Audio from The White Stripes’ ultimate live performance launched digitally: Stream
The White Stripes formally referred to as it quits simply over eight years in the past. Nevertheless, the band took its ultimate bow onstage 4 years prior with a Mississippi present in 2007. Now, audio footage from that final live performance has lastly made its method on-line and is offered to stream and obtain.
The now-historic present occurred July 31st in Snowden Grove, proper close to the border between Mississippi and Tennessee. Over the course of some hours, Jack White and Meg White tore by 24 songs in whole, together with “Icky Thump”, “As Ugly As I Appear”, “Losing My Time”, “John the Revelator”, and “Dying Letter”. The storage rock duo ended the night — and in the end their reside efficiency historical past — with Leadbelly’s conventional blues track “Boll Weevil”.
“I used to be dumbfounded,” he added. “I had no thought what she was speaking about. I had no thought what she meant. I had no thought what to do. I appeared round to see if anybody else heard what Meg had stated, however I used to be on their own.”
Blackwell then moved shortly to seize no matter paperwork and ephemera he might. He additionally made certain to scribble down the setlist and be aware of explicit moments all through the live performance.
