Patients, today the doctors and nursemaids are gonna give yer rock 'n roll stethoscopes the 99th degree with the flipside from the "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" single from the White Blood Cells-era Stripes.Written and recorded in 1937 at 508 Park Avenue in Dallas by Robert Johnson, "Stop Breaking Down Blues" has been given the cover treatment from Clapton to the Rolling Stones to Lucina Williams and back again. But the definitive version for us has to be the cut from the sweethearts of the blues-The White Stripes.
Hold it right there patients, not the track offa their self-titled LP. We are talking about the version recorded at Maida Vale for the BBC in 2001. This killer version is an explosive staggering behemoth of twisted sound-the aristocratic horseman of rock fires off round after round of six-string tombstone bullets that sweat soul and bleed cool. It truly sounds as if White has a .32-20 Winchester cartridge in his amp.
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"Stop Breaking Down Blues" (Live at Maida Vale)
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