undercover” on your Instagram or Facebook. After posting the cover (see below) to your Instagram/Facebook, just leave a comment below letting us know where you posted the link (include your instragram name or name on facebook)! (and yes we actually check!:) A winner will be selected next Tuesday! (All participants names are submitted into a random app and the winner is randomly selected)


POST MESSAGES (or you can use your own, just include the link!)


Instagram:
Check out the new @thejackandwhite EP “Undercover” on iTunes! #undercover

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackandwhitemusic (like us, then tag us :) – to tag, like us, then type @jack and white and select us from the drop down menu!

Check out @Jack and White’s new EP “Undercover” on iTunes! http://smarturl.it/undercover

Let the games begin! One last giveaway next week too! Stay tuned...

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You all are so awesome to participate so we decided to randomly select three winners for last weeks giveaway, and those winner(s) from last weeks Giveaway are...

Grand Prize (J&W necklace/Worktapes CD/Signed Undercover CD):

Elizabeth Rosalyn/ @ElizabethThe

Runners Up: (Worktapes CD/Signed Undercover CD)

1. Makinsey/ @Makinsey

2. Katrina

UNDERCOVER GIVEAWAY #2

THIS WEEK WE ARE GIVING AWAY THIS HANDMADE J&W NECKLACE (I WANT!!)

AND A CD COMPILATION OF OUR ONE OF A KIND ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC WORKTAPES NEVER BEFORE RELEASED! 

JACK AND WHITE: THE WORKTAPES

And for the super fan, We’ll be giving away just ONE one-of-a-kind CD with 9 original worktape demos of the songs from Gemini & Winter PLUS demos of 2 unreleased songs that we originally wrote for Gemini! These worktapes have never been released and are unavailable anywhere else! The moment we finish writing a song, we record a very stripped down, bare bones version to get it down on "tape". A couple of them we only had half the song done, some of them have a couple flubs, some have a few different lyrics and some are more raw then others. We've even included two b-side tracks that have never been released. This is how it all begins boys and girls! Here’s the tracklisting:

1. Gemini (Worktape)

2. Double Trouble (Worktape)

3. Inside Outside (Worktape)                                    

4. Telephone Games (Worktape)

5. Smoke and Mirrors (Worktape)                           

6. Feathers (Worktape)

7. One More Time (B-side Worktape)    

8. Surrender (B-side Worktape)               

9. Night After Night (Worktape)

10. On The Bright Side of the Bad News (Worktape)

11. The Grown Up Song (XYZ) (Worktape)

THE SCOOP:

To participate in this week's Giveaway, we would love for you to help us out by posting this video of our cover of ELO's "Telephone Line" (featuring our friend Fitz of "Fitz and the Tantrums"). After posting this youtube link (see below) to your Twitter/Facebook/Blog/Pinterest/Lockerz etc., just leave a comment below letting us know where you posted the link! (and yes we actually check!:) A winner will be selected next Tuesday! (All participants names are submitted into a random app and the winner is randomly selected)

Telephone Line... the link:

http://youtu.be/6DihMwnF3jY

POST MESSAGES (or you can use your own, just include the link!)

Twitter:

Check out @theJACKANDWHITE 's video for their cover of ELO’s “Telephone Line”  feat. Fitz! http://youtu.be/6DihMwnF3jY

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackandwhitemusic (make sure like us and to tag us :)

Check out @Jack and White’s video for their cover of ELO’s “Telephone Line”  feat. Fitz! http://youtu.be/6DihMwnF3jY

Blog/Pinterest/Lockerz:

Post or Pin the video along with a link http://smarturl.it/undercover

Let the games begin!

UNDERCOVER GIVE-AWAY...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and girls, lads and lasses, dudes and dudettes, guys and dolls, hims and hers, he's and she's... 

Yes indeed, I had a baby, exactly two weeks ago already, and I don't even know how that's possible? Time is going so fast and I am making it a point to literally just stare at her with out blinking an eye, cause in the words of Aerosmith (or Diane Warren to be exact), I don't wanna miss a thing, and it is exhausting being this obsessed. Hence my reason for not yet posting here on the blog about the most massive, special, painful, emotional, incredible and all encompassing moment of my entire lifetime. However I am working on said post, and it will be up Monday. I can't wait to tell you all about her, if you follow me on instagram or twitter, you've already been inundated with about a hundred bajillion pictures of her undeniable cuteness, and I'm sorry, I promise I try to practice self-restraint, I try not to overdo it, but you guys, I can't stand it, she just slays me daily. 

