NEWS: Frank Black and the Catholics to release box set of complete recordings

Frank Black And The Catholics will release the complete recordings box set on March 23, 2015 on Cooking Vinyl. The 7 CD box features all of the band’s 6 studio albums plus a bonus CD titled 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], Devil’s Workshop [2002] and Show Me Your Tears [2003]) have been re-mastered from the original live 2-track and 1-track recordings. The release contains 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 legendary Pixie Black Francis (AKA Frank Black) explains the alphabetization. "It feels like an approximation of randomness and its a way to randomize something, especially if its titles.”  He goes onto say by placing the songs this way "we get away from the preciousness of LPs we put out and its more about the body of work, the good times that we had."

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