When you need a couch restored, you call an upholstery business. When you’re the famous Sam Phillips Recording, and that couch once held the butts of legends like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and more, then you call Third Man Upholstery.
Okay, let’s back track a bit here. Many fans of Jack White know that he worked in upholstery as a teenager, even famously hiding records in a handful of furniture items around the Detroit area. What the may not know is that White’s Third Man Records company has its own upholstery division, which is fully functional though presumably not a focus of the Third Man enterprise.
White recently teamed with the famed Sun Records label, which notably discovered artists like Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and more, on a massive project to release selections from the Sun Records catalog on high quality LPs. Logically speaking, if Sam Phillips’ family called Jack White to restore their old recordings, then it would only make sense for White to restore their old couch too. Apparently, according to Rolling Stone, White personally took the job of restoring the couch, choosing the new fabric and color scheme of the historic furniture.
And that’s how Jack White came to restore a couch that Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash once sat on.