Until then I wanted to let y'all know that the JACK AND WHITE UNDERCOVER EP was released last week and is in the words of Little Caesars (Pizza), HOT AND READY!!

Have ya heard it yet? If you haven't I would certainly love for you to head on over to itunes and take a listen, click here to listen to full versions of the songs and perhaps feel motivated by musics magical powers to download it and enjoy it as the soundtrack to your summer! We had a good ol' time making this record, as we carefully selected the perfect covers from each decade, which resulted in six slammin' renditions of finely crafted tuneage.

So for the next four weeks we are doing a couple of fun and awesome Give-aways to help spread the good word of Jack and White. 

This week we are giving away a super duper pair of our personal choice of shades, CASSETTE sunglasses, along with a signed copy of the new EP of course! 

Take a look at these, how cool would you look in these? Cool to Very cool.

So what must you do to be eligible to win? Do at least one of the following:

1.)  Post one of the followng messages/links to your twitter/facebook (or your own message, just include the link)

Twitter: 

Check out @theJACKANDWHITE 's new UNDERCOVER EP! http://smarturl.it/undercover

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jackandwhitemusic (make sure like us and to tag us :)

Check out @JACKANDWHITE 's new UNDERCOVER EP! http://smarturl.it/undercover

Blog/Pinterest/Lockerz:

Post or Pin the record cover along with a link http://smarturl.it/undercover

2.) Leave a comment below with your name, tell us what and where you posted! And for bonus points, let us know what your favorite track is off the EP :)

3.) Contest closes Monday night! WINNER announced Tuesday

4.) Ready.... GO!!!


PS- CD/Hardcopies are also available on our website JACKANDWHITE.COM for the old schoolers out there. As well, if you purchase the cd from our website you get a free download of our live performance of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams". Just sayin' :)

LISTEN BEFORE YOU LEAP...

If you want to take a listen to the EP before clicking on the "buy" button just watch the youtube videos below to get a taste of full length versions of the songs from the New Undercover EP!

1.) CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

2.) TELEPHONE LINE (Featuring Fitz of Fitz and the Tantrums)

3.) HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN

4.) HOW'S IT GOING TO BE

5.) CRY ME A RIVER

6.) TIGHTEN UP

DOWNLOAD HERE 

GET THE CD HERE 

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'...

Maybe you've seen it, maybe ya haven't, but our official video for "California Dreamin" (which was originally shot for The Song That Changed My Life), was premiered yesterday at You, Me and Charlie. Watch if ya'd like, yes there is a strategically placed guitar, being over 8 months pregnant and in front of the camera is not my favorite. Nonetheless, thanks to an amazing crew, their tricky camera skillz and magic editing powers, this vid turned out nicely! 

Speaking of "The Song that Changed My Life", if you missed the Jack and White episode the first time it aired last month, no worries, it will be re-airing next Monday, May 28th on BYUtv. Pretty cool lil' show to be a part of... loved it.  If ya don't get BYUtv on your TV set, we've got ya covered, you can stream it online as well right HERE.  Cool, so maybe watch it!?

The single is also available to download now exclusively on itunes! It is the first track from our Upcoming cover EP, appropriately titled "Undercover" which will be droppin' next Tuesday, May 29th! Pretty stoked about this one, I've always wanted to release a cover record... with literally a gajillion great tunes to choose from, it was challenging to narrow down the selection, so we chose a song from each decade, starting with the 60's until our modern day. Because of it's classic legendary status, you'll noticed we decided to stay true to the original arrangement of California Dreamin' and just give it a modern polish. However, with the rest of the tunes we made liberal use of our artistic license, gave 'em a lil' spin and took them to new places. We'll see how y'all respond, it's a challenging endeavor to take a hit song and honor it's original greatness, while making it fresh... making it your own. However it was a gritty and fun challenge that we really sunk our teeth into. Been working on it  day and night for the last 2-3 months solid, which really helped this last trimester of my pregnancy kinda fly by, thankfully. We sure hope you dig it.

