Courtney Barnett has covered the Rowland S. Howard Boys Next Door classic ‘Shivers’ and Jack White produced the track.
A statement from White’s label reads, “Third Man is privileged to work with Melbourne, Australia’s very own Courtney Barnett, a sharp singer-songwriter-guitarist who has quickly made her mark on garage pop fans worldwide with her witty, self-deprecating, and authentic observations turned into raw, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and blunt melodies. The wry-and-dry songstress stopped by Third Man Studios in Nashville over a long weekend this summer to record a couple tracks and damn did she ever deliver.”
The Howard song will be the b-side to ‘Boxing Day Blues Revisited’. It was recorded for a series of singles to be released by White on his Third Man Records label.
Rowland S. Howard wrote the song for the pre-Birthday Party band The Boys Next Door but it took Newcastle’s The Screaming Jets to make the song a hit in Australia. Their version reached no 19 on the Australian charts in 1993.
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