Jean’s journey with White began in 2009 when she left a demo CD at a concert by The Dead Weather.
In an interview, she recounted, “Jack got a hold of one of them. And about a week later after that show, I got a call asking if I wanted to fly down to Nashville.”
Jean explained further, “It felt like someone was cranking me, so I had to make a few phone calls to make sure no one was joking. I didn’t believe it at first.”
Subsequently, she decided to move to Nashville at the age of 19 to focus on her music career.
Discussing her relocation, she confessed it was “very intimidating at first,” but added, “as time went on, I realized that they’re there solely to make music. And they just love anyone who’s got a unique perspective on music. They were just very encouraging to me.”
Jean started working on projects at The Third Man and became a member of the all-female gothic rock band, the Black Belles. After the band disbanded in 2012, Jean embarked on a solo journey, releasing her debut solo album in 2014.
She told The Huffington Post, “Because the road can do some crazy things to a girl band. That was the first band a lot of us actually full-on toured with. So we were just getting used to things. So new to everything that we were all kind of tense and didn’t know what was going on. … So we were very vulnerable and, you know, nervous. So we would take our nerves out on each other.”
To date, Jean has released three albums: Bathtub Love Killings, Night Owl, and Raving Ghost.
