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Honeycomb (album)

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Released
  
July 19, 2005

Artist
  
Black Francis

Producer
  
Jon Tiven

Length
  
50:19

Release date
  
19 July 2005

Label
  
Cooking Vinyl

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Recorded
  
by Dan Penn at Nashville, additional recording by Ben Mumphrey, mixed by Earl Drake, additional mixing by Dan Penn & Jon Tiven

Honeycomb (2005)
  
Fast Man Raider Man (2006)

Genres
  
Alternative country, Americana, Southern soul

Similar
  
Black Francis albums, Alternative country albums

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Honeycomb is the tenth studio album by American alternative rock musician Frank Black, released in July 2005 on Back Porch Records. His first original solo work since 1996's The Cult of Ray, Honeycomb was recorded in Nashville, and features notable local session musicians, such as Steve Cropper and ex-Presley guitarist Reggie Young.

Contents

Selkie bride frank black


Background

Frank Black had discussed making a Black on Blonde record for about ten years with producer Jon Tiven, where he would travel to Nashville (like Dylan with Blonde on Blonde) and record with local musicians. In 2005, Black eventually found the time to record such an album. He went to Nashville and met with musicians whom Tiven had selected for the record.

Covers

Unusually for a Frank Black album, it has 3 cover songs: "Song of the Shrimp," "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day" (by Doug Sahm) and "Dark End of the Street". Black said that, for the cover of "Song of the Shrimp," he took his cue from the version by Townes Van Zandt, adding that he had never heard Elvis Presley's version.

Track listing

All songs written by Frank Black except where noted.

  1. "Selkie Bride" – 3:08
  2. "I Burn Today" – 4:09
  3. "Lone Child" – 3:14
  4. "Another Velvet Nightmare" (Black, Reid Paley) – 4:36
  5. "Dark End of the Street" (Dan Penn, Chips Moman) – 3:56
  6. "Go Find Your Saint" – 2:05
  7. "Song of the Shrimp" (Roy C. Bennett, Sid Tepper) – 3:10
  8. "Strange Goodbye" – 2:12
  9. "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day" (Doug Sahm) – 4:07
  10. "Honeycomb" – 3:57
  11. "My Life Is in Storage" – 5:41
  12. "Atom in My Heart" – 2:46
  13. "Violet" – 2:14
  14. "Sing For Joy" – 5:04

Personnel

  • Frank Black – vocals, guitar
  • Steve Cropper - lead guitar
  • Buddy Miller - guitar
  • Reggie Young - guitar
  • Spooner Oldham - keyboards, bells, vocals
  • David Hood - bass guitar
  • Billy Block - drums
  • Anton Fig - drums
  • Akil Thompson - drums
  • Chester Thompson - drums
  • Jean Black - duet vocal (8)
  • James Griffin - vocals
  • Ellis Hooks - vocals
  • Dan Penn - vocals, tracking engineer
  • Jon Tiven - harmonica, producer
  • Earl Drake - Mixing
  • Songs

    1Selkie Bride3:06
    2I Burn Today4:06
    3Lone Child3:11

    References

    Honeycomb (album) Wikipedia