Anywho, there is a lil' something for everyone. Here's whatchya can expect:

60's: California Dreamin' (Mama's and the Papa's)

70's: Telephone Line with guest vox by "Fitz" of my fave, Fitz & the Tantrums (Electric Light Orchestra)

80's: Here Come's the Rain Again (Eurythmics)

90's: How's it Going to Be? (third eye blind)

2000's: Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake)

2010's: Tighten Up (The Black Keys) 

and speaking of tightening up... here goes another contraction. gotta run...

Yay for music and babies... kinda my favorite :)

ps- one more thing, The Girls with Glasses finally got a new website! Woohoo! gonna go now.

FUNNY AND AWESOME...

A few random things that I find both funny and awesome:

1. DAVE RAY CPA:

Yesterday... the sun is still shining, and it's 6:30... seriously, how much do I love these longer days?! Anywho, I'm in the kitchen, making dinner (a rarity) actually it was Monday, therefore I was making breakfast for dinner (is that cheating? When will I ever learn how to actually make Dinner for dinner?) when suddenly, a loud and thunderous voice with awesome forced vibrato comes charging through the door, serenading me with this lil' gem of a... uhhh... tune, with these exact words: 

"BROOOOOKE, why do you love me so MMUUUUCCCHHH?

Is it because I am Handsome, Funny and SMARRRRT???

OR is it because of my all out Sex APPEEEAAAAALLLL?!?!?!

Dave, yes, I love you because of all these things, but you forgot one thing...  I mostly love you for your straight up serious SONGWRITING SKILLZ! Sometimes them CPA's are hilarious I tell ya, and have many wonderful hidden talents.

2. OOOOHHH...NIGHT AFTER NIGHT REMIX... YEAH! :

Okay, so you know (or maybe you didn't, don't want to be presumptuous) Jack and I have this song on our last Winter EP called Night after Night. Well this fellow connected with us and offered to remix our song into a Fancy Dancy Remix ready to be "up in the club" as they say (don't they say that?). And folks that is exactly what he did... I've never heard any of my songs remixed, so at first listen I kinda just laughed out loud, especially everytime I hear the part "YEAH"... oh man, I die. But then it really started to grow on me and before I knew it I had my glow sticks out and I was gettin' my dance on in the living room... totally by myself. Okay not really, but kind of, just minus the glow sticks, but myself... YEAH! Anywho, some people are really diggin' it and the young folks seem to think we're hippish and maybe a bit cool, however some others in a more mature age group of our demographic seem to think "it's kinda loud and has a lot of sounds in it... I think it was much better the way it was before" HaHa!

Anywho, it's fun and we appreciate our buddy, AKA the Electric Valentine for making this HOT Remix. Take a listen for yourself... could be good for the treadmill...

Oh and PS... lil' disclaimer, while we are very appreciative of this mix, it has been titled  the "kids on drugs remix" Please note, We don't really advocate "kids on drugs", unless of course mom gives them some tylenol for when they have a fever. 

3. A GIRL NAMED GAY:

Meet my friend Gabrielle Hansen, but really we all call her Gay... and I call her GayGay, along with this lil character, Mr. Dallen B, one of her four super hilarious and attractive children. Well GayGay (Gay I hope you don't mind that I call you that) has been bloggin' over the years here and there about the kids and her sports nut of a husband (and BYU bosom buddies with Dave Ray CPA), but in the last few months she has turned into a BLOGGIN' MACHINE! This gal has a gift for telling stories, for bravely and eloquently saying out loud all those thoughts we are all thinking, she tells it like it is, she is insightful and yet doesn't take herself too seriously... all in all, GayGay is a real kind of girl, the kind of gal that when you are reading her words you think "I just like her"... read it, you'll know what I mean. 

