Jack White - 'Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016' - 13/09/2016

Jack White has released Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 via Third Man Records / XL Recordings. The album collects 26 acoustic songs from throughout White’s wide-ranging musical career, spanning album tracks, B-sides, remixes, alternate versions, and previously unreleased tracks and it's Album Of The Week here at Rabbit Radio all week. White has also unveiled an innovative interactive timeline, allowing fans to explore his extraordinary musical history through a broad range of often exclusive multimedia.

Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, 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-inch 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.'

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 & produced by White & Brendan Benson), and 'Machine Gun Silhouette' (written by White & Rob Jones). The complete track listing is below.

Jack White - Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 track listing

SIDE A
1. Sugar Never Tasted So Good
2. Apple Blossom (Remixed)
3. I’m Bound To Pack It Up (Remixed)
4. Hotel Yorba
5. We’re Going To Be Friends
6. You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket
7. Well It’s True That We Love One Another
8. Never Far Away

SIDE B
9. Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
10. White Moon
11. As Ugly As I Seem
12. City Lights (Previously Unreleased White Stripes Track)
13. Honey, We Can’t Afford To Look This Cheap 
14. Effect & Cause

SIDE C
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)

SIDE D
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