Show Me Your Tears
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{{Infobox album
| name = Show Me Your Tears
| type = studio
| artist = Frank Black and the Catholics
| cover = Show Me Your Tears.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 8, 2003
| recorded =
| studio = Frank Black and the Catholics' mobile studio, Los Angeles, California
| genre = Alternative country
| length = 41:31
| label = {{hlist|Cooking Vinyl (UK)|SpinART (US)}}
| producer = {{hlist|Nick Vincent| Ben Mumphrey| Stan Ridgway|Frank Black and the Catholics}}
| chronology = Frank Black
| prev_title = Devil's Workshop
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = Frank Black Francis
| next_year = 2004
}}
{{Album ratings
| MC = 71/100{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/show-me-your-tears/frank-black-the-catholics |title=Show Me Your Tears by Frank Black & The Catholics|website= Metacritic |accessdate=July 8, 2017}}
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/show-me-your-tears-mw0000317389 |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |accessdate=5 September 2017 |work= Allmusic |last=Heather |first=Phares }}
| rev2 = Alternative Press
| rev2score = 6/10{{cite journal |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |date=November 2003 |journal= Alternative Press |page=108 }}
| rev3 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Omnibus Press |edition= 5th concise |year=2011 |last=Larkin |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}
| rev4 = Mojo
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite journal |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |date=September 2003 |journal= Mojo |page=113 }}
| rev5 = Pitchfork
| rev5score = 5.4/10{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/777-show-me-your-tears/ |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |date=23 September 2003 |accessdate=5 September 2017 |work= Pitchfork |last=Carr |first=Eric }}
| rev6 = Q
| rev6score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{cite journal |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |date=September 2003 |journal= Q |page=98 }}
| rev7 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wolk |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |chapter=Frank Black and the Catholics |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/74 74] }}
| rev8 = Stylus Magazine
| rev9 = Uncut
| rev10 = Under the Radar
| rev10Score = {{Rating|7|10}}{{cite journal |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |issue=4 |journal= Under the Radar |page=98 }}
}}
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,{{cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/blackfrank-showme-2495841841.html |title=Frank Black & The Catholics: Show Me Your Tears |date=8 October 2003|accessdate=10 July 2020 |work= PopMatters |last=Gilstrap |first=Andrew }} 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."{{cite web| work= Rock's Backpages | title=The Backpages Interview: Frank Black|first=Barney|last=Hoskyns | url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/the-backpages-interview-frank-black|date=July 2005}}{{subscription required|s}}
Track listing
All tracks written by Frank Black.
- "Nadine" – 3:05
- "Everything Is New" – 3:51
- "My Favorite Kiss" – 2:06
- "Jaina Blues" – 3:51
- "New House of the Pope" – 3:15
- "Horrible Day" – 3:37
- "Massif Centrale" – 4:52
- "When Will Happiness Find Me Again?" – 2:19
- "Goodbye Lorraine" – 2:37
- "This Old Heartache" – 3:27
- "The Snake" – 2:01
- "Coastline" – 1:57
- "Manitoba" – 4:33
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.{{cite AV media notes|others=Frank Black and the Catholics|title=Show Me Your Tears|year=2003|type=Liner notes|publisher=Cooking Vinyl / SpinART}}
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
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