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In these bands, he collaborates, but he still sounds like Jack White. White wrote the song “Don’t Hurt Yourself ” with Beyoncé, and sang it with her on her album “Lemonade.” He plays guitar in the Raconteurs, a band that started in Detroit in 2004, and drums in Dead Weather, which started in Nashville in 2009 he sings in both. 8 album over all, but it’s only one project among several. White’s most recent record, released in September, is “Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016,” which is a retrospective, mainly of White Stripes songs. White’s “Lazaretto,” a Third Man record from 2014, sold forty thousand copies in one week, more than any other record since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began following vinyl sales. Some are reissues (old blues songs, Detroit garage bands such as the Gories, and early Motown recordings), some are original records that White produced (Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Wanda Jackson, and Karen Elson, White’s second wife, from whom he is now divorced), and some are recordings of concerts held at the Nashville offices (Willie Nelson, Pearl Jam, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Detroit hip-hop artist Black Milk). Third Man’s catalogue includes roughly four hundred titles. His company, Third Man Records, which is based in Nashville and Detroit, produces vinyl records and sells them from stores at its offices. White used to be exclusively a rock star-he was half of the White Stripes-but his interests are diverse, and he has lately stopped touring and writing to dispose of them. “Anyway, it’s a place I can go and write songs and shake up my environment,” he continued. “If you could take care of it and pass it along, it’s good.” The car travelled through farm fields beneath a dome of blue sky.

“I’m a believer in nobody owns anything,” he said. He saw himself more as a custodian of the Nelson house than as its owner. He used to drive around the city looking for thrown-out furniture, and sometimes he found Nelson sofas and chairs and restored them. White is forty-one, and since his adolescence, in Detroit, when he was an upholsterer’s apprentice, he has been avidly interested in modern design. “A George Nelson house, there’s not too many of those,” White said in a car on the way there. The house was designed by George Nelson, a figure in American modernism, who mostly designed furniture. He wasn’t planning to live in it, except perhaps occasionally on retreats-he lives in Nashville. Last summer, Jack White bought a house in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that he had seen only in photographs. Photographs by Pari Dukovic for The New Yorker “I always have my own rules, and I can bend them if I want,” White says.