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Guided By Voices: Tremblers And Goggles By Rank

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On July 1, 2022, “Guided by Voices, Inc.” label released “Tremblers and Goggles by Rank”, the 36th Guided by Voices studio album. It was recorded in 2022, at “Magic Door” in Montclair, New Jersey, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, cover art, layout
  • Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals
  • Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
  • Ray Ketchem – drums engineering
  • Jeff Powell – mastering
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering
  • Vince Williams – artwork
  • Joe Patterson – artwork

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Lizard on the Red Brick Wall
  2. Alex Bell
  3. Unproductive Funk
  4. Roosevelt’s Marching Band
  5. Goggles by Rank
  6. Cartoon Fashion (Bongo Lake)
  7. All Sick Again
  8. Bongo Lake
  9. Letter Man, Better Man
  10. Bring on the Fobs
  11. Boomerang
  12. . Focus on the Flock
  13. Puzzle Two
  14. Who Wants to Go Hunting

Guided By Voices: Crystal Nuns Cathedral

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On March 4, 2022, “Guided by Voices, Inc.” label released “Crystal Nuns Cathedral”, the 35th Guided by Voices studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, artwork, layout
  • Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals
  • Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals, strings arrangements
  • Mark Shue – bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kevin March – drums, backing vocals
  • Ray Ketchem – drums engineering
  • Travis Harrison – mixing
  • Jeff Powell – mastering (for vinyl) 
  • Jamal Ruhe – mastering
  • J. Colangelo – drums technician
  • Joe Patterson – layout, back cover treatment, photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Eye City
  2. Re-Develop
  3. Climbing a Ramp
  4. Never Mind the List
  5. Birds in the Pipe
  6. Come North Together
  7. Forced to Sea
  8. Huddled
  9. Excited Ones
  10. The Eyes of Your Doctor
  11. Mad River Man
  12. Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Guided by Voices: Zeppelin over China

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On February 1, 2019, “Rockathon” label released “Zeppelin over China”, the 27th Guided by Voices studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Magic Door” in New Jersey, “Serious Business Records” in New York City, “Stillwater Lodge” in Dayton, Ohio, and was produced by Travis Harrison.

Personnel:

  • Robert Pollard – vocals
  • Doug Gillard – guitar, horn arrangements
  • Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar
  • Mark Shue – bass guitar
  • Kevin March – drums
  • Travis Harrison – engineer, vocal engineer, mastering, mixing
  • Ray Ketchem – engineer
  • Joe Patterson – art administration, layout
  • Robert Pollard – art administration, layout
  • Vince Williams – art administration

Track listing:

All tracks by Robert Pollard.

  1. Good Morning Sir
  2. Step of the Wave
  3. Carapace
  4. Send in the Suicide Squad
  5. Blurring the Contacts
  6. Your Lights are Out
  7. Windshield Wiper Rex
  8. Holy Rhythm
  9. Jack Tell
  10. Bellicose Starling
  11. Wrong Turn On
  12. Charmless Peters
  13. The Rally Boys
  14. Think. Be a Man
  15. Jam Warsong
  16. You Own the Night
  17. Everything’s Thrilling
  18. Nice About You
  19. Einstein’s Angel
  20. The Hearing Department
  21. Question of the Test
  22. No Point

Frank Black: Fast Man Raider Man

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On June 20, 2006, “Back Porch” label released “Fast Man Raider Man”, the thirteen Frank Black album. It was recorded in 2000, in Nashville, Pasadena and Chicago, and was produced by Jon Tiven.

Personnel:

  • Frank Black- lead vocals, guitar, ukulele
  • Steve Cropper- guitar
  • Carol Kaye- guitar, bass guitar
  • Buddy Miller- guitar, mandoguitar, backing vocals
  • Rich Gilbert- pedal steel guitar
  • Duane Jarvis- guitar
  • Lyle Workman- guitar, arrangements
  • Reggie Young– guitar
  • Dave Phillips- pedal steel guitar
  • F. Sloan- piano, backing vocals
  • Al Kooper- organ
  • Ian McLagan- keyboards
  • Mark Jordan – keyboards
  • Spooner Oldham- keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jack Kidney- harmonica, tenor saxophone
  • Tom Petersson- bass guitar
  • Bob Babbitt- bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Marty Brown- bass guitar, backing and duet vocal
  • David Hood- bass guitar
  • Billy Block- drums, backing vocals
  • Steve Ferrone- drums
  • Levon Helm- drums, percussion
  • Jim Keltner- drums, percussion
  • Simon Kirke- drums, percussion
  • Akil Thompson- drums
  • Chester Thompson- drums
  • Jon Tiven- alto saxophone, guitar, percussion, piano, backing vocals
  • Wayne Jackson- trumpet, trombone, fluegelhorn
  • Violet Clark-Thompson- backing vocals
  • Jack Clement- dobro, backing vocals
  • Rick Duvall- backing vocals
  • James Griffin – backing vocals
  • Bobby Bare Jr.- backing vocals
  • Ellis Hooks- backing vocals
  • Billy Swan- backing vocals
  • Planet Swan- backing vocals
  • Sierra Swan- backing vocals
  • Brooks Watson- backing vocals
  • Lyle Workman – arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Frank Black, except where noted.

  1. If Your Poison Gets You
  2. Johnny Barleycorn
  3. Fast Man
  4. You Can’t Crucify Yourself
  5. Dirty Old Town – Ewan MacColl
  6. Wanderlust
  7. Seven Days
  8. Raider Man
  9. The End of the Summer – music adapted from Gabriel Fauré’s Sicilienne, Op. 78,
  10. Dog Sleep – co-written by Reid Paley
  11. When the Paint Grows Darker Still
  12. I’m Not Dead (I’m in Pittsburgh) – co-written by Reid Paley
  13. Golden Shore – co-written byReid Paley
  14. In the Time of My Ruin
  15. Down to You – co-written byReid Paley
  16. Highway to Lowdown
  17. Kiss My Ring
  18. My Terrible Ways
  19. Fitzgerald
  20. Elijah
  21. It’s Just Not Your Moment
  22. The Real El Rey
  23. Where the Wind Is Going
  24. Holland Town
  25. Sad Old World
  26. Don’t Cry That Way
  27. Fare Thee Well