Jean first crossed paths with White in 2009 when she left a demo CD at The Dead Weather concert.
“Jack got a hold of one of them,” she recalled in an interview. “And about a week later after that show, I got a call asking if I wanted to fly down to Nashville.”
Jean continued, “It felt like someone was cranking me, so I had to make a few phone calls to make sure no one was joking. I didn’t believe it at first.”
She then decided to move to Nashville when she was 19 to pursue music full-time.
Reflecting on her decision to relocate, she admitted it was “very intimidating at first,” but “as time went on, I realized that they’re there solely to make music. And they just love anyone who’s got a unique perspective on music. They were just very encouraging to me.”
She began working on projects at The Third Man and became part of the all-female gothic rock band, the Black Belles. The group disbanded in 2012, prompting Jean to pursue a solo career and release her first solo album in 2014.
“Because the road can do some crazy things to a girl band,” Jean told The Huffington Post. “That was the first band a lot of us actually full-on toured with. So we were just getting used to things. So new to everything that we were all kind of tense and didn’t know what was going on. … So we were very vulnerable and, you know, nervous. So we would take our nerves out on each other.”
Jean has released three albums so far: Bathtub Love Killings, Night Owl and Raving Ghost.