"Honeycomb" is Frank Black's first solo effortsince 1996's "The Cult of Ray". The Americana-flavored album was recorded at Dan Penn's Better Songs and Gardens studio in Nashville, TN over a four-day period in April, 2004, a few days before the Pixies kicked off their very first reunion tourdate.
"Honeycomb" features some of the mostcelebrated players in music: Steve Cropper, Buddy Miller and Reggie Young on guitars, drummers Chester Thompson, Anton Fig, Billy Block, and Akil Thompson, David Hood on bass, and Spooner Oldham on keyboards, among others.
"Honeycomb" was produced by Jon Tiven (Wilson Pickett, B.B.King, Robert Plant) who also worked with Black on his 1994 "Headache" EP. Black wrote all but three of the fourteen songs on"Honeycomb", the exceptions being covers of "Dark End of the Street" (Dan Penn & Chips Moman), "Song of the Shrimp" (Roy Bennett & Sid Tepper) from the Elvis Presley film "Girls, Girls Girls,") and "Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day" (Doug Sahm).