The White Stripes - Conquest - Non-Album Tracks (2007-2008)

This is the fifth and last album of stray tracks for the White Stripes that I've made. Generally speaking, there's one of these for each studio album they put out. This one corresponds with 2007's "Icky Thump."

It's nice how so often I manage to bundle stray tracks like these into coherent collections that fit into one album's length of music, which I would consider roughly 35 to 50 minutes long. But it doesn't always happen that way. In this case, there's really only 22 minutes of White Stripes music. That's more like an EP than an album.

I've managed to flesh that out a bit by adding three Jack White solo songs from 2008 and 2009 that don't fit anywhere else. (He was fully involved with his new band the Reconteurs at that time. His first solo album wouldn't be released until 2012.) Even with those songs, it's still rather short at 32 minutes. But I'd rather keep it short than pad it out with lesser material.

The heart of this album are the first four songs, which make up the "Conquest" EP, released in 2008. The song "Conquest" is a cover made famous by Patti Page in the 1950s. A version of that appears on the "Icky Thump" album. But this is the "acoustic mariachi" version. I believe all the other songs on this album are originals.

Although this is my last album of White Stripes stray tracks, I do have one more album of theirs to post, which is a collection of acoustic versions of their songs. I'll post that some other time.

01 Conquest [Acoustic Mariachi Version] (White Stripes)
02 It's My Fault for Being Famous (White Stripes)
03 Cash Grab Complications on the Matter (White Stripes)
04 Honey, We Can't Afford to Look This Cheap (White Stripes)
05 Baby Brother (White Stripes)
06 Tennessee Border (White Stripes)
07 White Moon [Solo Piano Version] (White Stripes)
08 I Fought Piranhas [Solo Electric Version] (Jack White)
09 Another Way to Die (Jack White & Alicia Keys)
10 Fly Farm Blues (Jack White)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701102/TWHITSTRPES2007-2008_Cnqest_atse.zip.html

I believe at least three different covers were made for the "Conquest" EP. I picked the one I like the best. I didn't make any changes to it. The White Stripes apparently made the decision not to mention their band name on the cover, so I've stuck with that.

The White Stripes - Walking with a Ghost - Non-Album Tracks (2004-2005)

A couple of days ago, I accidentally posted a White Stripes stray tracks album I'd posted already. Luckily, The_Lighthouse noticed this right away, and I deleted it. This is the album I'd meant to post instead.

The White Stripes pretty much have an album of stray tracks for each studio album they released. This is essentially the companion album to their 2005 album "Get Behind Me Satan." About half of the songs here are officially released, with four of those from A- or B-sides, and another from an EP. There also is a Jack White solo song ("City Lights"), and two more songs related to a Loretta Lynn album he was heavily involved with at the time ("Van Lear Rose" and "Portland, Oregon,") "Whispering Sea" is a Lynn song from around 1960.

The unreleased songs that make up up the other half of this album generally come from concert bootlegs. I think more than any time before or since, the White Stripes in 2005 played a wide variety of cover songs in concert. I listened to several dozen rare songs played by them then. Unfortunately, I had to eliminate most of them due to sound quality issues, since they often played a song just once or twice, and the odds were it would only get recorded on an average sounding audience bootleg. Also, many times they would only play a minute or so of a song instead of the full thing, so I eliminated those too.

Happily, I was still left with a handful of songs. Generally speaking, they were the ones the band played a dozen times or more, enough so there was at least one well recorded version. Most of these are old blues songs drastically transformed into the White Stripes style, like Bob Dylan's "Outlaw Blues," or Son House's "Grinnin' in Your Face" or Robert Johnson's "Stones in My Passway." "Small Faces" is a 1968 song by the very obscure garage rock band "Public Nuisance." "Jack on Fire" is a 1980s song by the Gun Club. "Jack the Ripper" is from 1963, by Screaming Lord Sutch.

There are many more songs I wish I could have included, but didn't due to the sound quality issues I mentioned above. But I picked what I consider two of the best of these and added them as bonus tracks. "I'm Sorry" is a Bo Diddley song and "You Belong to Me" was a big hit in 1952.

01 Outlaw Blues - Jack the Ripper (White Stripes)
02 Walking with a Ghost (White Stripes)
03 Shelter of Your Arms (White Stripes)
04 Top Special (White Stripes)
05 Whispering Sea (White Stripes)
06 Though I Hear You Calling, I Will Not Answer (White Stripes)
07 Grinnin' in Your Face (White Stripes)
08 Van Lear Rose (Jack White)
09 Stones in My Passway (White Stripes)
10 Jack on Fire (White Stripes)
11 Portland, Oregon (Loretta Lynn & Jack White)
12 Small Faces (White Stripes)
13 Folk Singer (White Stripes)
14 City Lights (White Stripes)

I'm Sorry (White Stripes)
You Belong to Me (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701097/TWHITSTRPES2005_WlkingwthGhst_atse.zip.html

The cover is the cover to the "Walking with a Ghost" EP, with no changes whatsoever.

