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Emerald Isle

By Logan Rogers on July 10, 2013 in

An Irish landlady, after rummaging through her young tenant’s belongings, declares her love for him. It turns out she is not a landlady at all, but a jazz vocalist in a nightclub. She sings her song of longing and later complains to her manager about the wretched tour he has arranged for her. Joe presents […]

Work in Progress

By Logan Rogers on August 6, 2013 in

001 – The Entire Joe Frank Collection – Shows aired 1978 – 2002

By Logan Rogers on July 10, 2013 in

This is the complete Collection of Joe Frank programs produced for radio – and more! You’ll receive a total of 260 shows. The Collection includes unreleased material, original and revised shows called Remixes (original shows revised with changed music and/or content), plus a live show and Joe Frank Band Rehearsals. We also include several compilation […]

002 – Work in Progress – 1986 – 1992

By Logan Rogers on July 10, 2013 in

This Collection of 81 shows includes all shows produced and rebroadcast when this Series aired between 1986 and 1994. Save 20% off of the regular price – including 4 bonus shows! Order as a Digital Download (zip file), on a Thumb Drive, on DVDs, or on CDs. If you order the CD Collection you will […]

Reviews of Joe’s Work

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

The Washington Post

"Frank wanders deeply into the unconscious, producing Dionysian stories with a fairy-tale intensity whose effect is often funny, disturbing and deeply memorable."

Salon Magazine

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"Joe Frank's often bizarre scenarios for the mind are decidedly offbeat radio fare...part surreal satire, part bizarre meditation, part fever dream."

Los Angeles Daily News

"Radio's Prince of Darkness Rules the Freeways. [Frank is] alternately dark, bizarre and very funny - but always hard to turn off."

The Wall Street Journal

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times

"Joe Frank is an original whose work has helped form some of the most eccentric, dark and interesting parts of public radio's personality. "

Terry Gross, Fresh Air

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"A strange, different, wondrously offbeat, frequently hilarious, altogether brilliant piece of work..There's never been anything quite like it...Joe Frank is an audio Fellini."

The Los Angeles Times

"To me, he's what radio is really for... his show makes me think he's getting to some great truth... so completely captivating and just unlike anything else."

David Sedaris, writer