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- In 1999, the White Stripes signed with the California-based label Sympathy for the Record Industry. In March 1999, they released the single “The Big Three Killed My Baby”, followed by their debut album, The White Stripes, on June 15, 1999.
The self-titled debut was produced by Jack and engineered by Jim Diamond at his Ghetto Recorders studio in Detroit. The album was dedicated to the seminal Mississippi Delta blues musician, Son Housean artist who greatly influenced Jack.
The track “Cannon” from The White Stripes contains part of an a cappella version, as performed by House, of the traditional American gospel blues song “John the Revelator”. The White Stripes also covered House’s song “Death Letter” on their follow-up album De Stijl.
Looking back on their debut during a 2003 intervi
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