News - 11/10/2018

Rare Jack White cover of Blondie unearthed

Rare Jack White cover of Blondie unearthed

This is history... and Third Man Records co-founder and White Stripes archivist Ben Blackwell just unearthed a Jack White rarity. It's a cover of a Blondie track.

Indeed, in the late ’90s (according to an essay Blackwell wrote for Discogs), White worked as a session engineer for a band called 400 Pounds of Punk which was recording a cassette titled "He Once Ate a Small Child". Blackwell found the cassette in his basement recently and he writes that its “release was completely undocumented” until now.

Included on the tape is a cover of Blondie’s “One Way or Another,” featuring vocals from Jack White. In his essay, Blackwell calls the track “the rarest physical release of a Jack White performance.”

Check it out below.

 

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