The Raconteurs reunite in Nashville after seven years

The Raconteurs are playing together again after seven years apart.

The band joined Jack White on stage on Saturday for the encore of his solo concert at The Truth venue in Nashville, playing a five-song set, as reported by Rolling Stone. The crowd got five songs. It was their first performance together since December 2019.

The line-up was White with Brenden Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler. White and Benson share vocals and guitar in the band, while Lawrence plays bass and Keeler plays drums. All four were on stage for the full encore.

The set leaned on the band's first record. It included “Steady as She Goes” and three more tracks from their 2006 debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers. A debut album is a band's first full-length release.

The Nashville show ended a long gap between appearances. The Raconteurs last released Help Us Stranger in 2019, which arrived 11 years after their second album, Consolers of the Lonely, in 2008. The band had previously made a brief on-stage appearance together during the encore of one of White's Nashville shows in 2015.

The timing points to more from the group's early catalogue. White's Third Man Records will make its Vault series focus next on a 20th anniversary edition of Broken Boy Soldiers, Rolling Stone reported. The Vault is a subscription service that sends members exclusive vinyl pressings and related releases.

For fans, this means a live reunion and a reissue arriving in the same window. The band has worked at its own pace, with long breaks between records. Saturday's encore brought that history back into the room in under half an hour.