Show Me Your Tears

Show Me Your Tears
Studio album by Frank Black and the Catholics
Released	September 8, 2003
Studio	Frank Black and the Catholics' mobile studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Alternative country
Length	41:31
Label	Cooking Vinyl (UK) SpinART (US)
Producer	Nick Vincent Ben Mumphrey Stan Ridgway Frank Black and the Catholics
Frank Black chronology
Devil's Workshop (2002) Show Me Your Tears (2003) Frank Black Francis (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Alternative Press	6/10 [3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Mojo	[5]
Pitchfork	5.4/10 [6]
Q	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
Stylus Magazine	B [9]
Uncut	[10]
Under the Radar	[11]

Show Me Your Tears is the sixth and final studio album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. Released in September 2003 by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in the UK, ^[12] the album employs a wide range of guests, including piano and an arrangement by Van Dyke Parks on the final track, "Manitoba". Within months of the album's release, it was announced that Black would be participating in a Pixies reunion, and since that time, the Catholics have effectively been defunct.

Recording

Black said, "We’d been playing together a long time, ten years of hard touring and loading our own gear and not making a lotta money out of it, and we’re hittin’ the mid-life crisis. And they're all getting mad at me ‘cause I’m forcing them to record live to two-track for the umpteenth time." ^[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Frank Black.

1. "Nadine" – 3:05
2. "Everything Is New" – 3:51
3. "My Favorite Kiss" – 2:06
4. "Jaina Blues" – 3:51
5. "New House of the Pope" – 3:15
6. "Horrible Day" – 3:37
7. "Massif Centrale" – 4:52
8. "When Will Happiness Find Me Again?" – 2:19
9. "Goodbye Lorraine" – 2:37
10. "This Old Heartache" – 3:27
11. "The Snake" – 2:01
12. "Coastline" – 1:57
13. "Manitoba" – 4:33

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[14]

Frank Black and the Catholics

• Frank Black – vocals, guitar
• Scott Boutier – drums, bells
• Rich Gilbert – guitar, piano, pedal steel guitar, vocals
• David McCaffrey – bass, vocals
• David Philips – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals

Additional musicians

• Joey Santiago – guitar
• Keith Moliné – guitar
• Stan Ridgway – harmonica, melodica, banjo, percussion, vocals
• Eric Drew Feldman – organ
• Van Dyke Parks – piano, accordion
• Rob Laufer – piano, vocals
• Jack Kidney – saxophone, harmonica
• Andy J. Perkins – trumpet
• Cynthia Haagens – vocals
• Eric Potter – vocals
• Jean Black – vocals
• Pietra Wexstun – vocals

Technical

• Nick Vincent – producer (tracks 1, 2, 5–8, 11)
• Stan Ridgway – producer (tracks 3, 9, 10, 12, 13), cover and booklet photos
• Ben Mumphrey – producer (track 4), engineer
• Frank Black and the Catholics – producer (track 4)
• Miles Wilson – assistant engineer
• Paul Figueroa – assistant engineer
• Phillip Broussard – assistant engineer
• Eddy Schreyer – mastering
• Jean Black – cover design
• Mark Husmann – band photos

References

1. "Show Me Your Tears by Frank Black & The Catholics". Metacritic . Retrieved July 8, 2017.
2. Heather, Phares. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Allmusic . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
3. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Alternative Press : 108. November 2003.
4. Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8.
5. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Mojo : 113. September 2003.
6. Carr, Eric (September 23, 2003). "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
7. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Q : 98. September 2003.
8. Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Frank Black and the Catholics". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp.  74. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
9. "Frank Black and the Catholics – Show Me Your Tears – Review – Stylus Magazine". July 9, 2007. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
10. "Frank Black And The Catholics – Show Me Your Tears – Review – Uncut.co.uk". May 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 19, 2011. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
11. "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". Under the Radar (4): 98.
12. Gilstrap, Andrew (October 8, 2003). "Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears". PopMatters . Retrieved July 10, 2020.
13. Hoskyns, Barney (July 2005). "The Backpages Interview: Frank Black". Rock's Backpages .(Subscription required.)
14. Show Me Your Tears (Liner notes). Frank Black and the Catholics. Cooking Vinyl / SpinART. 2003.