Third Man Records

About this audio guide

This guide to Third Man Records in Nashville follows a nineteen fifty-five Scully lathe that began its life pressing King Records sides in Cincinnati, before Jack White found it half-dead in a Nashville engineer's workshop and built a room around it. You will hear how mastering engineer George Ingram and studio manager Wes Garland revived the machine, and how the Blue Room became the only venue on earth recording live bands straight to acetate, with no second takes allowed. Listen for the cutting room through the glass wall facing the stage.