Open Up (That's Enough)

Album: Dodge And Burn (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • Dead Weather frontwoman Alison Mosshart wrote this song with the band's drummer/producer, Jack White. Mosshart wrote the lyric, which in her typical style, is filled with rich imagery with lots of open space for interpretation. With The Dead Weather, she usually wrote on the fly in the studio, coming up with wordplay like, "Bubblegum in your hair isn't fair but it smells good."
  • "Open Up (That's Enough)" was the first new song from Dead Weather since their second album, Sea of Cowards, in 2010. The band was always a side project, so the members all had other commitments that kept them out of the studio until 2013, when they recorded this song and a few other tracks. It was first released as a limited-edition 7-inch vinyl single through Jack White's label Third Man Records' Vault subscription service in October 2013, then made available as a digital download on January 14, 2014.

    In 2015, the group did more recording and released their third album, Dodge And Burn, which includes "Open Up" on the tracklist. They didn't tour to support it; Mosshart stayed busy with her band The Kills and White was working as a solo artist around this time.
  • Jack White is the drummer in the group, but he also added guitar on this track.

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