



Jack White nearly attended divinity school

NEW YORK (AP)  Jack White of the White Stripes nearly traded his signature red-and-white outfits for a priest's robe and collar.

White:"I think that Loretta Lynn is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century." Diane Bondareff, AP

As a young teen, the 29-year-old rocker was nearly on the road to divinity school when an amplifier changed his mind.

"I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin and I was going to become a priest, but at the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school,'" White said in an interview to air on CBS' 60 Minutes Wednesday. "I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me."

In the interview, White also discusses how his unlikely partnership with country great Loretta Lynn started with a dedication to her on the White Stripes' disc White Blood Cells and culminated with White producing Lynn's Grammy-nominated album Van Lear Rose.

"I think that Loretta Lynn is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century," White said.

The CBS news program airs Wednesday at 8 p.m. (ET).

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