When I chatted with the four members of the Raconteurs two years ago, doing an interview for a cover story I was writing, I was immediately struck by how they seemed to have little to say about the album that was then rumored to be Detroit’s answer to Nirvana’s Nevermind, the moment when Jack White finally turned loose in the studio and proved what he could do with a conventional band. But, knowing that his role as the White Stripes dynamic lead vocalist and guitarist gave him a stature which towered above those of his bandmates, White wasn’t going to say anything that made it seem like every moment of their debut wasn’t worked out and signed off on by each and every person in the band. And, so, he said little beyond stating the obvious; the band of longtime ...