I love supporting my friends, I am especially happy to tell you about "A Girl Named Gay" not just because she is my friend, but because I am a big believer in creative expression! You Go Gay! By the way, she is doing pretty much the greatest give away for HER birthday on her blog right now. Have you ever heard of LULU LEMON?!?  I have a testimony of Lulu Lemon, Pretty much the greatest work out clothes of all time... I'm telling you, these pants make your behinder look so good you could skip the gym and just head straight to Target, and everyone in the check out line would be helpless to notice that perfectly round lil' keister, and they will wonder how you manage such a magnificent rear-end with that package of Oreos, bag of cheetos and gallon of rocky road that you've got kickin' in your cart, so naturally they assume that you must've just finished nearly killin' yourself in spin class to achieve that fine behind (yeah right)... welp forget the agony and pain, oh and sweat of spin class, all you need is the pants, they are truly magical... and expensive. And Gay is gonna get you the pants, with a $100 gift card! So quick, go read this post and then, all the others, cause she's just that good, that Gay Gay is.

WE ARE THE MUSIC MAKERS...

In the month of December, we made a record in my living room... 

 My kitchen table turned into a recording console...

Building scratch tracks... I look mad, but I'm not... 

 This is Zach Hall, he takes videos and pictures...

I played the piano... Brad our manager played "Free Fallin"

 Adam played the drums...

 Jack played bass... and guitar... me too a little, we sang a lot

 jack sat in that chair for a long time... we put tinsel on the light so we'd quit bonking our heads

We finished the EP in January. It is called "Winter"... we worked really hard on it. It's on iTunes...
Trever Hoene took the picture, I made a record cover,

Jack made a video with the footage Zach Hall took for our song "Night after Night"...

We love what we do, we hope you do too...

FLOATIN' LIKE A FEATHER...

Have I told you about Jack and White Wednesday?

Basically it's the day we've designated to release some sort of new original video... and the sound of the double double-u's we thought had a ring to it. Anywho, amongst those videos we've been releasing a collection of acoustic performances that we shot in my living room before I moved in any of my furniture and stuff... I love these versions equally to the full on band productions.

Today we released Feathers... which was the first song that we wrote and really prompted the creation of Jack and White... kinda fun, disregard my awkward dance movements... although, funny and true story, a couple of shows back in Denver, someone in the audience came up to me after the show and said "wow, your dancing has really improved since american idol!" I have to be honest... pretty much made my day, though I won't be trying out for "so you think you can dance" anytime soon:)

PS- If you find that you are enjoying this version of Feathers, you can download it for FREE on our website jackandwhite.com right this very second! In the words of Dave Ray CPA "Who doesn't love Free.99?"

THIS WEEK...

photo by trever hoehne

I will FINALLY be home for more then 2 consecutive days in a row! September into October has been beyond busy promoting Gemini with my band JACK AND WHITE, singing my voice silly here there and everywhere, and gratefully and yet exhaustingly so. However I am stationary for the next week (woohoo) which means I will finally get a chance to take all of these posts flying around in my noggin and get them down on this here blog. So lot's of updating in the month of October: thoughts on authenticity,  my (limited) advice to aspiring singers and artists (as promised), perhaps my very own first ever fashion post, I think there may even be a give-way and... I'm thinking about a hair how-to video... we'll see. I'm infamous for biting off more then I can chew, and I shouldn't over promise and under deliver, but I always say, that saying things out loud make you accountable, so now it's out there... ahhh... I'll do my best.

PS- the photo to the left is from a recent shoot for The Girls with Glasses show with super talented and handsome photographer Trever Hoehne, (he's also happens to be responsible for the Jack and White record cover photo). GWG are gearing up for a load of videos and a fresh little make-over over at our blog and website, excited to reveal it all to in the next few months... stayed tuned!

Oh and PSS- here is a sweet new music video for our song "Double Trouble" directed by none other then the fabulous and wonderful Summer Bellessa, one of my dearest bestest friends and fellow girl with glasses, as well as the editor for the prettiest magazine known as Eliza that you should definitely check out. Her style and pizazz is all over the place here and also makes her directing debut and does so very well in my opinion! Thanks Summ!

Une Deux Trois Hey...

and now, time for a sunday nap... happy sabbath! 

LIVING ROOM SESSIONS: GEMINI

So we wanted to make some acoustic recordings from the GEMINI EP, so we plugged in, and set up in my empty living room and got a'jammin. We decided to take some video footage while we were at it... You may have seen "telephone games" from Cjane's blog... 

Well now ya have "Gemini"... live from my living room, enjoy!



