As with, Honeycomb, Frank Black's last CD, Fast Man Raider Man was recorded primarily in Nashville, Tennessee employing the all-star talents of some of the greatest session musicians in the business, including: Steve Cropper, Rich Gilbert, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner, Ian McLagen and Spooner Oldham.  This is a record that stands on pure musicianship alone.  And then there's the songs themselves:  This release contains some of the best compositions of a post-Pixies solo career that is well into its second decade.  But there's more.  Snugly nestled in the middle of the 27 tracks on this 2-Disc release are four songs co-written by the storied Brooklyn performer and former FIVE frontman, Reid Paley.  Included among these gems is the masterpiece of melancholy, "I'm Not Dead, I'm in Pittsburgh."  If there's a theme uniting the material on hand here, it's learning the lessons that life meets out as you roll on down the long haul of life.  These aren't hits for the kids, but rather finely aged tunes equally fit for looking forward and looking back.  This is a great CD to take on the road for that long summer drive, and we're willing to bet that once you get there you'll find yourself going back to the car to bring it in and listen to again. copacetic price