Big River - Single

You know he'd love this.

not only do these girls have a great chemestry singing with each other, but in big river, jack white proves once again that everything he touches turns to gold. big river had some of jacks best guitar work in my opinion. its the kind of thing you usualy only hear from a live proformance, of death letter (another brilliantly creative cover) or ball and a biscuit. jack white can take any good song and make it a masterpiece by simply touching it. wabash cannonball was good as well, but it crumbles in comparison to the brilliant instrumental and vocal work in big river. wabash cannonball (instrumentaly) was just another cover of a popular bluegrass song, but vocaly the girls have very distinctive unique voices that hold a sexy kind of ring to them that you dont usauly hear in other bluegrass songs, but it still didnt have any of the depth and creativity that jack whites guitar playing can bring into any song. all in all, they are two fantastic covers and deffinetly worth the $2. what i dont understand, is why jack doesnt play on more of the side project singles he prduces. i suppose that is a selfish statement to make, but for gods sake. jack white is the most unique and inteligent musician of this time, and the fact that fly farm blues was his only real solo project, left me despretly wanting more. its like eating half of a perfect juicy peach, and then having the other half held just above your reach. you know youd enjoy the peach more than anything if you could just reach it, but the fact that you cant just makes you frustrated.

Just bought this song in my patronage to jack white and it didn't disappoint I agree with that guy down there they should do a whole album together

This single mildly blew my mind. I was introduced to The Secret Sisters with their single "Tennessee Me," a fairly quiet, pretty folk song, and I loved it. I bought this single thinking that their renditions of a Johnny Cash and traditional folk song would be in the same vein. I didn't at all get what I was expecting. And I love it. Jack White (on lead guitar) and the Third Man Records house band took the Johnny Cash song "Big River" and gave it a heaping amount of rawness and grunge. If you didn't know it was beforehand, you likely wouldn't be able to tell that it was at one point a Cash song. "Wabash Cannonball" is a song that sort of meets in the middle of the two songs. Jack traded in his electric guitar for a mandolin, and the band got a brass section backing it. It's more immediately noticeable as a traditional song. Still, other versions I found of this song - by Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins, for example - didn't sound much like this version: it has a much more frantic sound to it. Much like the train in the song, that "dashes thro' the woodland, and speeds along the shore," the music sounds like it's trying to outrun the train to the end of the song. All in all: a really great single. [Note: Also sounds great on vinyl, so if you have a turntable, check it out.]

Their debut album is incredible. What makes them though is their powerful voices and excellent harmonization, both of which are lost in the heavy electric music of Big River and the fast pace of Wabash Cannonball. Its a little disappointing to see them drifting so far from the qualities that make them great.

Heard Big River on a college radio station that plays a variety of new music. This fits right in. Catchy sound that gets better the more you hear it.

they need to do a whole album with jack. thats a kick azz version of big river!excellent voices! yes they do sound good with banjos and fiddles behind them but with a well played electric they frickin rock!

This isn't a bad, but I personally like Wabash cannonball and it sounds like country, but there is no way that their version of Big rive can be considered country, even by the new style. I'm not a fan of Big river, but then I'm not a huge fan of rock, I like some, but it's a decent song for the genre, just not my style. They definatly in my opion have the voices that can do the old style country that my dad listins to.

i think that one is way too fast paced for them to sing.

Well I guess maybe Big River could possibly be considered rock, but this is actually country.