Third Man Records/ColumbiaJack White stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday night to promote his new album, Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, which was released on Friday. The singer/songwriter stopped by the desk to chat with the host and later performed two songs from the album, “Love Is the Truth” and “You've Got Her in Your Pocket,” both of which marked the first time White has ever appeared on television with a solo acoustic performance.
White joined the host wearing a black suit with a white polka-dotted pocket square. The singer was lively and funny chatting with host Jimmy Fallon.
White’s new acoustic album prompted Fallon to kick off the interview by asking what the singer’s favorite acoustic albums are. White immediately answered Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan and then added “anything by Blind Willie Johnson” – a blues artist active in the '20s and '30s.
Fallon then talked about a box set that White curated, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, which features 800 songs by 172 artists and comes in a wooden box and features six 180g vinyl LPs pressed on burled chestnut colored vinyl, which Fallon said are so nice he doesn’t play them: “I'm afraid to play it because it's just so so gorgeous, I eat dinner off it. That's what we do.”
White conclude the interview with the story about the song, “Love is the Truth,” which was written to accompany a Coca Cola commercial. He said, “It was written with a piece a Japanese artist, Nagi Noda, did. It was a beautiful piece they put together and it was with Coca-Cola, and they asked me to write music to the piece that she had made, and I thought it was sort of a moment that could reach maybe a huge audience across the world, but Coca-Cola ended up not liking the commercial and only played it one time.” The song has never been commercially released until now.
White returned later to play both songs.
Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 is out now on White’s label, Third Man Records/Columbia.
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