Jack White - Sixteen Saltines - Love Is Blindness Etched B-Side Indie Rock 12" 45 RPM
12"

Jack White - Sixteen Saltines


Label: Third Man Records – TMR-137
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single, Etched
New
45RPM 12" Vinyl w/ Playable Etched B-Side
Country: US
Released: 21 Apr 2012
Genre: Rock


Tracklist


A Sixteen Saltines
Written-By – Jack White


B Love Is Blindness
Written-By – U2

Companies etc
Manufactured By – United Record Pressing
Mastered At – Nashville Record Productions
Credits
Mastered By – WG


Notes
Has a playable etching on side B.
Sold at record store day 2012, and on Third Man Records store and online shop.



The second single off Jack White’s debut solo album Blunderbuss. Debuted on Saturday Night Live and worlds apart from the first single “Love Interruption,” the rock and roll power of “ Sixteen Saltines” is all the evidence needed to show that White’s solo work will be as varied as it is accomplished. Coupled with White’s stinging cover of U2’s “Love is Blindness” (from Achtung Baby) and the record metaphorically jumps off turntable.

The 12" single of Jack White’s “Sixteen Saltines” comes complete with a playable etching on the b-side (designed by George Ingram), a cover of U2’s “Love is Blindness.” Truly a sight to behold, the etching depicts Third Man’s iconic logo and the grooves of the record play through the image, presenting consumers with the world’s first-ever playable etched record (this is an entirely different process than your Split Enz and Styx records from 1980, this visual is all vinyl).




Jack White knew what he was doing when he took on "Love Is Blindness" as part of Q Magazine's 20th-anniversary tribute to U2's soon-to-be-reissued Achtung Baby. While the Irish arena rockers are probably best known for their windswept anthems, the Achtung Baby finale isn't too far from White's tastes in its original version: There's a "The House of the Rising Sun"-like chord progression, peals of organ, streaks of guitar fuzz, and a particularly emotion-wracked Bono vocal.

For this cover, the White Stripes frontman goes back to the song's down-and-dirty blues-rock heritage, howling the pained lyrics as if he were on a lost Nuggets cut.


Jack White - Sixteen Saltines

The Hangout Music Festival (5/18/12)




Jack White - Love is Blindness