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- At first listen, Brendan Benson doesn't sound anything like the White Stripes' Jack White. Forget first listen. Even after second and third listens, their styles seem polar opposites. So why is the minimalist blues-soaked White collaborating with a Wall of Sound power popper like Benson?
- Start with geographic loyalty. Both of them live in Detroit.
- Benson grew up in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was only 11 when he moved from Louisiana, but the nostalgia remains. His 2002 sophomore CD, ``Lapalco,'' is named after one of the main thoroughfares of the area, and its lead single, ``Metarie'' (sic) is named after a New Orleans suburb now mostly underwater following Hurricane Katrina.
- ``My hometown is underwater,'' Benson said. ``My history is being wiped out. It's sad to think of all the people who've never been to New Orleans and never got to see it before all this. I can't imagine what it's going to look like.''
- Though it's impossible to know what Benson would be going through had he stayed in New Orleans, this much is clear: He wouldn't be making music with Jack White if he hadn't moved to Detroit.
- Read the full story at: Boston Herald
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