Lafayette Blues (single)

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Lafayette Blues
single by The White Stripes

• Studio album: none
• First released: November 1998 on Italy Records (US)
• Recorded: 1997 at Third Man Studio in Detroit
• Formats: 7"
• Previous single: -
• Next single: The Big Three Killed My Baby (1999)

Contents 1 Track Listing 2 Liner Notes 2.1 Notes 3 Release History

Track Listing

1. "Lafayette Blues" - 2:10 (White/White)
2. "Sugar Never Tasted So Good" - 2:54 (White/White)

Liner Notes

• Recorded at Third Man Studio one block from Lafayette Street
• Recorded by Jack White
• Both songs Peppermint Stripe Music BMI
• "Sugar Never Tasted So Good" recorded to one track with one microphone
• Mixed at Ghetto Recorders with Jim Diamond
• Meg White: drums, tambourine, cardboard box
• Jack White: vocals, guitar
• Photography by Heather White
• Cover design by Ballistic
• The White Stripes thank for their support and inspiration -- God, family, Dan Miller, Brian Muldoon, Dave Buick, Ben Blackwell, Heather White, Baka, Butch, Andy & Patti, Marquis de Lafayette, Orson Welles

Notes

• The runout groove of the "Sugar Never Tasted So Good" B-side has the inscription "PULL THE STRINGS".
• The inserts feature a drawing of Marquis de Lafayette meeting George Washington, and a quote by Marquis de Chastellux (after attending an American party with Lafayette): "This was the first time I had heard music in America and been presented at any sort of social gathering. If the inhabitants of this New World awake to a sense of the fine arts and learn to be gay and social without formal invitations and stiff introductory ceremony, they will not need to envy us anything."

Release History

• November 1998: US, Italy Records, 7" (IR-006) (1st pressing)
  • 900 (some say 1000) copies on white vinyl, foldout picture sleeves (white front w/ peppermints, Jack and Meg pictures inside and two small photocopied inserts)
• November 1998: US, Italy Records, 7" (IR-006) (Limited pressing)
  • 100 copies on red/white swirl vinyl; 15 of them were hand-painted/numbered (#1-7 by Dave Italy, #8-14 by Jack, and #15 by Dave and Jack); sold at a triple record release party (along with two Hentchmen records) held at The Gold Dollar on October 23, 1998. Naturally, these records are ridiculously rare and pricy, and Ben Swank once sold a Dave-painted record for $18,000.
• Summer 2001: US, Italy Records, 7" (IR-006) (Second pressing)
  • 1000 copies on black vinyl; redesigned foldout sleeve (red front w/ peppermints, car/driving pictures inside with French and English words)
• April 2011: US, Third Man Records, 7" (TMR 089)
  • Third Man repressed Lafayette Blues on white vinyl and black vinyl for Record Store Day 2011. The white vinyl with black swirls was a limited edition release, and was sold only at Third Man in Nashville and selected record stores worldwide. The regular black vinyl edition is widely available.