'Saturday Night Live': Jack White returns with a rowdy rock performance
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Jack White returned to "Saturday Night Live" this weekend to rip another memorable rock show from the famed television stage.
Backed by a three-piece band, White delivered an energized rendition of 2022 single "Taking Me Back" before jumping (literally) into the heavy-riffing "Fear of the Dawn," which the former White Stripes member also debuted last year.
He returned later in the show to play piano-backed folk-rock tune "A Tip From You To Me." The three songs White performed on "SNL" come from a pair of albums — "Fear of the Dawn" and "Entering Heaven Alive" — released last April and July, respectively.
Saturday night marked the fifth "SNL" appearance for White, a benchmark celebrated by showrunners with induction into the so-called "five-timers club." Past musicians to play "SNL" five or more times include Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, Miley Cyrus and Rihanna, among others. Woody Harrelson — this week's host — also joined the club.
White — an adopted Nashville musician and co-founder of local label Third Man Records — first performed on "Saturday Night Live" as a member of the White Stripes in 2002; he last appeared on the show in 2020 for a pinch-hit appearance replacing Morgan Wallen after videos surfaced of the country singer partying in Alabama during the height of COVID-19 restrictions.
"SNL" serves another slice of Nashville music next week with country-pop hitmaker Kelsea Ballerini set for a debut performance.
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