More to come, up next is 'smoke and mirrors', probably my second favorite tune on the record.

ps- if ya bought the EP (a real big thanks if ya did), I am curious of which song you're diggin' the most?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...

We are proud to present: 

AVAILABLE NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES

We couldn't be more excited to give this to the world today. A big time thanks to iTunes for rocking the release in such an incredible way. To our amazing friends who have helped us create this lil' labor of love, we couldn't have pulled this off with out you. Team work rules. 

DANNY COCKE

BRAD FUHRMAN

JUSTIN BARNES

BRANT BILES

TREVER HOEHNE

LIZ FRANCO

GLENN WEATHERSON

ADAM CULVEY

STEVEN TRACHTENBROIT

MATT JOHNSON

(I FEEL LIKE I AM FORGETTING PEOPLE, FORGIVE ME, THIS LIST WILL GROW FOR SURE)

To you the fans, well, you are pretty much the reason we do this. 

Thank you for sustaining us and our art. We appreciate you so very much.

PS: if you aren't ready to invest $4.95 in JACK AND WHITE quite yet, 

that's totally cool, we gotchya covered with a 

FREE DOWNLOAD OF DOUBLE TROUBLE

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"If you build it, they will come."

C.Jane and Telephone Games...

Human Connection is so very important... As in face to face, Eye contact, Mannerisms, tone of voice, facial expressions, laughter, energy and spirit. Sometimes this great miraculous technology we have literally at our fingertips, can get us in a real pickle, and has been know to create some misleading barriers between what's real and what's not. What we see on TV, on a blog, on a forum, in a text or in an email can truly distort the truth about people, or situations and leaves us all to assume things we don't really know for certain, fill in the blanks with faulty details and place unfair judgements. I'm sure pretty much all of us have experienced this breakdown in communication at one point or another. I've been super guilty.

When C.Jane and I met, I was nervous, but my first thought was "let's just hug it out", i'm a hugger. We did, I liked her right away. Her face was soft and pretty and kind. We sat and just talked, with natural ease, about many things, of course we discussed, said our sorrys and laughed about the lil' blog mix up last year that perhaps got blown a bit out of proportion, and then we moved quickly on to deeper and more meaningful conversation, relating upon spiritual thoughts and real life stuff... and moms, I loved that we could talk like that so effortlessly. Unfortunately we didn't get to visit much longer then a half hour, I had to go sing. But when we parted ways, I left feeling enlightened... it was one of those life lesson learned of the importance of real human connection and the great understanding it can provide, and healing. Something that you'll just never get with a "LOL" or a smiley face emoticon. Ain't nothin' like the real thing...

C.Jane is one heckuva lady. I have been a reader of her blog for quite some time, reading stories and adventures of Chup, the chief and Ever, and was always rather blown away by her ability to express with her words, so honestly, eloquently, interestingly, humorously and with a heap of humanity. Her writing is developed and hearty, amazing. I admire this great gift. As intriguing and inspiring and sassy as her persona is on a blog, there is a woman that exudes a feeling of warmth and sincerity, that is felt infinitely more when up close and personal. Glad I got to witness that first hand...

She's also a hardcore music lover, a lady after my own heart,  she has been a catalyst in creating a budding and thriving music scene in Provo, Utah with the Rooftop Concert Series with the highest quality artists and bands. Upcoming is a super sweet band IMAGINE DRAGONS, (I'm obsessed with their song "EMMA") if you are in the area, you should definitely get up on the roof.

Anywho, we made these little acoustic recording and videos for our "Gemini" EP in my living room before I had moved in my furniture and properly hung my curtains. They are home made videos of course, raw and real, Jack rocks the Toms and I'm barefoot of course. We play with these talented and funny musicians, Danny Cocke and Adam Culvey, and it is such a joy for me. Making music is pretty unbelievable. So we wanted to debut this little tune that has become a personal favorite, kind of a daggar in the heart kind of tune known as "telephone games". Right away C.Jane came to mind with her love and passion for music. She so kindly and quickly responded with a "YES"! Woohoo!

On behalf of Jack and White, we thank you very much Courtney. It is so good to be supported by friends.

You are more then welcome to go take a listen over at C.Janes... TELEPHONE GAMES