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THIRD MAN RECORDS – Vault Package No30 feat The Raconteurs, Jack White, The Dead Weather, The Kills and William Tyler

Posted: October 31, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Third Man is happy to announce the contents of our 30th Vault package, our final offering of 2016. This time around we wanted to showcase something special from every one of Jack White’s wide berth of musical projects, as well as some really cool extras from a pretty special event that fans were able to catch a glimpse of during Sunday’s Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Nashville episode, but weren’t able to hear in full. We got so excited putting this package together we decided to break with tradition and offer 2 full LPs for the first time.

Live at Disgraceland: From Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown LP
Anthony Bourdain and his team descended on Nashville hungry for culture and knowledge (as well as hot chicken, tasting plates, and tequila); they visited every nook and cranny of this town, hung with the locals, ate like czars, partied like rock stars, and woke up every morning fresh as daisies and ready to do it again. Parts Unknown does not come to your city in order to present a slide show of tourist spots and magazine cover spreads. Bourdain wants to understand what makes a city tick. He has a knack for getting down to the marrow of how a town’s denizens think and live, why they do what they do in their community, and how that relates to the country at large in this time and place, Earth 2016. This is a man after our own heart and we were so happy to welcome him into our world for a few, too-short days. Their time here culminated with a rager of party at Disgraceland (location… unknown) where The Dead Weather, The Kills, and William Tyler all played jaw dropping electric live sets, living room style, to a house full of well-fed, newly tattooed, appreciative friends. Wish you could have been there? Wish granted: we present the night’s musical entertainment in full for your listening pleasure…

The Dead Weather
1. Hang You From The Heavens
2. Gasoline
3. I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)

The Kills
1. Heart of a Dog
2. Impossible Tracks
3. Whirling Eye

William Tyler
1.We Can’t Go Home Again
2. I’m Gonna Liver Forever (If it Kills Me)
3. Area Code 601

Listen to a clip of “Gasoline” from the Dead Weather’s set below…

The Raconteurs – Live at Irving Plaza NYC April 7th 2006 LP
It’s been just over ten years since the first Raconteurs show on American soil. This release celebrates that momentous occasion with another hard slab of wax from the infamous Third Man Records tape vaults. Featuring cover art inspired by the original concert poster by long time visual collaborator Rob Jones, and featuring a set of songs that would prove to be classics, this album is a solid testament to the early fury and energy of those nascent and exciting times when The Raconteurs were first introduced to the world on the live stage.

Full set list:

Level
Intimate Secretary
Hands
Steady, As She Goes
Together
House
Store Bought Bones
Call It A Day
Yellow Sun
Broken Boy Soldier
Five on the Five
It Ain’t Easy
Blue Veins

Jack White / The White Stripes Double A-Side split 7″ “Love is the Truth (acoustic mix)” b/w “City Lights”
Two previously unheard, beautiful, and haunting Jack White compositions recently released on the Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 compilation paired together for this Vault only blue and red splatter 7″ vinyl in a heavy paper stock sleeve. This will be the only physical version of this 7″ available… ever.

The WHITE STRIPES – ” You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) “

Posted: September 23, 2016 in MUSIC
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Anyone who saw The White Stripes in concert witnessed Jack White introduce his “big sister Meg” on the drums. That was the story the rock duo concocted in the early days of the Stripes: that Jack and Meg were the youngest of 10 siblings, and they formed a band when Meg tried drumming on Bastille Day of 1997.

In actuality, John “Jack” Gillis met Megan White in the early ’90s, when he was in high school and she was a waitress. The Detroit area residents started hanging out at local concerts and record stores, then began dating. On September 21, 1996, when Jack and Meg were both 21, the pair tied the knot. Instead of Meg taking her new husband’s family name, Jack changed his last name to White.

Around that time, Jack was playing drums and guitar in various bands. But soon after getting married, the couple formed their own act, concocting the brother-sister story. In the early days of the White Stripes, most people (and the press) took the Whites’ lie as truth. However, after the duo began to attract mainstream attention in 2001, the couple’s ruse was exposed. A Detroit newspaper even published their marriage certificate as proof.

By then, Jack and Meg were no longer married (they divorced in 2000). But they remained bandmates and continued their brother and sister ruse as the White Stripes became global rock stars with the release of White Blood Cells in 2001 and then Elephant in 2003.

Although the pair kept spinning their yarn on stage through the end of the Stripes’ touring days in 2007, Jack gave a little peek behind the curtain in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2005. He suggested that the lie helped people take the duo seriously.

“When you see a band that is two pieces, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, you think, ‘Oh, I see…’,” Jack said. “When they’re brother and sister, you go, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’ You care more about the music, not the relationship – whether they’re trying to save their relationship by being in a band. You don’t think about that with a brother and sister. They’re mated for life. That’s what family is like.”

Jack and Meg dissolved their band about a decade after they ended their marriage. Jack married model/singer Karen Elston in 2005 (the couple divorced in 2013), while Meg married Patti and Fred “Sonic” Smith’s son Jackson Smith in 2009 (the couple divorced in 2014).

 

The WHITE STRIPES – ” Live at the Gold Dollar Vol. III “

Posted: October 25, 2015 in MUSIC
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Excerpts from Third Man Records package No26,

As the focal point of Vault package #26, a complete recording from that evening, newly mixed from original multi-track sources, will be pressed on blood red vinyl and made available to subscribers worldwide. The White Stripes Live at the Gold Dollar Vol. III is the third release (Vault 13 comprised both volumes I and II) in an on-going series that will eventually see the release of all extant audio from the band at the Gold Dollar. There are still many unheard treasures to be revealed.

