Tom Jones Becomes Jack White’s Latest Collaborator

Tom Jones has become the latest artist with whom Jack White has worked in his recent string of unusual collaborations. The veteran Welsh crooner, whose hits include “It’s Not Unusual” and “Delilah,” worked with White on a new version of Jones’s 2002 track, “Jezebel,” and on a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Evil.”

The special one-off 7-inch single will be released as part of White’s Third Man label’s “Blue Series,” which has pressed similar one-off discs for such unlikely artists as Insane Clown Posse and Stephen Colbert. A release date for the Tom Jones disc has not been announced, but White told Mojo the sessions went extremely well.

“[Jones] impressed the [expletive] out of everybody,” White said. Meanwhile, White has also revealed that Third Man has reached an agreement with the blues label, Document Records, to reissue a number of that label’s albums on high-quality vinyl. The first release will be a compilation album featuring early 20th century blues artists such as Charlie Patton and Blind Willie McTell.

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Joe Satriani Becomes a Comic Book Hero

Joe Satriani is going to debut as a comic book hero. He will be part of the second volume of the comic book Eternal Descent, appearing as a “cryptic entity” with supreme powers.

The storyline involves music. Upon making the ultimate sacrifice, the character Sirian finds himself caught lost in time and space as strange beautiful music (Strange Beautiful Music is a Satriani album title) resonates throughout the cosmos, heralding the arrival of Joe Satriani. He saves the day, of course. Eternal Descent is a “virtual band” in the comic book, and Static X and God Forbid have previously appeared.

“I reached out to Joe directly with a taster of previous Eternal Descent collaborations and some ideas for incorporating his musical heritage into the world of comics,” says writer Llexi Leon. “I was blown away when he responded a few days later, all the paperwork signed and his own ideas noted down along with the answers to some questions I had raised.”

There will be four different covers of the comic, each re-imagining of a Satriani album with an Eternal Descent twist. The albums featured are Not of This Earth, Crystal Planet, The Extremist and Time Machine.

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Life Story of AC/DC’s Bon Scott Becomes a Play

The short life of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott has been turned into a play. Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be – The Story of Bon Scott will make its stage premiere in July in Australia. The play will open July 12 at the Anthenaeum Theatre in Melbourne, according to NME.com.

Scott was in many bands before he joined AC/DC in 1974. He sang the band’s early hits – including “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” “T.N.T.” and “Highway to Hell” – before dying at age 33 in 1980. After a night on the town in London, Scott choked on his own vomit.

Actor Nick Barker will play the singer, and has said that Scott is an Australian icon akin to Ned Kelly. Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be was written by Andrew Barker, who has previously worked on plays based on the lives on Johnny Cash and John Denver.

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