This year’s surprise White Stripes split was a bit devastating for some of us, sure, but Jack White’s Third Man Records deserve plenty of credit for helping with the healing process: Not only has White begun performing old favorites live again, but the Nashville label are now set to reissue both of the duo’s stunning debut singles, “Let’s Shake Hands” b/w “Look Me Over Closely” (Marlene Dietrich Cover) and “Lafayette” b/w “Sugar Never Tasted So Good.”
According to the label’s official site and Buy These Records (via CoS), the pair of 1998 singles will arrive on Record Store Day (April 16) alongside more TMR 7” releases: two unreleased Karen Elson tracks “Vicious” and “In Trouble With The Lord” with rose pedals inside the 1,000 limited vinyl copies and “Two Against One”/”Black”, a pair of cuts off Jack White’s Danger Mouse/Daniele Luppi-led project, Rome.
Between these releases and recent reissues of the first three White Stripes LPs, it’s clear that White and friends are making good on their promise to re-release their entire catalog over time. Y’know, even tunes originally put out on 45s fetching $18,000 at auction.