Third Man Records is celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Raconteurs’ classic debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers, with a new Opaque Green Vinyl variant out on Friday, December 11, and available at select record stores on December 18. Pre-orders are available now. In addition, today sees the digital premiere of Broken Boy Soldiers (Deluxe) featuring the original studio album plus a full-show recording at New York City’s historic Irving Plaza on April 7, 2006 – the band’s first-ever live performance in the United States. While previously available as a one-time, vinyl-only pressing in a truncated form, this digital reissue of the Raconteurs first-ever show on American soil at Irving Plaza from April 7th, 2006 adds three previously unreleased takes from the encore. Here, the Raconteurs’ barn-burning "Blue Veins" is in elevated company with blistering covers of "It Ain't Easy" as popularized by David Bowie, along with the frenetic "Headin' For The Texas Border" originally by the Flamin' Groovies.
