Until now, the British-born Elson has been better known as a model, the face of ad campaigns for, among others, Armani, Prada, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium. While working as a model, she conducted an altogether different life behind the scenes as a singer and songwriter, honing what has proven to be her considerable skills.
In 2005 she married Jack White, whom she’d met on The White Stripes’ Blue Orchid video shoot, and she moved with him to Nashville, where they are now raising two children. This new life, balancing career and family, triggered a greater sense of urgency about her music and allowed her to ultimately cast aside the burden of self-doubt.
Elson worked behind closed doors, even keeping her songs from White. But one day he heard her singing and asked Elson to play what she’d been doing for him. Elson: “Jack doesn’t waste time. When he hears a song he really likes, he wants to go in and record it that day. He’s like that with anybody and it was the same with me. We went in, recorded it and it turned out to be the most liberating and fulfilling experience.”
Her debut album, The Ghost Who Walks, features Jackson Smith on guitar, Elson’s Citizens Band co-hort Rachelle Garniez on accordion and vocals, The Dead Weather’s Jack Lawrence on bass, My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel on pedal steel and producer Jack White on drums.
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