( EW.com ) -- Ladies , what have you done to Jack White ? On the former White Stripes frontman 's first solo album ( which is also his first full-length since his 2011 divorce from model and Third Man labelmate Karen Elson ) , he thinks you 're all out to get him , you liberated women who got `` freedom in the 21st century , '' who feel `` no responsibility , no guilt or morals , '' who want to cut off his arms and store them in the icebox or drill holes in his lifeboat with your spike heels . He tapped an all-female band to back him on `` Saturday Night Live '' recently , but here he 's still dreaming of the old days , when men were men , and girls would `` hold their hands behind them . '' If White 's afraid of modern women , it 's because he 's always fetishized the past ; he 's a man so bugged out by technology , he once built a guitar from three nails , some wood , and a Coke bottle . Musically , that nostalgia for simpler times works here . Now a Nashville resident , he 's recruited pedal-steel players , harpists , and violinists for a set so vintage in style -- with nods to '70s country ( `` Blunderbuss '' ) , '60s garage ( `` Sixteen Saltines '' ) , classic rock ( `` Freedom at 21 '' ) , and the blues ( `` I 'm Shakin '' ' ) -- that it 's sequenced to play on vinyl . There 's a certain Opryland jam-session charm to it all , but `` Blunderbuss '' lacks the electric jolt that made previous outfits the White Stripes and the Dead Weather so exciting . Maybe because it 's also missing the awesome battle-of-the-sexes tension between White and his `` sisters '' in those groups . He 's right that a modern woman should know her place -- and sometimes , that place is right in front of the band . B . See the full article at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
`` `` Blunderbuss '' '' is the White Stripes Third solo album . Musically , that nostalgia for simpler times works here . There 's a certain Nashville jam-session charm to it all , but Blunderbuss lacks the electric jolt .