Dog in the Sand, Frank Black's third album with backing group the Catholics was released by the Cooking Vinyl

Cooking Vinyl

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 record label

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 in 2001, and was produced by Nick Vincent

Nick Vincent

Nick Vincent is an American rock and roll, jazz, and studio drummer, producer and composer. Artists he has performed and/or recorded with include Frank Black, Donnie and Marie, Art Garfunkel, John Fogerty, Carole King, Jackie DeShannon, Ann-Margret, Hilary Duff, Hanson, Charlotte Hatherley, Ian...

. The album was generally met with favorable reviews. Though retaining the live-to-two-track method of recording of the previous two albums, this album found the band branching away from purely electric rock to incorporate acoustic guitar, pedal steel, and Rhodes Piano

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 and Wurlitzer organ into the sonic template.

The album was initially released by the What Are Records? label in 2001, and was reissued by SpinART in 2003.

Track listing

All songs written by Frank Black

Frank Black

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.

1. "Blast Off" – 7:13
2. "I've Seen Your Picture" – 2:51
3. "St. Francis Dam Disaster
   St. Francis Dam
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   " – 5:02
4. "Robert Onion
   Robert Zubrin
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   " – 4:00
5. "Stupid Me" – 2:31
6. "Bullet" – 3:53
7. "The Swimmer" – 2:48
8. "Hermaphroditos" – 4:12
9. "I'll Be Blue" – 3:34
10. "Llano del Rio
    Llano Del Rio
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    " – 4:14
11. "If It Takes All Night" – 3:19
12. "Dog in the Sand" – 3:48

2003 reissue bonus tracks:

• Robert Onion (Acoustic)
• Blast Off (Acoustic)
• Stupid Me (Acoustic)
• If It Takes All Night (Acoustic)

Personnel

• Frank Black
  Frank Black
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   – vocals, guitar
• Scott Boutier – drums, vocals
• Eric Drew Feldman
  Eric Drew Feldman
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   – keyboard, vocals
• Rich Gilbert – guitar, pedal steel guitar, keyboards, vocals
• David McCaffery – bass, vocals
• Dave Phillips
  Dave Phillips
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   – guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
• Joey Santiago
  Joey Santiago
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   – lead guitar
• Moris Tepper
  Moris Tepper
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   – guitar, banjo, bihuela
• Nick Vincent
  Nick Vincent
  Nick Vincent is an American rock and roll, jazz, and studio drummer, producer and composer. Artists he has performed and/or recorded with include Frank Black, Donnie and Marie, Art Garfunkel, John Fogerty, Carole King, Jackie DeShannon, Ann-Margret, Hilary Duff, Hanson, Charlotte Hatherley, Ian...
  
   – percussion
• Billy Bowers – recording engineer