After spending a couple of years recording and touring with Jack White as the Raconteurs, 'My Old Familiar Friend' is Brendan Benson's fourth solo album. One of the most gifted and earnest songwriters around, Benson is able to take raucous guitar lines and effortlessly craft them into songs that marry pop and alt. rock. Included is the impressive and urgentbreak-up/make-up song 'A Whole Lot Better'.