Artist: Frank Black
Album: Honeycomb
Bitrate: 198kbps avg
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Genre: Indie
Size: 73 megs
Playtime: 0h 49min 34sec total
Rip date: 2005-05-03
Store date: 2005-07-19
Track List:
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01. Selkie Bride 3:05
02. I Burn Today 4:05
03. Lone Child 3:11
04. Another Velvet Nightmare 4:25
05. Dark End Of The Street 3:53
06. Go Find Your Saint 2:05
07. Song Of The Shrimp 3:10
08. Strange Goodbye 2:09
09. Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove 4:11
Day
10. Honeycomb 3:53
11. My Life Is In Storage 5:40
12. Atom In My Heart 2:41
13. Violet 2:09
14. Sing For Joy 4:57
Release Notes:
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Frank Black is going down South. Billboard.com reports that the Pixies frontman
is releasing Honeycomb on July 19 through Back Porch Records, a roots, rock, and
Americana imprint of EMI. The album was produced by Jon Tiven, who has helmed
the boards for B.B. King, Wilson Pickett, and Black on several "Headache"
B-sides. Recording took place at Dan Penn's Better Songs and Gardens studio in
Nashville in four days last April.
Honeycomb features work from eminent studio musicians such as keyboardist
Spooner Oldham, guitarist Steve Cropper, and drummer Billy Block. The album
features 11 original songs from Black, including "Atom in My Heart", "Another
Velvet Nightmare" (co-written with Reid Paley), "Go Find Your Saint", "Violet",
"I Burn Today", and "My Life Is in Storage". The three covers that round out the
record are Doug Sahm's "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day", Roy Bennett and
Sid Tepper's "Song of the Shrimp"-- which was made popular by Elvis Presley in
the film Girls, Girls, Girls-- and Dan Penn and Chips Moman's "Dark End of the
Street".
Speaking about the album, Black said, "I can say without a doubt that the
Honeycomb session was the most moving and mind-blowing experience I've ever had
in my musical career. Steve Cropper co-wrote the first rock'n'roll song that I
ever sang in front of an audience ("In The Midnight Hour"). It was a pure
pleasure to come full circle with Mr. Cropper." No plans for Black touring
behind Honeycomb have been set. He is performing with the reunited Pixies
through North America and Europe, with an appearance at the Sasquatch Festival
on May 28.