The White Stripes - Who's to Say - Non-Album Tracks (2003)

The White Stripes were a prolific band. Usually, for every album they released, they'd have another album's worth of stray tracks.

This is a case in point. In 2003, they released the album "Elephant." All of the songs here are also from 2003. Four of them come from B-sides. But that also was the year Jack White had some songs on the "Cold Mountain" soundtrack, so I've included those. The rest are unreleased, generally live songs with the audience noise removed. Three of those come from a rare (for the time period) solo concert by guitarist Jack White.

By the way, "Cold Brains" is a song by Beck, and "Hear My Train A-Comin'" is a song by Jimi Hendrix. Anybody who covers both Beck and Hendrix is okay by me. ;)

In short, if you like the White Stripes, you should like this.

01 Black Jack Davey (White Stripes)
02 Good to Me (White Stripes)
03 Who's to Say... (White Stripes)
04 St. Ides of March (White Stripes)
05 Wayfaring Stranger (Jack White)
06 Never Far Away (Jack White)
07 Great High Mountain (Jack White)
08 Everywhere I Go, I'm Always There (White Stripes)
09 Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues (Jack White)
10 Cold Brains (Jack White)
11 Fragile Girl (Jack White)
12 Mr. Cellophane (White Stripes)
13 Hear My Train A-Comin' - Ball and Bisquit (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701099/TWHITSTRPES2003_WhostoSy_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I took a 2003 concert poster, cropped it, and changed some lettering to add in the album title.

The White Stripes - Boll Weevil - Non-Album Tracks (2001-2002)

A few months ago, due to a request, I posted an album of White Stripes stray tracks from the earliest part of their career. A lot of people know the band put out a lot of singles in their first few years, and that's what that post mostly consisted of. But the band actually had a lot of stray tracks throughout its entire career. I've made a series of albums for them, and here's the next in that series.

Many of the songs here are covers. That includes two Dylan songs ("Love Sick" and "Isis"), a blues song best known from a Rolling Stones cover ("Stop Breaking Down"), a traditional blues song that was made into a 1960s pop hit ("Boll Weevil"), and a campy song from the 1960s spy spoof TV show "Get Smart" ("99").

The album ends with a demo of one of the greatest songs of all time, "Seven Nation Army." I'm not sure where it comes from since it's unreleased and a one-off, but it's definitely a legit demo.

01 Rated X (White Stripes)
02 Baby Blue (White Stripes)
03 Boll Weevil (White Stripes)
04 Love Sick (White Stripes)
05 Goin' Back to Memphis (White Stripes)
06 For the Love of Ivy (White Stripes)
07 Isis (White Stripes)
08 Red Death at 6;14 (White Stripes)
09 Stop Breaking Down (White Stripes)
10 99 (Jack White with Beck)
11 Seven Nation Army [Demo] (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701098/TWHITSTRPES2001-2002_BllWevil_atse.zip.html

I made the album cover using a 2002 White Stripes concert poster for the artwork.

The White Stripes - Let's Shake Hands - Non-Album Tracks (1997-2000)

A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a comment here suggesting that I gather up all the early stray tracks by the White Stripes. To be honest, there aren't a lot of rock bands from the last 20 years or so that interest me as much as those from the 1960s to 1980s. But I definitely consider the White Stripes worthy. So this is the first of several albums from them.

The songs here actually start before the White Stripes even existed. The first three songs are by a duo called the Upholsterers, made up of future White Stripes frontman Jack White and Brian Muldoon of the band Muldoons. They only released three songs, which came out in 2000, but actually were recorded in 1997. But don't worry, these songs sound exactly like early White Stripes songs.

The other songs here are mostly A- and B-sides. But I was very careful to make sure there was no overlap between any of these songs and the songs on the official White Stripes albums. I also did a deep dive and found a couple other interesting songs, such as a live version of the classic soul tune "Love Potion No. 9" recorded at the White Stripes' very first public performance.

There are 17 songs here, which normally would be a lot, but they're all pretty short, so this only totals 39 minutes of music.

01 Apple of My Eye (Upholsterers)
02 I Ain't Superstitious (Upholsterers)
03 Pain [Give Me Sympathy] (Upholsterers)
04 Love Potion No. 9 (White Stripes)
05 Signed D.C. (White Stripes)
06 I've Been Loving You Too Long (White Stripes)
07 Let's Shake Hands (White Stripes)
08 Look Me Over Closely (White Stripes)
09 Lafayette Blues (White Stripes)
10 Candy Cane Children (White Stripes)
11 Hand Springs (White Stripes)
12 Red Bowling Ball Ruth (White Stripes)
13 Jolene (White Stripes)
14 Lord, Send Me an Angel (White Stripes)
15 Party of Special Things to Do (White Stripes)
16 Ashtray Heart (White Stripes)
17 China Pig (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701096/TWHITSTRPES1997-2000_LetsShkeHnds_atse.zip.html

Thanks to The Lifehouse for the cover art.