The Black Belles - What Can I Do?

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The Black Belles
What Can I Do? / Lies
Third Man Records TMR 024 (2011)

The Black Belles were one of the first signings to Jack White's Third Man empire. An American all girl "garage goth" band formed during 2009 in Nashville, they were fronted by Olivia Jean.  Prior to the band being formed Olivia had sent Jack White several demo's.  He obviously liked what he heard and invited her into his studio.  As she did not have a band he introduced her to Shelly Lynne and Ruby Rogers and from that meeting The Black Belles were born.  The fourth band member on this 45 is Erin Belle.  

The A side is one the songs Olivia submitted to Jack White and the flip is a cover of The Knickerbockers' track.  The A side was used by the scream queen Elvira as the theme song for her TV show Elvira's Movie Macabre.

The band was put on hiatus in 2014 when Olivia released her first solo album.









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