Jack White released his solo debut album Blunderbuss last week. He also performed a full set for the Unstaged webcast concert series, with actor Gary Oldman serving as director. Watch the complete show here.

White spoke with Gibson about his many current projects which include a tour, film score work, and another album down the road.

“We had enough [songs] for an album at one point, but I just kept going… I’ve got another 12 songs that I haven’t finished yet,” he said.

White is promoting Blunderbuss with a big tour, which he said is allowing him to perform all sorts of different material.

“There’s songs that White Stripes never really played live, or Raconteurs never really got that into, or songs that I brought to the table in a band – songs like ‘Buffalo’ – and now I can elaborate on them,” he said, before clarifying that the tour has nothing to do with nostalgia. “It needs to be alive in the moment. It has to be something new to everybody on stage, it can’t be some recreation of something from years ago. I don’t wanna waste my time doing that.”

Jack White has been hired to write, produce and perform the score for an upcoming film adaptation of The Lone Ranger, Variety.com has reported. The Walt Disney Pictures project is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, who said, “Jack’s an amazing songwriter with a unique style. We’re thrilled to hear his fresh take on the ‘William Tell Overture.’”

Bruckheimer said the idea to recruit White came from actor Johnny Depp and film director Gore Verbinski. “Gore hatched the idea and Johnny was thrilled with it,” Bruckheimer said. “We’re all very excited to have [White] on board.”

White has never scored an entire film, but he did write a song for the 2008 James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, and performed a track for 2007’s Cold Mountain. Starring Depp and Armie Hammer, The Lone Ranger is currently being filmed in New Mexico. The film is slated for release on May 31, 2013.