300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues

300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues

The White Stripes

“300 M.P.H Torrential Outpour Blues” is the third track on The White Stripes 6th and final album, Icky Thump.

Jack White explained that when writing this song, his goal was to use as many diverse “blues” styles he could. He was quoted in saying:

That started on an acoustic guitar – it became an idea to use as many different styles of the blues as I could in one song. It goes from the really screeching, distorted, heavy blues song, to a wimply Wurlitzer kind of loungey blues sound, to a white-boy takes on the blues, to real earthy, country blues.