The White Stripes’ collected lyrics are getting the e book therapy this 12 months, arriving in hardback by way of Third Man Books. Jack White’s phrases to his catalog with drummer Meg White will probably be offered with images, alternate variations, and tough drafts, together with essays from Hanif Abdurraqib, Caroline Randall Williams, and Ben Blackwell. The White Stripes Full Lyrics is out October 3.
This 12 months marks the twentieth anniversary of the White Stripes’ 2003 album, Elephant, which obtained reissued. Earlier in 2023, Jack White lately printed a poem on Instagram in tribute to his former bandmate, writing “To be born in one other time/any period however our personal would’ve been high-quality.” The publish arrived within the wake of a social media flare-up that disparaged Meg White’s expertise, with Questlove and Karen Elson becoming a member of the web crowd that rallied in her protection.