Third Man Records<\/a>, with a limited run available at their Midtown storefront starting at 11 a.m. this Saturday. We\u2019ll also be broadcasting live from Third Man on Record Store Day.<\/p>\nA long time coming<\/p>\n
WDET archives are surprisingly sparse, in part due to the losses the station experienced when the old studios at the top of the Maccabees Building had a destructive fire. Resource scarcity of non-commercial public media also deflected attention from archival work to the daily grind of timely programming.<\/p>\n
So, you can imagine my surprise when one of our producers brought a burned CD to my attention just a few weeks after starting at WDET. On that blank disc scrawled with sharpie was 6 songs by the White Stripes that originally aired live on Willy Wilson\u2019s radio program on February 5, 1999. Those six songs include \u201cSugar Never Tasted So Good,\u201d \u201cThe Big Three Killed My Baby,\u201d \u201cDo,\u201d \u201cJimmy the Exploder,\u201d \u201cScrewdriver\u201d and \u201cDead Leaves and The Dirty Ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
I knew that WDET had a proud history of recording sessions with some legendary acts \u2014especially prior to the format changes of the 00\u2019s that briefly abandoned the music legacy Detroit Public Radio had become famous for\u2014but I was delighted at the quality and energy of the performance, and even more shocked that these recordings had not been shared since the original broadcast.<\/p>\n
The audio from these live sessions is uncanny\u2014here is a home-grown product of the burgeoning garage rock scene on the cusp of greatness, and we have this distillation of something powerful, just seething and ready to burst.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cass Corridor collaboration<\/p>\n
Luckily, WDET has great neighbors and friends here in the Cass Corridor and the good folks at Third Man Records agreed this was something they could and should approach the band with. It passed the muster, and the band and label agreed to release a limited edition run to aid WDET in fundraising.<\/p>\n
We couldn\u2019t be happier to see this music available to fans, and to celebrate the connection between the incredible artists that make our city what it is, and the station that\u2019s been committed to reflecting it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A big thanks from WDET to the White Stripes, and to Roe Peterhans, Dave Buick and the great staff at Third Man Records. And to Jack White\u2014whose commitment to Detroit\u2019s music culture continues to create moments like this\u2014we\u2019re grateful for all he\u2019s done to help keep that legacy alive.<\/p>\n
Jam with us at Third Man\u00a0<\/p>\n
If you want to get your hands on this vinyl-pressed piece of Detroit\u2019s music mythos, join us at Third Man Records on Canfield starting at 11 a.m. on Record Store Day. We\u2019ll be broadcasting live from the store with Ann Delisi, Rob Reinhart, and Jon Moshier.<\/p>\n
This release is available in-store only, and each customer is limited to one purchase of the record for $101.90. The net proceeds of the album will support WDET in days yet to come. This is a limited edition pressing and we know it will sell out fast, so don\u2019t delay!<\/p>\n
Happy record store day from the staff at WDET!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record Store Day this year comes with a WDET collaboration with Third Man Records and a pretty great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-592446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}