Stephen Colbert gets Jack White back on stage

Jack White may have announced that he's taking a break from performing live, but the Nashville rocker is making an exception for his pal Stephen Colbert.

White's supergroup, The Dead Weather, will perform on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Sept. 14. They're getting ready to release a new album, "Dodge and Burn," on Sept. 25. The band has said that it had no plans to tour in support of the album — and that followed White's announcement in April that he would take a break from live performance "for a long period of time."

But if any late-night TV host could get White back on a stage — well, we would have guessed it'd be his good friend Conan O'Brien. Still, Colbert might be a close second. Back when he hosted "The Colbert Report," he paid a visit to White's Third Man Records building in Nashville and even cut a 7-inch single with The Black Belles.

Colbert, of course, is taking the reins from TV legend David Letterman, who retired in May. His hotly anticipated "Late Show" debut is set for Sept. 8. Other Nashville-tied guests in his first two weeks of shows include Toby Keith (Sept. 10) and Willie Nelson (Sept. 16).

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" guests

• Sept. 8: George Clooney, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, Jon Batiste and Stay Human

• Sept. 9: Scarlett Johansson, SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, Kendrick Lamar

• Sept. 10: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Toby Keith

• Sept. 11: Amy Schumer, Stephen King, Troubled Waters

• Sept. 14: Emily Blunt; Justice Stephen Breyer; musical performance by The Dead Weather

• Sept. 15: Jake Gyllenhaal; musical performance by Run The Jewels with TV On The Radio

• Sept. 16: Kevin Spacey; Carol Burnett with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of "Broad City"; musical performance by and interview with Willie Nelson

• Sept. 17: Naomi Watts; United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

• Sept. 18: Lupita Nyong’o; Sen. Bernie Sanders; interview with and performance by "An American in Paris’" Christopher Wheeldon, Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope