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The best of Pixies genius Black Francis aka Frank Black's prodigious solo output
I don’t throw around the term genius lightly. Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, before he was Black Francis or Frank Black, recorded demos at Gary Smith’s Apache Studios in Boston in March of 1987 at the age of 21 which included many of the songs that would end up on the Pixies first two albums. These demos were released as a double album in 2004 c…
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