Jack White Launches Interactive Music Timeline

Jack White recently announced plans to look back on his sizeable recording career with the aptly titled acoustic collection Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016.

“You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket” is another of these tracks, which was released on the 2003 album Elephant as the first of the Stripes’ songs that didn’t feature Meg White.

Among the material on the site is the video for a Coca-Cola commercial for which White wrote the jingle, “Love Is the Truth”.

“Acoustic Recordings” thereby escapes me-and-my-guitar boredom while showcasing White as a songwriter and explorer of American musical forms from blues to country to pop and garage rock. 2016 is marked by the arrival of ‘City Lights, ‘ the first new, White Stripes cut six years – a forgotten gem from 2005’s Get Behind Me Satan. On the flip side having the bluegrass version of “Top Yourself” and an acoustic remix of “Carolina Drama” makes any retread complaints null and void.

Moreover, there’s a 2012 NPR interview chronicling the making of Blunderbuss, White’s Saturday Night Live solo debut, performing “Love Interruption”, and so much more. But “Acoustic Recordings 1998-2006” verifies that he belongs there – the American music singer/songwriter/bandleader of a generation.