Black Letter Days

Studio album by Frank Black and the Catholics

Released

August 20, 2002

Recorded

Oct 2001-Jan 2002

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

65:16

Label

SpinART

Producer

Nick Vincent

Frank Black and the Catholics chronology

Dog in the Sand
(2001)

Black Letter Days
(2002)

Devil's Workshop
(2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Nude as the News	(7/10)^[2]
Pitchfork Media	(6.9)^[3]
Popmatters	(Positive)^[4]
Rolling Stone	^[5]
Uncut	^[6]
Robert Christgau	^[7]

Black Letter Days is the first of two albums by Frank Black and the Catholics simultaneously released in 2002 (along with Devil's Workshop). The title implies the opposite of the term "Red Letter Days" which are holidays — a "black letter day" being all the ordinary days in a given month.^[8]

Track listing

"The Black Rider" - 2:37
"California Bound" - 3:24
"Chip Away Boy" - 2:57
"Cold Heart of Stone" - 3:19
"Black Letter Day" - 3:26
"Valentine and Garuda" - 3:13
"How You Went So Far" - 4:05
"End of Miles" - 3:49
"1826" - 6:40
"The Farewell Bend" - 3:23
"Southbound Bevy" - 3:07
"I Will Run After You" - 3:58
"True Blue" - 1:49
"Jane the Queen of Love" - 5:10
"Jet Black River" - 1:51
"21 Reasons" - 5:40
"Whispering Weeds" - 3:39
"The Black Rider" - 3:09

Musicians

Frank Black: vocals, guitar
Scott Boutier: drums, vocals
Eric Drew Feldman: keyboard, synthesizer, vocals
Rich Gilbert: guitar, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, saxophone, vocals
David McCaffery: bass, vocals
Dave Phillips: guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals

additional personnel:

Moris Tepper: guitar, vocals
Nick Vincent: maracas
Ben Mumphrey: engineer

Notes and references

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Nude as the News review
↑ Pitchfork Media review
↑ Popmatters review
↑ Rolling Stone review
↑ Uncut review
↑ Frank Black and the Catholics
↑ "Features:Frank Black". Splendid. Retrieved 2007-03-25.

Black Francis (Frank Black)

Pixies

Studio albums	Surfer Rosa (1988) Doolittle (1989) Bossanova (1990) Trompe le Monde (1991) Indie Cindy (2014)

Extended plays	Come On Pilgrim (1987) Pixies (2002) EP1 (2013) EP2 (2014) EP3 (2014)

Compilations	Death to the Pixies (1997) Pixies at the BBC (1997) Complete 'B' Sides (2001) Wave of Mutilation: Best of Pixies (2004) Minotaur (2009)

Singles	"Gigantic" (1988) "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (1989) "Here Comes Your Man" (1989) "Velouria" (1990) "Dig for Fire" (1990) "Planet of Sound" (1991) "Alec Eiffel" (1992) "Head On" (1992) "Debaser" (1997) "Bam Thwok" (2004) "Bagboy" (2013)

As Frank Black

Studio albums	Frank Black (1993) Teenager of the Year (1994) The Cult of Ray (1996) Frank Black Francis (2004) Honeycomb (2005) Fast Man Raider Man (2006)

Compilations	Oddballs (2000) Christmass (2006) Frank Black 93–03 (2007)

Singles	"Los Angeles" (1993) "Hang On to Your Ego" (1993) "Headache" (1994) "Men in Black" (1995) "The Marsist" (1995) "I Don't Want to Hurt You" (1996)

As Frank Black and
the Catholics

Studio albums	Frank Black and the Catholics (1998) Pistolero (1999) Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day (2000, unreleased) Dog in the Sand (2001) Black Letter Days (2002) Devil's Workshop (2002) Show Me Your Tears (2003)

Compilations	One More Road for the Hit (2006) Snake Oil (2006)

Singles	"All My Ghosts" (1998) "I Gotta Move" (1999) "Robert Onion" (2000) "St. Francis Dam Disaster" (2001) "Everything Is New" (2003) "Nadine" (2003)

Members	Scott Boutier Rich Gilbert David McCaffery Dave Philips Lyle Workman

As Black Francis

Studio albums	Bluefinger (2007) Svn Fngrs (2008) The Golem (2010) NonStopErotik (2010) Paley & Francis (2011) (with Reid Paley)

Compilations	Abbabubba (2011)

Singles	"Threshold Apprehension" (2007)

Grand Duchy

Petits Fours (2009)
Lovesick (2009)
Let the People Speak (2012)

Discography

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