Listen: Jack White Covers "Coal Miner's Daughter" In His Vinyl Recording Booth
As you've probably heard, official Record Store Day ambassador Jack White celebrated this weekend by installing a special Record Booth at Third Man Records HQ in Nashville where attendees can immediately record themselves and press the musical results to vinyl on-site. Yes, it's kind of the coolest thing ever… and yes, Jack White himself cut a song in the booth.
Follow Jack White on Ology for all the latest news, reviews, leaks, rumors, videos, tour dates, features, fan events and more
White's vinyl recording booth cut—an unsurprisingly fantastic cover of Loretta Lynn's seminal 1970 classic "Coal Miner's Daughter"—is currently streaming on Soundcloud. Give it a listen below and let me know what you think of it and what song...
The White Stripes: New Live Album, 'Elephant' Demos On The Way
The celebrate the 10th anniversary (yeah, holy shit, right?) of The White Stripes' seminal 2003 album Elephant, Jack White and Third Man Records' subscription service The Vault are readying a special Elephant package for its members: a brand-new live album titled Nine Miles From The White City (recorded during the band's July 2, 2003 show at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom) and a 7" single featuring early demo versions of "I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart" and "Little Acorns."
Follow Jack White on Ology for all the latest news, reviews, leaks, rumors, videos, tour dates, features, fan events and more
The set also includes a 56-page photo book by David Swanson documenting the writing and recording of Elephant. Needless to say, if you aren't already a...
Okay, so… Jack White. "Freedom At 21." Hype Williams. Oh boy, where to begin?
Remember that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when Galahad (the Pure) stumbles upon the Castle Anthrax, filled with virginal maidens inexplicably interested in bathing, dressing/undressing and performing oral sex on unsuspecting but totally okay with it passers by? Remember how rightly disappointed Galahad feels when his buddies bust him out of the joint? ("I can take them on single-handedly!" etc.)
Yeah, that doesn't happen in this video. Williams does his best to bring the sex (and the sideboob) to White's killer Blunderbuss single, but in true blue(s) style, Jack White is more interested in getting into high speed chases with Sheriff Josh Homme than kicking back in the most amazingly awesome prison of all time. Fifty million Jack White-crazed video vixens can't be wrong, right? Check out all the mayhem below.
It's certainly a lot more "va-va-voom" than your average Jack White fare and, to be expected, he looks more at home with his usual set of pleasures: rocking out with a Fender telecaster, sporting a pair of Mickey Mouse gloves and borrowing Martin Gore's feathers. The lime green muscle cars, highway hot cops and (ahem) unofficial prison dress code are more than a little Tarantino meets Jonas Åkerlund… i.e. decidedly outside of White's proverbial box… but he's a good sport throughout, paying his sexy dues in the saucy slammer before hitting the road again, living to fight (and rock out Ozzy Osbourne's old finger rings) another day.
What do you guy's think of Jack White's "whoa, hey now, child" new video? Get the conversation started in our comments section below.
Comments (1)