This is the first White Stripes show released from the pivotal year 1999…the year which saw the band unleash their first album, do their first extended run of touring with three shows opening for Pavement in the Southeast and found Jack White buying his soon-to-be trademark Airline guitar…all building blocks to what would eventually turn the band into the international juggernaut they became.

The White Stripes Live at the Gold Dollar Vol. III

Track list:

Broken Bricks
Jimmy the Exploder
The Big Three Killed My Baby
Stop Breaking Down (first live performance) (Robert Johnson)
Suzy Lee (first live performance)
Let’s Build a Home
Sugar Never Tasted So Good
Do
Little People
One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan)
Astro (first live performance)
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Wasting My Time
Red Bowling Ball Ruth
Cannon/John the Revelator/Grinnin’ in Your Face (Son House)
Let’s Shake Hands

In conjunction with the live album, a reproduction of one of the Jack White-designed flyers for that evening… three black-and-white peppermints, each varying in circumference and oriented on top of each other…will be included in the package as an 10.75” x 14″ iron-on transfer. All Vault members will be welcome to submit photos of their use of the transfer and the member who’s submission is considered the “best” by the TMR team will win a rare, limited test pressing of the aforementioned LP.

Additionally, the other flyer from that evening (also a peppermint, this time on a field of red sparkly naugahyde) AND the setlist as written in Jack’s hand will be included as high-quality color reproductions. Fully utilizing everything in the TMR archives to round out the package finds us also printing the news clipping of the show preview and the hand-written price list from the merch table for that night. Third Man is nothing if not thorough.

Completing the Gold Dollar presentation will be two full-color, 8 x 10, glossy prints of photographs taken by the estimable Doug Coombe, featuring Jack and Meg live on stage at the tiny Cass Corridor club in 1999. These are visually arresting to say the least.

The 7” for Vault 26 is a continuation of the Dead Weather single series, pairing the moving torch song “Impossible Winner” and “Mile Markers.” When complete, every song from the Dead Weather’s critically-lauded album Dodge and Burn will appear exclusively in 7” form as a single on captivatingly colored vinyl. Are these two songs a hint as to the next possibly music video to come from this merry band of grifters…it seems only time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy Alison belt this one out complete with string section accompaniment and revel in the inherent beauty in this transcendent album-closer.

Harkening back to where this all started, the bonus item for this vault package will be an impressive 1.25” enamel pin of the new Third Man Records Cass Corridor logo. Soon to be seen on the lapels and collars of bon vivants the world over, this dazzling pin will no doubt impress even the most die-hard skeptics.

THIRD MAN RECORDS – ” Get Behind Me Satan ” Vault Package

Posted: January 6, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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As 2015 marks ten years since the release of The White Stripesalbum “Get Behind Me Satan” album & tour, we are proud to use that as the focus of our 23rd Vault package. Completely dedicated to The White Stripes and highlighting their time in South America in 2005, this package should leave fans beyond satisfied. Learn more: http://thirdmanrecords.com/news/introducing-vault-package-23/

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The WHITE STRIPES – ” Get Behind Me Satan ” Originally released June 6th 2005

Posted: June 7, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The White Stripes, Jack and Meg Whites fifth album release, recorded in just two week and with only three electric cuts on the album,the rest a more melodic acoustic album with three songs dedicated to the 1940’s actress Rita Hayworth. the rockiest song is a very Led Zeppelinish styled song “Red Rain” certainly they still are the most unconventional duo in rock’n’roll.

Recorded on the stairway of Jack White’s home in the Indian Village neighborhood of Detroit, “Get Behind Me Satan” features marimba, tympani, mandolin and bells, as well as the usual guitar and drums and piano. Described by someone as an “oddball masterpiece,” it was not commercially released on vinyl until ten years after its initial release.  Now in celebration of its 20th Anniversary, “Get Behind Me Satan” is out now (in the US, July 11th Ex-US) on 2LP, one red and one clear disc, both including black wisps.  

The White Stripes’ 2005, fifth studio album reminds listeners of the fundamental nature of their production. While still maintaining their iconic elements listeners can immediately identify with The White Stripes, White trades in his classic, guitar heavy elements for piano ballads, mandolin, acoustic guitar, and even some touches of marimba. The Rolling Stone declared this album so “wild, it could make you weep over how pitilessly the Stripes keep crushing the other bands out there.” 

“Get Behind Me Satan” ranked number 3 on both US and UK charts, trumping their preceding albums’ rank on US charts. The album’s first track and single, “Blue Orchid”, became a fast radio hit in the US and UK, making it the band’s second UK Top 10 Hit. The album’s second single, “My Doorbell”, boasts a piano and drums charge, reviewed by NME as the “funkiest tune The White Stripes have ever put their name to.”

Slant Magazine invites listeners to “take solace in the unbridled honesty of simple, solid rock n’ roll” of “Get Behind Me Satan“, while Pitchfork crowns the album as some of the White Stripes’ best work. “Get Behind Me Satan” is that raw, foot-stompin’, soulful sound that will take your imagination to that peaceful front porch in some cozy, southern cabin. So sit back and stomp your foot to the melodic acoustic guitar, piano, stirring vocals, crickets, and the creaking sound of that porch.

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