White Stripes' First Recording Session Ever to Be Released

Sometimes we’re so caught up with where music is going that we forget to look where it came from. Such is surely the case with Jack White; the one-man musical-juggernaut has been releasing so much music of late (Dead Weather, Raconteurs, et al), that his humble beginnings playing scrappy garage rock with Lady White seems like a distant past.

That is…[cue dramatic string swell]…until now.

Back in 1998, The White Stripes were just a young upstart duo yet to emerge from Detroit. Jack and Meg’s first recording session yielded their debut seven-inch single, “Let’s Shake Hands,” and the b-side, “Look Me Over Closely.” Now, alternative takes from that session will be available through Third Man Records.

The tunes will only be released to platinum members of The Vault, Third Man’s online service connecting dedicated fans to tunes locked up in, well, the vault.

While the Dead Weather and White’s other projects of late certainly get us revved up, it’ll be a refreshing (and hopefully low-down, fuzzy, messy, bluesy and so on) blast to hear the roots of the Stripes.

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