''Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day'' is an album by
Frank Black and the Catholics
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies (band), Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Bl ...
, recorded in
2000
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. Because Black was not completely happy with the recording sessions, he decided against a commercial release. However, he did hand out several copies of the album at shows, which fans uploaded to the internet. Several tracks were later used as
B-side
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s or rerecorded for the albums ''
Devil's Workshop
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'' (2002), ''
Black Letter Days
''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 let ...
'' (2002) and ''
Honeycomb
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'' (2005).
[
In 2015, many (though not all) of the tracks were included on the '' Frank Black and the Catholics: The Complete Recordings'' ]box set
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Music
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.
Background
Frank Black told ''Magnet
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'' magazine in 2002: "We made a record that ended up on the Internet called ''Sunday Mill Valley Groove Day'', and it was just an OK session but in general it was not an album, so we didn’t release it as an album. I had a few copies of it in my pocket and I was on tour and a couple of super-excited kids who seemed like they deserved something special happened to be there and I said, "Here you go," and they posted it, like, the next day. I didn't ask my audience to buy it. It's a freebie, I'm not going to sell it."
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from frankblack.net.[
;Frank Black and the Catholics
*]Frank Black
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Fo ...
– vocals, guitar
*Rich Gilbert – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
*Eric Drew Feldman
Eric Drew Feldman (born April 16, 1955) is an American musician. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley ...
– piano, organ, electric piano, keyboards
*David McCaffery – bass, vocals
*Scott Boutier – drums
;Technical
*Eric Drew Feldman – producer
*Kevin Ink – recording engineer
References
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2000 albums
Black Francis albums
Unreleased albums