Third Man Records co-founder and White Stripes archivist Ben Blackwell has unearthed a Jack White rarity. In the late ’90s, in line with an essay Blackwell wrote for Discogs, White labored as a session engineer to assist a band referred to as 400 Pounds of Punk document a cassette titled He Once Ate a Small Child. Blackwell discovered the cassette in his basement not too long ago; he writes that its “release was completely undocumented” till now.
Included on He Once Ate a Small Child is a canopy of Blondie’s “One Way or Another,” that includes vocals from Jack White. In his essay, Blackwell calls the monitor “the rarest physical release of a Jack White performance.” Listen under.
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