Future of The Raconteurs ambiguous

In an interview in February 2010, Brendan Benson stated that the future of The Raconteurs was ambiguous, stating “I think we’re all just really focused on other things.” He went on to add that “it will come around and we’ll get together again and hang out and maybe make a record or maybe not.” On April 17, 2010, Benson and Keeler performed Raconteurs songs as The Racontwoers at Jack White’s Third Man Records venue to coincide with a repressing of Broken Boy Soldiers on copper-colored vinyl. The pair was accompanied by Mark Watrous and Andrew Higley. The band played at the MI Fest on September 17, 2011, as well as September 15 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. On November 12, 2011, the band played the inaugural Orlando Calling festival in Orlando, Fl. The Raconteurs announced an additional American show to play at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia on November 13, 2011. In April 2012, Third Man Records released two songs that were supposed to appear on Consolers of the Lonely: “Open Your Eyes” and “You Make a Fool Out of Me”. The songs were re-recorded for Brendan Benson’s next solo album ‘My Old, Familiar Friend’. In February 2013, Jack White announced that the band was back in the studio recording new music. In March 2014, in an interview in The Guardian newspaper, Brendan Benson announced that a new album was “kind of off the table”, suggesting that a new album was not currently in the works, and that the band’s hiatus was more like a split.