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Frank Black is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Lyle Workman, Herman Brood, Jonathan Richman, Mike Watt and Ewan MacColl. Those roots explain a lot about how Frank Black arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Frank Black and the Catholics, Pixies, The Lemonheads, Throwing Muses and Stephen Malkmus, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Pete Yorn, Julian Plenti, Albert Hammond, Jr., Nikolai Fraiture and Stone Gossard, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 40 connections around Frank Black, reaching back through Lyle Workman and forward to Pete Yorn. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, known professionally as Black Francis and formerly Frank Black, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Pixies. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career releasing fifteen albums and forming his band, the Catholics. Pixies regrouped in 2004, and he declared his solo career to be over in 2013.
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Frank Black connections
Frank Black grew out of Lyle Workman, Herman Brood, Jonathan Richman and Mike Watt, shares an orbit with Frank Black and the Catholics, Pixies, The Lemonheads and Throwing Muses, went on to shape Pete Yorn, Julian Plenti, Albert Hammond, Jr. and Nikolai Fraiture. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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