Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 (2016) FLAC Beolab1700

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VA - Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998 - 2016
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Artist...............: Various Artists
Album................: Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998 - 2016
Genre................: Acoustic
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2016
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.1 20141125
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 55 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 08/09/2016

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Tracklisting
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01. Sugar Never Tasted So Good 02:56
02. Apple Blossom (Remixed) 02:14
03. I'm Bound to Pack It Up (Remixed) 03:09
04. Hotel Yorba 02:11
05. We're Going to Be Friends 02:23
06. You've Got Her In Your Pocket 03:41
07. Well It's True That We Love One Another 02:39
08. Never Far Away 03:39
09. Forever for Her (Is Over for Me) 03:17
10. White Moon 04:03
11. As Ugly As I Seem 04:11
12. City Lights (Previously Unreleased) 04:51
13. Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap 03:56
14. Effect and Cause 02:59
15. Love Is the Truth (Acoustic Mix) 01:38
16. Top Yourself (Bluegrass Version) 04:37
17. Carolina Drama (Acoustic Mix) 05:53
18. Love Interruption 02:37
19. On and On and On 03:55
20. Machine Gun Silhouette (Acoustic Mix) 03:01
21. Blunderbuss 03:06
22. Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy (Alternate Mix) 03:03
23. I Guess I Should Go to Sleep (Alternate Mix) 02:37
24. Just One Drink (Acoustic Mix) 02:33
25. Entitlement 04:08
26. Want and Able 02:33

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Natural born archivist that he is, it is no surprise that he’d eventually choose to curate his own career. Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 is his first attempt at offering an alternative narrative of his own career, one that places his quieter side as the connecting thread running from the White Stripes through the Raconteurs to his solo work. It’s a tactic that diminishes some of the conventional notions about White, particularly that most of his music is grounded in the blues.
Despite Greil Marcus’ mention of blues icon Son House in the liner notes, most of the music on Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 bear stronger ties to country and folk, even British Invasion pop; the latter is evident not only on the sing-song whimsy of “We’re Gonna Be Friends” but the cinematic melancholy of “Forever For Her Is Over For Me.” Neither version here is heard in an alternate version, underscoring how this spin on White’s work isn’t revisionist, it highlights what was already there, yet there are rarities scattered throughout the collection: remixes of the early Stripes tracks “Apple Blossom” and “I’m Bound to Pack It Up,” alternate acoustic mixes of solo material from the 2010s, bluegrass versions of “Top Yourself” and “Carolina Drama,” a song from the Raconteurs. What first grabs the attention are assorted White Stripes rarities—the wry, funny Beck-produced B-side “Honey, We Can’t Afford To Look This Cheap,” the recently-completed outtake “City Lights”—and a stripped-down revision of “Love Is the Truth,” a song White wrote for Coca-Cola in 2006, but what impresses is the consistency.

Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 not only is a strong set of songs but it makes it plain that White has been mining the same territory, finding something new within it for nearly two decades.

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