Jack White – Acoustic Recordings 1998 – 2016 (XL Recordings) LP

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’.

Tracklist:

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
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
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

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