Detroit native Jack White will take the stage for the Thanksgiving Halftime Show on November 27, during the Detroit Lions game against the Green Bay Packers. The 86th Annual Thanksgiving Day Classic airs later today at 1 p.m. EST on FOX.

We know Jack White as one half of The White Stripes, a soulful and electric solo artist, and owner and proprietor of Third Man Records and The Blue Room in Nashville. Additionally, he’s a recent inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Meg White. But before he was all of this, he had an odd little upholstery and furniture-making business in Detroit.

White, however, wasn’t really business-minded, as he admitted in a 2003 interview with The Believer. Speaking with Dave Eggers, White revealed that he apprenticed with Brian Muldoon for a few year

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