A few weeks back, Jack White released a new record as a giveaway for anyone buying something from one of the Third Man Records shops. Clear vinyl, white label, plain sleeve. I guess owning and operating an in-house vinyl pressing plant has some advantages. After the release, the Third Man social media accounts seemed to promote ripping it and posting it online, hence these youtube embeds of the record. It’s a good one. A lot of the talk was about “a return to the White Stripes”, which isn’t completely off-base because these are mostly blues songs, but the band on these songs is bigger and the sound is not as raw-raw.
As an aside, I went to the store in Nashville a few years ago and it’s a really cool spot.
The album has since had an official release, streaming and physically, which is cool for me. I’ve played it enough that I’ll probably by a copy.