ARTiST : Frank Black
ALBUM : Fast Man Raider Man
LABEL : Coooking Vinyl
GENRE : Rock
RELEASE : 2006-05-31
STREET : 2006-06-19
ENCODER : LAME 3.90
QUALiTY : 208kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 148.90 MB
PLAYTiME : 01:34:44
+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
Disc 1/2
1. If Your Poison Gets You 2:56
2. Johnny Barleycorn 4:50
3. Fast Man 4:12
4. You Can't Crucify Yourself 3:23
5. Dirty Old Town 3:03
6. Wanderlust 3:27
7. Sevendays 4:11
8. Raiderman 3:04
9. End Of The Summer 3:53
10. Dog Sleep 3:48
11. When The Paint Grows Darker Still 3:34
12. I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh) 3:41
13. Golden Shore 3:17
47:19
Disc 2/2
1. In The Time Of My Ruin 4:21
2. Down To You 2:18
3. Highway To Lowdown 2:35
4. Kiss My Ring 2:29
5. My Terrible Ways 3:36
6. Fitzgerald 3:12
7. Elijah 3:16
8. It's Just Not Your Moment 5:32
9. The Real El Ray 3:21
10. Where The Wind Is Going 3:33
11. Holland Town 2:32
12. Sad Old World 4:57
13. Don't Cry That Way 2:25
14. Fare Thee Well 3:18
47:25
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Following the critical success of 2005s Honeycomb, Pixies icon Frank Black will
see the release of his ambitious new double-CD, Fastman/Raiderman, on Monday
19th June.
Paired again with producer Jon Tiven, the 27-song CD was recorded over a
two-year period at studios in Nashville and Los Angeles, and slams a bit harder
than the laid-back Honeycomb.
Fastman/Raiderman features some of the most celebrated players in music,
including Levon Helm from The Band, Tom Petersson from Cheap Trick, Heartbreaker
drummer Steve Ferrone, the legendary Al Kooper, honky-tonk hero Marty Brown,
songwriting enigma P.F. Sloan, and Simon Kirke from Bad Company and Free, as
well as Honeycomb returnees Steve Cropper, Reggie Young, Buddy Miller, Spooner
Oldman and Chester Thompson, to name just a few.
For Black, the recording of Fastman/Raiderman was a bit of a homecoming. On
Honeycomb I was walking on eggshells, he admits about his renowned back-up band.
These guys are still legends, but now that wed hung around a bit, I was more at
ease.
Songs on Fastman/Raiderman include the somewhat bizarre Kiss My Ring, the almost
hallucinogenic Dog Sleep, and the overlay of the lyrically obscure and the
body-punch, visceral groove of In the Time of My Ruin. Highway to Lowdown, Sad
Mans Song, and Where the Wind Is Going were originally recorded for Honeycomb
but didnt match that albums laid-back feel so have been in hibernation until
now. Fitzgerald and Elijah look back to when Black and the Pixies were just
beginning to turn rock music inside out from their home base in Boston, and My
Terrible Ways is a true, tragic story of heroism in the devastation in
Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina.
One of Blacks favorites is the track Raiderman which was recorded one lazy
summer night at Tivens house in Nashville. It boasts an accompaniment from a
chorus of cicadas chirping in the backyard and Tivens dog Sammy, who made
himself heard right before the second verse. That provides a nice backdrop to
this tale of a Polish coal miner who lost his legs to the coal train, Black
says. He ends up being a security man after he gets fired by the coal company,
chasing the Raiderman away.
As Black is fond of doing, some of the new songs were recorded in a single
24-hour marathon session with musicians coming and going in three shifts and
only one two-hour break for some shuteye.
We gutted it out on sheer adrenaline, Tiven remembers. By the end things were
getting surreal and we were just going with the untamed forces of the universe.
If youre halfway between waking and sleeping, you can do things with a song that
might not normally seem possible.
Black plans to put together a band that can support the songs on
Fastman/Raiderman and hit the road later this year. First, he'll join his Pixies
bandmates on a European summer tour.
http://www.myspace.com/fastmanraiderman