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In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the White Stripes albumElephant, Third Man has gone searching underneath couch cushions and in shady back alleys for the perfect Vault package to accompany the label’s reissue of the album. We think we’ve nailed it.
Of utmost excitement is a 2 x LP blistering live set by the White Stripes recorded July 2nd, 2003 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. TitledNine Miles From the White City, this 26-song, 79-minute, tour-de-force performance is indicative of the absolute explosiveness Jack and Meg embodied at the height of their 2003 touring. Highlights include a rare live performance of Captain Beefheart’s “Party of Special Things to Do”, an especially frenetic “The Hardest Button to Button” as well as the Stripes Christmas tune “Candy Cane Children.” Hearing “Seven Nation Army” in the middle of a set (and not as a closer or encore where it would soon find itself for the remainder of the band’s career) is a quaint reminder of the inauspicious beginnings of the future stadium anthem. The crystalline soundboard recording is best experienced through the impromptu, off-the-cuff performance of a song written on-the-spot that would be come to called “Little Cream Soda.” The song would be re-discovered (via an audience recording) by Jack and Meg during the recording of their albumIcky Thump, dusted off and recorded for what would become the White Stripes final studio album.
The White Stripes – Nine Miles From The White City
Label:Third Man Records
Series:Third Man Records Vault
Format:2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Red/White
Country:US
Released:2013
Tracklist
1 When I Hear My Name 3:01
2 Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground 3:02
3 Love Sick 3:50
4 Hotel Yorba 2:04
5 Aluminum 1:03
6 Cool Drink Of Water Blues 2:13
7 The Hardest Button To Button 4:05
8 I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart 3:37
9 Stones In My Passway 2:41
10 Stop Breakin’ Down 3:54
11 Do 3:46
12 In The Cold, Cold Night 3:53
13 Seven Nation Army 3:58
14 The Same Boy You’ve Always Known 4:07
15 Black Jack Davey 3:03
16 We Are Going To Be Friends 2:52
17 Offend In Every Way 2:16
18 Little Cream Soda 4:01
19 Cannon/Party Of Special Things To Do 2:50
20 Candy Cane Children 1:48
21 The Air Near My Fingers 2:53
22 Screwdriver (Tease) 2:32
23 Ball And Biscuit 7:02
24 Screwdriver (Reprise) 5:18
25 Let’s Build A Home 2:04
26 Goin’ Back To Memphis 5:40
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