This month, White's label begin releasing out-of-print selections from Document's mammoth back catalog of 1920s and 1930s Mississippi delta blues � what they both call "vital, breathtaking recordings; the building blocks and DNA of American culture. Blues, gospel, R&B, soul, Elvis, teenagerism and punk rock." It's all being released on vinyl.

White recalls that his peers in his Detroit neighborhood listened to chart music and the grunge/rap music of the early '90s. The future White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather musician grew up in a house with six older brothers and three older sisters, and was subjected to country music and rock'n'roll.
"Then someone died, and their family sold their entire blues collection to a Detroit record store," he remembers. "They were all numbered, in the corner. I got there a coupla days late. A lot of the better records had gone, so I got to buy a lot of records I'd never seen before, by Tommy Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Willie McTell and all these people. I bought as many as I could � 30, 40 of them."