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PRE-ORDER RELEASED 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016

XL Recordings present ‘Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016’, a 26 track double
CD / double LP featuring alternate versions, mixes and previously unreleased
recordings from The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and solo material all completely
remastered. This is the essential Jack White songwriting collection.

‘City Lights’ was written for The White Stripes’ ‘Get Behind Me Satan’ but then
forgotten until White revisited the 2005 album for Third Man’s 2015 vinyl reissue and
finished the recording in 2016. The track is the first new, worldwide commercially
released White Stripes song since 2008.

“This, like (Son House’s) ‘Grinnin’ In Your Face,’ is mirror-music,” writes renowned
music journalist Greil Marcus of ‘City Lights’ in the album’s exclusive liner notes, “the
singer talking to himself, trying to tell himself the truth, which he’s going to need if
he’s going to step out of his door, walk into the world, and fool himself, for just a
second, that he’s ready to take it on. As you listen, it’s no surprise at all that it took
most of White’s music-making life to bring the song home.”

‘Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016’ collects 26 acoustic songs from
throughout White’s wide-ranging musical career, spanning album tracks, B sides,
remixes, alternate versions and previously unreleased tracks. The album, arranged in
chronological order, includes acoustic songs made famous by The White Stripes,
beginning with ‘Sugar Never Tasted So Good’ (originally found on The White Stripes’
second-ever 7” single) and then lighting upon favourites like ‘Apple Blossom’ and ‘I’m
Bound To Pack It Up’ (remixed here from the original recordings on 2000’s ‘De Stijl’),
‘Hotel Yorba’ and ‘We’re Going To Be Friends’ (from 2001’s ‘White Blood Cells’),
‘You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket’ and ‘Well It’s True That We Love One Another’ (from
2003’s Grammy Award-winning ‘Elephant’), ‘Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)’, ‘White
Moon’ and ‘As Ugly As I Seem’ (from 2005’s ‘Get Behind Me Satan’), ‘Effect & Cause’
(from 2007’s ‘Icky Thump’) and the Beck-produced ‘Honey, We Can’t Afford To Look
This Cheap’, first found on the B side to The White Stripes’ final single, 2007’s
‘Conquest’.

Also featured are ‘Never Far Away’ (recorded for 2003’s ‘Cold Mountain: Music From
The Miramax Motion Picture’) and ‘Love Is The Truth’ (written and recorded for Coca-
Cola’s 2006 ‘What Goes Around’ campaign) as well as the Bluegrass Version of ‘Top
Yourself’ and an acoustic mix of the epic murder ballad, ‘Carolina Drama’, both
written by White and Brendan Benson for The Raconteurs’ Grammy Award-winning
2008 album, ‘Consolers Of The Lonely’.
White’s two chart-topping solo albums, 2012’s ‘Blunderbuss’ and 2014’s ‘Lazaretto’,
are represented by a remarkably diverse range of material including ‘Love
Interruption’, ‘On And On And On’, ‘Blunderbuss’, ‘Entitlement’, ‘Want And Able’ and
alternative mixes of ‘Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy’, ‘Just One Drink’, ‘I Guess I Should
Go To Sleep’ and B side ‘Machine Gun Silhouette’.

The 26 tracks featured on ‘Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016’ were
remastered earlier this year by Andrew Mendelson at Nashville, TN’s Georgetown
Masters. All songs were written and produced exclusively by Jack White, except
‘Never Far Away’ (produced by T Bone Burnett), ‘Honey, We Can’t Afford To Look
This Cheap’ (produced by Beck), ‘Top Yourself (Bluegrass Version)’ and ‘Carolina
Drama’ (written and produced by White and Brendan Benson) and ‘Machine Gun
Silhouette’ (written by White and Rob Jones).

2LP includes digital download code.

Tracklisting
Sugar Never Tasted So Good
Apple Blossom (Remixed)
I’m Bound To Pack It Up
(Remixed)
Hotel Yorba
We’re Going To Be Friends
You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket
Well It’s True That We Love One
Another
Never Far Away
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
White Moon
As Ugly As I Seem
City Lights
Honey, We Can’t Afford To Look
This Cheap
Effect & Cause
Love Is The Truth (Acoustic Mix)
Top Yourself (Bluegrass Version)
Carolina Drama (Acoustic Mix)
Love Interruption
On And On And On
Machine Gun Silhouette (Acoustic
Mix)
Blunderbuss
Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
(Alternate Mix)
I Guess I Should Go To Sleep
(Alternate Mix)
Just One Drink (Acoustic Mix)
Entitlement
Want And Able