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Jack White is already planning a new album - despite the fact that he didn't even mean to make Blunderbuss.
In an interview with The Sun, White tells them, "Another album is on the way already," as well as speaking about the fact that he didn't intend to go solo.
He said, "I always said to myself, 'I've got the rest of my life to make solo records'. It's the easy way out, the standard showbiz thing to do.
"I'd been producing 45s for other people the last few years till finally I had a few songs going of my own. Suddenly it seemed like, 'Oh, I guess this is turning into something.'"
White continued, "I had to figure out ways to stop it becoming the easy way out. I have an obsession with being hard on myself because I really need to feel proud of what I do.
"If I look back and see that I got the best engineers, that someone mixed the record for me, that it was just a bunch of people playing the parts, I couldn't live with throwing my name on top of it.
"But now if someone says, 'I really love that song, Jack', I can enjoy the compliment because I know the conditions under which it was made."
Jack White - never meant to make a solo record
White also spoke about the decision to have mostly women playing the instruments on the album, which was recorded at his studios in Nashville.
He added, "It only takes one girl in the room to change the entire scope of all the testosterone. A couple of years ago, I would have imagined playing most of the instruments myself but it was never the case working on these songs.
"I'd try to shake things up by saying, 'What if we only have female musicians today?'"
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