Devil's Workshop is the second of a pair of albums by Frank Black and the Catholics to be simultaneously released on August 20, 2002 (along with Black Letter Days

Black Letter Days

Black Letter Days is the first of two albums by Frank Black and the Catholics simultaneously released in 2002...

). 'His Kingly Cave' was originally recorded for an aborted album project in mid-2000 entitled Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day

Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day

Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day is an album by Frank Black & the Catholics, recorded in 2000. Because Black was not completely happy with the recording sessions, he decided against a commercial release...

. "Velvety"'s music comes from an earlier Pixies b-side, appropriately named "Velvety Instrumental Version". The track first received lyrics when it was revived for this album.

Track listing

All tracks by Frank Black

Frank Black

Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...

1. "Velvety" – 2:28
2. "Out of State" – 2:29
3. "His Kingly Cave" – 4:44
4. "San Antonio, TX" – 3:43
5. "Bartholomew" – 2:26
6. "Modern Age" – 2:55
7. "Are You Headed My Way?" – 2:03
8. "Heloise" – 3:42
9. "The Scene" – 2:29
10. "Whiskey in Your Shoes" – 3:06
11. "Fields of Marigold" – 3:05

Personnel

• Frank Black
  Frank Black
  Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...
  
   – vocals, guitar
• Scott Boutier – drums, vocals
• David McCaffery – bass, vocals
• Dave Philips – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals

Additional musicians

• Joey Santiago
  Joey Santiago
  Joey Santiago is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the lead guitarist for the American alternative rock band Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The...
  
   – guitar
• Lyle Workman
  Lyle Workman
  Lyle Workman is an American guitarist, composer, session musician and music producer. His music has been widely distributed since his debut on the eponymous Bourgeois Tagg album in 1986, and is currently best known for his work as composer and bandleader for the Superbad soundtrack.Workman is also...
  
   – guitar
• Moris Tepper
  Moris Tepper
  Moris Tepper, sometimes credited as Jeff Moris Tepper, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist.Tepper first came to prominence in the late 1970s with Captain Beefheart. He has also worked with singers Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, Robyn Hitchcock and Frank Black. He has recorded several solo...
  
   – guitar
• Rob Laufer – keyboards
• Eric Drew Feldman
  Eric Drew Feldman
  Eric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Fear, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Pixies, dEUS, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Tripping Daisy, Reid Paley, Charlotte Hatherley, Custard, and PJ Harvey.He was...
  
   – keyboards
• Stan Ridgway
  Stan Ridgway
  Stanard 'Stan' Ridgway is an American multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums and was the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo...
  
   – keyboards
• Ben Mumphrey
  Ben Mumphrey
  Ben Mumphrey is an audio engineer, record producer and musician.Some of his work credited as producer or co-producer includes the Frank Black albums Show Me Your Tears, 93-03 and Devil's Workshop, all released on Cooking Vinyl Records, , the 1998 album by released by Bong...
  
  – maracas