Jack White Singles Discovered Inside Furniture After Being Hidden for 10 Years

If you think Jack White's penchant for quirky, vinyl releases started with his solo career in the last few years, then you are way off. In the early 2000s, White and his friend Brian Muldoon played together in a duo known as The Upholsterers — named for their actual profession at the time — but instead of releasing their second single in a traditional manner, they decided to press just 100 copies and sew them into 100 pieces of furniture that Muldoon was reupholstering in 2004 without telling the owners of the furniture. Though it would be fair to assume that this story was just Jack White doing some self-mythologizing, Third Man Records claims that two of the 100 singles have recently been discovered.

In celebration of the single's discovery, White has shared the cover artwork, which was created by Detroit artist Gordon Newton. You can check out the eerie single cover here:

So if you happen to have any furniture that was reupholstered in Detroit in 2004, you should cut it open and see if there is a 7-inch inside, because it is worth a lot of money right now.

Though the actual music on the single has not yet surfaced online, Pitchfork points out that the Upholsterers's first single "Apple of My Eye" was released more conventionally, which you can check out below. It sounds a lot like early White Stripes, only dirtier and more lo-fi:

You can check out all of Jack White's upcoming tour dates here:

01/24-25: Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall
01/27: Starkville, MS @ Humphrey Coliseum at Mississippi State University
01/28: Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
01/30: New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
01/31: Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center at the University of Ohio
02/02: Norman, OK @ McCasland Fieldhouse at the University of Oklahoma
02/03: Albuquerque, NM @ Popejoy Hall at the University of New Mexico
02/04: Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
03/12-14: Bogota, Colombia @ Festival Estereo Picnic
03/14-15: Santiago, Chile @ Lollapalooza Chile
03/21-22: Buenos Aires, Argentina @ Lollapalooza Argentina
03/28-29: Sao Paulo, Brazil @ Lollapalooza Brazil

What do you think of the Upholsterers's music? Did you find a mysterious 7-inch record in your furniture? Let us know down in the comments section.

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Jack White, The White Stripes, Third Man Records