Handsome Family - Singing Bones

NEW VINYL LP ON CARROT TOP 2014

180 GRAM VINYL

2003 release, the sixth studio album from the Alt-Country/Americana outfit. The Handsome Family were formed in 1993 by husband and wife duo Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks. The band, born and bred in Chicago before migrating to Albuquerque, play a unique blend of traditional Country, Bluegrass, and murder ballads. Rennie's lyrics have a strong storytelling component, drawing on themes from Gothic fiction, as well as American folk music, and often involving macabre subjects as murders, suicides and ghosts. The album features musical assistance from Darrel Sparks, Greg Hansen, David McChensey, Tony Watkins and Dave Gutierrez.

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Tracklist

1 The Forgotten Lake
2 Gail With The Golden Hair
3 24-Hour Store
4 The Bottomless Hole
5 Far From Any Road
6 If The World Should End In Fire
7 A Shadow Underneath
8 Dry Bones
9 Fallen Peaches
10 Whitehaven
11 Sleepy
12 The Song Of A Hundred Toads
13 If The World Should End In Ice