Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

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“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”
“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” cover
Single by The White Stripes
from the album White Blood Cells
Released August 2002
Format CD, 7"
Genre Alternative rock
Length 3:03
Label XL Recordings
V2 (Radio CD promo)
Producer Jack White
The White Stripes singles chronology
"Fell in Love with a Girl"
(2002)		 "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
(2002)		 "We're Going to Be Friends"
(2002)

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" is a single by the White Stripes from their album White Blood Cells. It was released in August 2002. The song features a very raw guitar tone produced by an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

In 2006, a cover of the song appeared on Chris Thile's album How to Grow a Woman from the Ground. Jack White originally planned for this song to be much softer and done with an acoustic guitar.

The video for this song, directed by Michel Gondry, depicts Jack White coming back to his and Meg White's trashed house and surveying the destruction. While he goes from room to room, video of the party that led to the destruction, and of his and Meg's relationship before he left, is projected and occasionally super-imposed over the scene.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by The White Stripes unless otherwise noted

[edit] CD Promo

  1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
  2. "Suzy Lee" (BBC Radio-1 Evening Session)
  3. "Stop Breaking Down" (BBC Radio-1 Evening Session) (Robert Johnson)

[edit] Radio Promo CD

  1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"

[edit] 7"

  1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
  2. "Stop Breaking Down" (BBC Radio-1 Evening Session)

[edit] CD

  1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
  2. "Suzy Lee" (BBC Radio-1 Evening Session)
  3. "Stop Breaking Down" (BBC Radio-1 Evening Session)

[edit] DVD

  1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
  2. "Arthur P. Dottweiler"

[edit] References

[edit] Cover versions

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