Lafayette Blues

Infobox Single
Name = Lafayette Blues


Artist = The White Stripes
from Album =
B-side = "Sugar Never Tasted So Good"
Released = November 1998
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Length = 2:10
Label = Italy Records
Producer = Jack White
Last single = "Let's Shake Hands" (1998)
This single = "Lafayette Blues" (1998)
Next single = "The Big Three Killed My Baby" (1999)

"Lafayette Blues" is the second 7" single by American band The White Stripes. It is backed with "Sugar Never Tasted So Good", a song that appeared on the band's eponymous debut album "The White Stripes", which came out the following year.

1,000 copies were released in October of 1998 (see 1998 in music) on white vinyl. In 2001 a second edition of 1000 black vinyl were released. Today, it is extremely rare and expensive, fetched sometimes as high as $500 on auction websites like eBay.

The lyrics of "Lafayette Blues" are a list of French names of streets in the band's hometown, Detroit, Michigan. Live performances of "Lafayette Blues" contain various arrangements of the names.

#"Lafayette Blues"
#"Sugar Never Tasted So Good" - 2:56

References

* [http://www.whitestripes.net/releases-singles.php White Stripes.net] Retrieved January 1, 2006.
* [http://www.whitestripes.net/faq.php#lafayette White Stripes.net FAQ] . Retrieved January 1, 2006.