Jack White Announces Acoustic Recordings, Shares White Stripes Unreleased Song “City Lights”: Listen

Jack White has announced a career-spanning new release: Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, out September 9 on double CD, double LP, and digitally via Third Man/Columbia. As the title suggests, it’s a 26-track compilation that features album tracks, B-sides, and alternate takes of songs by the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, as well as selections from White’s solo catalog. Acoustic Recordings also includes the unreleased White Stripes song “City Lights.” Listen to it below; if you pre-order the album, you’ll receive “City Lights” as a download tomorrow. The song was originally written for Get Behind Me Satan, but wasn’t finished until this year. According to a press release, “The track is the first new, worldwide commercially released White Stripes song since 2008.”

White wrote and produced all the songs on the record except for “Honey, We Can’t Afford to Look This Cheap,” which Beck produced, “Never Far Away,” which T. Bone Burnett produced,“Carolina Drama,” which White co-wrote and co-produced with Raconteurs bandmate Brendan Benson, and “Machine Gun Silhouette,” co-written with poster artist Rob Jones. All of the tracks were remastered in 2016 by Andrew Mendelson at Georgetown Masters in Nashville.

Acoustic Recordings also comes with liner notes by esteemed writer (and Pitchfork contributor) Greil Marcus. The tracklist is in chronological order. Check it out, along with the front and back covers, and an album trailer, below.

White’s last solo album, Lazaretto, came out in 2014. In the interim, he released an album with the Dead Weather, showed up on Beyoncé’s album, opened a store in Detroit, invested in a baseball bat company, stood up for gender equality, made music with Muppets, and played a record in outer space, among other things.

Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016:

01 Sugar Never Tasted So Good
02 Apple Blossom (Remixed)
03 I’m Bound to Pack It Up (Remixed)
04 Hotel Yorba
05 We’re Going to Be Friends
06 You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket
07 It’s True That We Love One Another
08 Never Far Away
09 Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
10 White Moon
11 As Ugly as I Seem
12 City Lights
13 Honey, We Can’t Afford to Look This Cheap
14 Effect & Cause
15 Love Is the Truth (Acoustic Mix)
16 Top Yourself (Bluegrass Version)
17 Carolina Drama (Acoustic Mix)
18 Love Interruption
19 On and On and On
20 Machine Gun Silhouette (Acoustic Mix)
21 Blunderbuss
22 Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy (Alternate Mix)
23 I Guess I Should Go to Sleep (Alternate Mix)
24 Just One Drink (Acoustic Mix)
25 Entitlement
26 Want and Able

Watch the White Stripes’ video for “Hotel Yorba”:

Check out Pitchfork.tv’s “Liner Notes” for the White Stripes’ White Blood Cells: 

 

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