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Frank Black: Pistolero

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On March 9, 1999, “spinART Recirds” label released “Pistolero”, the second Frank Black album. It was recorded in 1998, at “Sound City Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Nick Vincent.

Personnel:

  • Frank Black – vocals, guitar
  • Rich Gilbert – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • David McCaffery – bass, backing vocals
  • Scott Boutier – drums
  • Billy Joe Bowers – engineer
  • Nick Raskulinecz – engineer assistant
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering
  • Inertia – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Black

  1. Bad Harmony
  2. I Switched You
  3. Western Star
  4. Tiny Heart
  5. You’re Such a Wire
  6. I Love Your Brain
  7. Smoke Up
  8. Billy Radcliffe
  9. So Hard to Make Things Out
  10. 85 Weeks
  11. I Think I’m Starting to Lose It
  12. I Want Rock & Roll
  13. Skeleton Man
  14. So. Bay

Frank Black: Dog in the Sand

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On January 30, 2001, “Cooking Vinyl” and “What Are Records?” label released “Dog in the Sand”, the third Frank Black studio album. It was recorded March – April 2000, at “Sound City Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Nick Vincent.

Personnel:

  • Frank Black – vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar
  • Eric Drew Feldman – vocals, electric piano, piano, clavioline
  • Rich Gilbert – vocals, guitar, pedal steel guitar, dobro
  • Dave Phillips – vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar 
  • Joey Santiago – guitar
  • Moris Tepper – vocals, banjo, bihuela
  • David McCaffery – vocals, bass
  • Scott Boutier – drums
  • Nick Vincent – percussion
  • Billy Joe Bowers – recording
  • Mike Terry – engineer assistant
  • Eddy Schreyer – mastering
  • Andrew Swainson – design
  • Steve Gullick – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Black.

  1. Blast Off
  2. I’ve Seen Your Picture
  3. St. Francis Dam Disaster
  4. Robert Onion
  5. Stupid Me
  6. Bullet
  7. The Swimmer
  8. Hermaphroditos
  9. I’ll Be Blue
  10. Llano del Rio
  11. If It Takes All Night
  12. Dog in the Sand

Chris Cornel: Higher Truth

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On September 18, 2015, “UM” label released “Higher Truth”, the fourth and final Chris Cornell studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, and was produced by Brendan O’Brien.

Personnel:

  • Chris Cornell– vocals, guitar, bass, mandolin, percussion
  • Brendan O’Brien– guitar, bass, keyboards, hurdy-gurdy, drums, percussion, mixing
  • Patrick Warren – piano
  • Matt Chamberlain– drums
  • Anne Marie Simpson – strings
  • Billy Joe Bowers – engineer, mastering
  • Kyle Stevens, Tom Syrowski – engineer
  • Josh Graham – art direction
  • Suspended in Light – art direction
  • Jeff Lipsky– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Chris Cornell.

  1. Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
  2. Dead Wishes
  3. Worried Moon
  4. Before We Disappear
  5. Through the Window
  6. Josephine
  7. Murderer of Blue Skies
  8. Higher Truth
  9. Let Your Eyes Wander
  10. Only These Words
  11. Circling
  12. Our Time in Universe