Broken Boy Soldiers was released on May 15, 2006, in the UK on Third Man Recordings / XL Recordings and May 16 in the U.S. on Third Man Recordings/ V2 Records . It entered the UK charts at No. 2 and the U.S. charts at No. 7.
The Raconteurs first performed live at the academy in Liverpool , UK, on March 20, 2006, launching a short British tour. Their first American date was the following month, on April 20, at New York City ‘s Irving Plaza . Nearly nonstop touring followed, bringing the band to audiences around…
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The Raconteurs’ full-length debut, Broken Boy Soldiers , was recorded at Brendan Benson’s in-home studio located in Detroit. The first single was ” Steady, As She Goes/Store Bought Bones ” and was released as a limited-edition 7-inch, 45 rpm vinyl record in Europe on January 30, 2006, and in North…
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The band is based in Nashville, Tennessee . According to the band’s official website, “The seed was sown in an attic in the middle of a hot summer when friends Jack White and Brendan Benson got together and wrote a song that truly inspired them. This song was ‘ Steady,…
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The band has performed a number of covers during live shows. For instance, the set list usually includes renditions of ” Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) ” (a song written by Sonny Bono and popularized by both Cher and Nancy Sinatra ) and “Headin’ for the Texas Border”…
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