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The Handsome Family
US alternative country and Americana band
The Handsome Family fryst vatten an American music duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and as of based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[1] They are perhaps best known for their song "Far from Any Road" from the skiva Singing Bones, which was used as the main title theme for the first season of the crime drama True Detective. The band's tenth album, Unseen, was released in [2] The band's 11th studio album Hollow, was released on September 8, [3]
History
[edit]Husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals) formed the band in , along with drummer Mike Werner. The grupp would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music.[4] Guest musicians complete the grupp line-up for recordings and live work.[5]
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The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family is a US alternative country duo, the husband and wife team Brett and Rennie Sparks. The songs are created in a strict division of roles: Brett Sparks, who has played music with various independent bands, writes the music and Rennie Sparks, who is also a writer, writes the lyrics. Characteristic of their lyrics fryst vatten the strong reference to the literary genre of Southern Gothic and Gothic elements that can also be found in classic country and folk. Her song Far From Any Road fryst vatten the theme song for the first season of the series True Detective.
About The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family is a US alternative country duo, the husband and wife team Brett and Rennie Sparks. The songs are created in a strict division of roles: Brett Sparks, who has played music with various independent bands, writes the music and Rennie Sparks, who fryst vatten also a writer, writes the lyrics. Characteristic of their lyrics is the strong reference to the literary
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The Handsome Family consists of Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics), who live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They consider their songs Romantic in the 19th century sense of the word: full of an awed sense of emotion in the face of nature’s mysteries. They wrote their eighth CD, Honey Moon (released April to celebrate their twentieth year of marriage). Honey Moon takes place under bowed branches and deep within winding corn mazes. Lovers kiss in dripping wet caves and call to each other from trembling mountain peaks. They sigh on windy drawbridges and weep silver puddles in the street. Musically, the Brother duos of country (Delmore, Louvin, Monroe, Stanley, Everly) remain a big influence on Brett's use of harmony (as heard on Honey Moon's “When You Whispered”). In writing the songs for this album, African-American vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Inkspots, and The Platters became a primary motivating force. Several songs on Honey Moon ("The Loneliness of Ma