Jack Lawrence

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Jack Lawrence is a rock/country musician from Northern Kentucky. He plays banjo and autoharp in Blanche, and he plays bass guitar in The Greenhornes and The Raconteurs. Lawrence is usually called "Little Jack", "Lil' Jack", or "LJ" which was started when he was a kid to avoid confusion from his father who was also named jack.

Though he mainly plays bass, banjo, and autoharp, Lawrence can also play guitar, mandolin, drums, piano, accordion, and clarinet.

Jack Lawrence appeared on Loretta Lynn's Grammy Award-winning country album Van Lear Rose in a band called "The Do-Whaters", along with Greenhornes drummer Patrick Keeler and Blanche pedal steel player Dave Feeny. The band was put together by Jack White, who also helped write and produce much of the album. Blanche frontman Dan Miller also made an appearance on the album.

Jack later once again joined Keeler as the rhythm section of the Jack White/Brendan Benson project called "The Raconteurs". The band released one album, titled Broken Boy Soldiers, and they are currently touring. The band also acted as a "house band" for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, on which they performed with many musicians, including Lou Reed and Billy Gibbons, and they also sung "Video Killed The Radio Star" on the show.

Lawrence is currently working with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on her upcoming solo album.