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Frank Swart

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Frank Swart
Born (1961-09-05) September 5, 1961 (age 63)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)Musician, singer, songwriter, producer, engineer
InstrumentsVocals, bass, guitar
Years active2000-present
Associated actsSIMO, John Hiatt, Buddy Miller, Morphine, Patty Griffin, Norah Jones, The Pixies

Frank Swart (born September 5, 1961, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American musician, composer and producer. His main instrument is the electric bass. Swart is a founding member of the psychedelic electric blues rock band, SIMO along with guitarist/vocalist JD Simo and drummer Adam Abrashoff. He has recorded and toured with many artists including Norah Jones, on The Fall; The Indigo Girls, Patty Griffin, John Hiatt and Buddy Miller. Swart is also notable for being the recording engineer for the Pixies' first recordings.[1]

In 2017 Swart and his partner, publisher / producer Brian Brinkerhoff, launched Need To Know Music and Skunkworks Studios in Capitola, California, with the playfully sardonic credo: Hand made, artisanal, organic, small batch, CD's, vinyl & downloads made by and for music lovers. Since its inception they have recorded over a hundred artists including Cedric Burnside, Norah Jane Struthers, Eddie Spaghetti, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Guitar Shorty, Cash McCall, John Hammond, Malcolm Holcomb, Marc Ford, Greg Martin, Vieux Farke Toure, Farah Siraj, Bob Margolin, Charlie Hunter, Anne McCue, John Medeski, Scott Kempner, Duke Robillard, Eric McFadden, Todd Snider, Chris Cain, Duke Robillard, Greg Wright, Harvey Mandel, Pat Travers, Mickey Raphael, G Love, Mark Lettieri, Mr Sipp, Oz Noy, Reeves Gabrels, Stephen Dale Petit, Tommy Castro, Zac Harmon, Will Dailey & many many more.

Funkwrench Blues[edit]

Funkwrench has been Swart's handle since the late 1980s. In the early 2010s, Swart had an experimental jam band by the name Funkwrench with Kenny Vaughan (Marty Stuart, Lucinda Williams) and Adam Abrashoff (SIMO). This particular incarnation, Funkwrench Blues, is the brainchild of Swart & Brinkerhoff's. They decided to take Swart’s instrumental blues based compositions and recruit the heaviest “cats”, known and unknown, for guest appearances. Keeping it stripped down, raw, and bluesy, they recruited guitarist Rich Kirch of John Lee Hooker fame and a rotation of great drummers: Marcus David (Nick Gravenites), Alvino Bennett (Dave Mason), Willy Jordan (Elvin Bishop), and Deszon Claiborne (Robben Ford), to complete the rhythm section. Brinkerhoff made the perfect choice of the “Ambassador of Grunge”, Jack Endino, (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nando Reis) to mix the tracks, further enhancing the immediate feel and weighty sonics of the project. Swart and Brinkerhoff began releasing these tracks as singles on their Need To Know label in late 2017 as part of the Need To Know’s Badass Blues Instrumental Series.

Discography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Ben Sisario (2006). The Pixies Doolittle. Bloomsbury Continuum. ISBN 978-0826417749. Search this book on
  2. ↑ "The Essential Sonny Rhodes - Songs and Stories - CD". Needtoknowmusic.com. Retrieved 26 May 2018.

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