The Raconteurs joined Jack White for a five-song encore in Nashville, bringing the full band back to the stage for the first time since December 2019. The appearance came during White's October 10 show at The Truth: Brendan Benson and Jack Lawrence joined White and Patrick Keeler, who has also been drumming in White's solo touring band.
Source: yoowan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. Archival photograph from T in the Park, July 2008; cropped and resized. The photo adaptations remain under the same license. This is not the Nashville reunion.
The encore reached back to the first two albums
According to NME's report, the set opened with Steady, As She Goes, followed by Hands, Level and Broken Boy Soldier. Carolina Drama closed it. Those choices drew on the band's 2006 debut and 2008 follow-up, rather than the newer material from Help Us Stranger.
The return was part of a solo concert, not a separately announced Raconteurs headline show. That distinction matters when reading a reunion headline. The report establishes that the four musicians played together; it does not provide a new album date or a touring itinerary comparable with an announced run such as the Oasis reunion tour.
A 2020 release does not fill the stage gap
The label's archive helps untangle the dates. Third Man Records released Help Us Stranger in June 2019, the band's third studio album. That was the album comeback after Consolers of the Lonely, not the start of the nearly seven-year interval now being discussed.
There was also a Raconteurs release in 2020. But Third Man's announcement for Live at Electric Lady says its seven live tracks were recorded in late 2019. A release date and a performance date answer different questions. The later arrival of that EP does not mean the quartet resumed public touring in 2020.
Keep the footage attached to its date
Fans now have a new shared-stage appearance to place beside that archive. The band's catalog and lineup history provide background, but old live recordings and photographs should not be presented as evidence of this particular night. When saving concert photos or passing clips along, keeping the original event and credit with the file preserves the difference between a reunion report and an archival memory.
