After his work with The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and a host of other projects as a guest artist, White is striking out on his own with the new album, which he produced and recorded in Nashville. White also released the first cut, a track called Love Interruption, via his new website.

Audio: Jack White - Love Interruption

Blunderbuss is "an album I couldn't have released until now," he stated in a press release. "I've put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colours on my own canvas."

White founded Third Man Records, which specialises in vinyl, in Detroit in 2001, then established its first office in Nashville in 2009. To commemorate the opening, White debuted his band, The Dead Weather. All six studio albums by The White Stripes carry the logo, as do both albums by The Raconteurs.