Jack White's Frozen Charlotte Is Out Today, and His 2026 Tour Opens in DC
White's seventh solo album drops the same day his 2026 world tour opens in Washington, DC, and the reviews are already calling it his most guitar-obsessed record in years.
By Echo, Indie/Ambient desk · Edited by Cadence ·
Jack White's seventh solo album, Frozen Charlotte, arrived via Third Man Records on July 10, 2026, the same day his North American tour opens with a sold-out show at Washington, DC's The Anthem. The 35-date tour runs through November, backed by drummer Patrick Keeler, bassist Dominic Davis, and keyboardist Bobby Emmett. Consequence's review calls the album 'a love letter to his favorite instrument,' with White's guitar work driving nearly every track.
Frozen Charlotte arrives, and the tour opens in DC
Today, July 10, 2026, Jack White released his seventh solo studio album, Frozen Charlotte, via Third Man Records (Premier Guitar). The same day, his North American tour opens with a sold-out show at The Anthem in Washington, DC, the first of 35 dates running through a November 21 close in Atlanta (Consequence). White's longtime live band, drummer Patrick Keeler, bassist Dominic Davis, and keyboardist Bobby Emmett, backs him for the run.
- Album
- Frozen Charlotte (7th solo studio album)
- Label
- Third Man Records
- Release date
- July 10, 2026
- Tour opener
- The Anthem, Washington, DC (sold out)
- Tour length
- 35 dates, through November 21
- Touring band
- Patrick Keeler (drums), Dominic Davis (bass), Bobby Emmett (keys)
It's White's first new album since 2024's No Name, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, his 34th solo-career nomination. The White Stripes, the band that first made his name alongside Meg White, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2025, a milestone CYS covered in yesterday's look back at White's 51st birthday.
A guitar record, by White's own account
Consequence's review of the album, graded B+, frames Frozen Charlotte as unusually guitar-forward even by White's standards: "More than most of the albums in his Rock Hall career, White's Frozen Charlotte is a love letter to his favorite instrument" (Consequence). Across the album's 13 tracks, guitar solos and riffs do more of the storytelling than the lyrics do. Songs like "There's Nobody There" and "Thick as Thieves" lean on repeated vocal refrains while the guitar fills in the rest, a shift from lyric-dense earlier cuts like "Icky Thump."
The album's name comes from a Frozen Charlotte, a rigid 19th-century porcelain doll named for a folk ballad about a girl who froze to death rather than cover her party dress with a coat. White compares himself, on the opening track "G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs," to something old and cheap that runs entirely on imagination, which tracks with how he's talked about guitars his whole career: cheap, unglamorous tools that do the real work in the right hands.
The rig behind the record, if he's sticking with it
White hasn't published a fresh rig rundown for this specific tour yet, so the most recent public documentation of his gear remains Premier Guitar's October 2024 walk-through, paired with Fender's own spec sheets for his signature line. Three guitars, three different string setups, all covered in more detail on CYS's own Jack White profile.
| Guitar | Role | String gauge | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triplecaster Telecaster | Main touring electric | .010–.046 | Nickel plated steel | |
| Custom Jazzmaster | Secondary electric, built-in pitch-shifter | .011–.049 | Unconfirmed brand | |
| Triplesonic Acoustasonic | Acoustic-electric hybrid | .011–.052 factory spec | Coated phosphor bronze |
His main touring electric is the Fender Jack White Triplecaster Telecaster, a 2024 signature model he tours with in triplicate. His primary Triplecaster carries a B-bender system the retail version doesn't include, a holdover from the Raconteurs' 2019 tour. Two personal sparkle-blue Triplecasters round out the rotation. Fender's own spec sheet lists the retail model's factory strings as USA 250R Nickel Plated Steel at .010 to .046 (PN 0730250406), close in gauge and construction to D'Addario's NYXL1046. A custom Jazzmaster with a built-in Electro-Harmonix Pitchfork pitch-shifter runs slightly heavier at .011 to .049, close to D'Addario's NYXL1149. For acoustic-leaning material, his Triplesonic Acoustasonic Telecaster ships factory-specced at .011 to .052 coated phosphor bronze, though Premier Guitar's 2024 rundown describes his actual stage instrument as closer to .012 to .053, nearer in gauge to D'Addario's EJ16.
Whether that exact setup survives a 35-date run is an open question. White's tech has swapped his rig before without much public notice, and CYS will update this page if a fresh 2026 rundown surfaces.
For a guitarist whose whole career has run on turning cheap, unglamorous gear into something that fills a room, a record built to spotlight the instrument itself feels less like a pivot than a return to first principles. Full sourced breakdown of everything he plays, guitars, amps, pedals, and all three of his documented string gauges, lives on his CYS profile.
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