Release Date: 04 May 2015
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 7
Barcode: 0711297511024
Genres: Rock Hard Rock & Metal
Description
On March 23rd Frank Black And The Catholics release 'The Complete Recordings' Limted Edition Box Set' on Cooking Vinyl. The 7CD box features all of the bands 6 studio albums plus a bonus CD entitled 'True Blue', which is made up of recordings from the 'Black Letter Days' album sessions.
All six formally released albums (self-titled [1998], Pistolero [1999], Dog in the Sand [2001], Black Letter Days [2002], Devils Workshop [2002] & Show Me Your Tears [2003]) have been re-mastered from the original live 2-track and 1-track recordings. The release contains well over a hundred songs.
True Blue is a disc of technical demos that Ben Mumphrey (who engineered all of the mobile recordings) found in his New Orleans recording archive.
The box set will have the songs in alphabetical order as Black Francis AKA Frank Black explains the alphabetisation It feels like an approximation of randomness and its a way to randomise something, especially if its titles. he goes onto say... "by placing the songs this way we get away from the preciousness of LP's we put out and its more about the body of work, the good times that we had".
True Blue:
These Songs were recorded with the intention of being demos, to be sent to the Catholics band to learn before they travelled to Los Angeles to record the album 'Black Letter Days'.
Tracklisting
Cracker
Punk Rock Factory
Larkin Poe
The Darkness
June Tabor
Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan
The Orb
Ron Sexsmith
