The Best Of Fading Captain Series

Crickets, a 50-track best of album featuring the master hits throughout Robert Pollard's music career, either as a solo artist or under his numerous monikers, or with his bandmates, better well-known ones including Guided By Voices and Circus Devils.

He's 50 years old now, and still rocking real hard with beers and his all-time instrument, the mike! He's been appearing solo for a couple of years and has released numerous albums and EPs, including two upcoming albums launch on the same date, October 9, 2007, entitled Coast to Coast Carpet of Love and Standard Gargoyle Decisions, both amounting to 30 over tracks of lo-fi rock n' roll shit!

We aren't gonna talk about these upcoming ones, but on this new Best of compilation that will soon hit the stores across the world, Crickets.

Acid Ranch. Airport 5. Circus Devils. Go Back Snowballs. Hazzard Hotrods. Howling Wolf Orchestra. Keene Brothers. Lexo and the Leapers. Lifeguards. The Moping Swans. Nightwalker. Phantom Tollbooth. Psycho and the Birds. The Takeovers. These are all under Pollard's efforts through Fading Captain Series, a self-financed and and released side project aside from Guided By Voices and his solo career.

In 2006 Paste Magazine, he has been listed 78th greatest living songwriter of all-time.