Sixteen Saltines

"Sixteen Saltines" is the second single from Jack White's 2012 solo album Blunderbuss. It was when White first played this song on Saturday Night Live that the album had a surge in popularity.^[1]

In December 2012, the song was named by Rolling Stone as the eighth-best song of the year.^[2]

History

White conceived the idea of this song from a conversation he had with his daughter. In an interview with NME, he explained, "My daughter asked for a snack, and I said, 'What do you want to have?', and she said, 'I think I'll have 16 saltine crackers.' And I said, 'You'll have three!' At times I imagined that character was eating cracker rations on a lifeboat and he's remembering all these other things."

Editions

As part of his Third Man Records vinyl records visual and physical concepts, he as made the 12" version of Sixteen Saltines the first record ever filled with liquid.^[3] The system is in fact two transparent vinyl sides with a thin air room in between the two parts in which floats the blue liquid.^[4] The 7" is also available in classic tri-colour^[5]^[6] like most of the Third Man Records' 7". There is also an unlimited regular black vinyl edition of the same release in 12" and 7".

Music video

In the music video directed by AG Rojas,^[7] White sits on a windowsill with his hands tied in front of him with rope as two men painted white surround him while a boy painted in blue watches. The video also contains various clips of children doing random activities and ends with Jack White then tied up in a vehicle that the boy painted in blue is about to set on fire, but the video is cut before any fire is seen.^[1]

Track listing

"Sixteen Saltines" – 2:37
"Love Is Blindness" (U2 cover) – 3:14^[8]

Personnel

White worked with several veteran musicians that he's work with before on the single.^[9]

Jack White – lead and backing vocals, electric lead, organ, and rhythm guitar
Carla Azar – drums, percussion
Brooke Waggoner – Hammond B-3 organ
Fats Kaplin – fiddle
Bryn Davies – upright bass
Kevin Childress – acoustic guitar, bass
Ben Blackwell – drums

References

Jack White

Studio albums	Blunderbuss (2012) Lazaretto (2014)

Singles	"Wayfaring Stranger" "Sitting on Top of the World" "Another Way to Die" (w/ Alicia Keys) "Fly Farm Blues" "Love Interruption" "Sixteen Saltines" "Freedom at 21" "I'm Shakin'" "High Ball Stepper" "Lazaretto" "Would You Fight for My Love?" "That Black Bat Licorice"

The White Stripes	The White Stripes De Stijl White Blood Cells Elephant Get Behind Me Satan Icky Thump

The Raconteurs	Broken Boy Soldiers Consolers of the Lonely

The Dead Weather	Horehound Sea of Cowards Dodge and Burn

Other bands	The Upholsterers The Go Goober & the Peas Two-Star Tabernacle

Other records	Van Lear Rose The Ghost Who Walks Rome

Filmography	It Might Get Loud Under Great White Northern Lights

Miscellaneous	Third Man Records Karen Elson Aluminium Gretsch Triple Jet Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit

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