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Down In The Valley (album)
''Down in the Valley'' is an Ireland-only compilation of songs by The Handsome Family. It was released 1999 by Independent Records. The subtitle of the compilation runs: "A treasury of their most willowy and haunted songs." The compilation contains tracks from '' Odessa'' (1994) (tracks 10 & 13), '' Milk and Scissors'' (1996) (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 14), and '' Through the Trees'' (1998) (tracks 2, 4, 6, 11, 12). Track listing #"Tin Foil" – 2:41 #"My Sister's Tiny Hands" – 3:28 #"Lake Geneva" – 3:14 #"Weightless Again" – 3:39 #"#1 Country Song" – 3:37 #"The Giant Of Illinois" – 3:06 #"Drunk By Noon" – 2:51 #"Don't be Scared" – 2:50 (a different version appears on ''In the Air IN, In or in may refer to: Places * India (country code IN) * Indiana, United States (postal code IN) * Ingolstadt, Germany (license plate code IN) * In, Russia, a town in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Businesses and organizations * Independ ...'') #"The House Carpenter" – 3:38 #"Arle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family is an American music duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and as of 2001 based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their song " Far from Any Road" from the album ''Singing Bones'', which was used as the main title theme for the first season of the 2014 crime drama ''True Detective''. The band's tenth album, '' Unseen'', was released on September 16, 2016, the first new release on the band's own label Milk & Scissors Music and through long-time label Loose in Europe. History Husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals) formed the band in 1993, along with drummer Mike Werner. The band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music. Guest musicians complete the band line-up for recordings and live work.Strong, Martin C. (2003) "The Handsome Family", in ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canonga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through The Trees
''Through the Trees'' is the third full-length album released by The Handsome Family, released in 1998 on Carrot Top Records/Loose Music. The album has received significant critical praise, and is considered one of the band's best works. Recording ''Through the Trees'' was written in the aftermath of Brett Sparks' mid-1990s hospitalization and diagnosis of bipolar disorder.Layne, Joslyn " The Handsome Family Biography, ''Allmusic'', Macrovision Corporation The closing song, "My Ghost", was inspired by Brett's experiences in the psychiatric unit. The album was recorded in a makeshift warehouse loft space in a run-down part of Chicago, using equipment lent to the band by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who was a friend and fan of their work. They had met each other through Tweedy's wife Sue Miller, owner of the Chicago club Lounge Ax. Rennie Sparks later told Folk Radio UK in an interview: "Jeff offered to let us borrow a bunch of gear he had but wasn’t using (an ADAT, a Mackie mixer, Lex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Air (The Handsome Family Album)
''In The Air'' is the fifth album released by American band The Handsome Family. It was released in 2000 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe) and comes as an enhanced audio CD with an additional video for the song "Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear," from '' Milk and Scissors'' (directed by Bill Ward). Los Angeles Times critic Randall Roberts praised the "tender urgency" and "morbid wit" of the song "So Much Wine”, calling it "a little pearl of destruction" and "the perfect introduction to the Family’s world." Track listing All music by Brett Sparks, all lyrics by Rennie Sparks. # "Don't Be Scared" – 2:39 # "The Sad Milkman" – 3:40 # "In The Air" – 3:30 # "A Beautiful Thing" – 3:39 # "So Much Wine" – 3:48 # "Up Falling Rock Hill" – 2:57 # "Poor, Poor Lenore" – 3:41 # "When That Helicopter Comes" – 2:32 # "Grandmother Waits For You" (inspired by "Where We'll Never Grow Old" as performed by The Smith Sacred Singers) – 3:50 # "Lie D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music
''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin. It is the "modern man's" equivalent of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music'', which Larkin describes in less than flattering terms.''The Times'', ''The Knowledge'', Christmas edition, 22 December 2007- 4 January 2008. It was described by ''The Times'' as "the standard against which all others must be judged". History of the encyclopedia Larkin believed that rock music and popular music were at least as significant historically as classical music, and as such, should be given definitive treatment and properly documented. ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' is the result. In 1989, Larkin sold his half of the publishing company Scorpion Books to finance his ambition to publish an encyclopedia of popular music. Aided by a team of initially 70 contributors, he set about compiling the data in a pre-internet age, "relying instead on information gleaned from music magazines, individual expertise a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hull – On The Web
Tom Hull is an American music critic, web designer, and former software developer. Hull began writing criticism for ''The Village Voice'' in the mid 1970s under the mentorship of its music editor Robert Christgau, but left the field to pursue a career in software design and engineering during the 1980s and 1990s, which earned him the majority of his life's income. In the 2000s, he returned to music reviewing and wrote a jazz column for ''The Village Voice'' in the manner of Christgau's "Consumer Guide", alongside contributions to ''Seattle Weekly'', ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'', NPR Music, and the webzine ''Static Multimedia''. Hull's jazz-focused database and blog ''Tom Hull – on the Web'' hosts his reviews and information on albums he has surveyed, as well as writings on books, politics, and movies. It shares a functional, low-graphic design with Christgau's website, which Hull also created and maintains as its webmaster. Career In the mid 1970s, Hull accepted a job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odessa (The Handsome Family Album)
''Odessa'' is the first album by American band The Handsome Family. It was released 1994 by Carrot Top Records. Critical reception AllMusic wrote that "Brett Sparks' plain but resonant Midwestern twang gives the songs on ''Odessa'' the ring of common truth, and he and Rennie Sparks had already established themselves as writers to be reckoned with, conjuring a lyrical voice that sounds homey and terribly alienated at the same time." Greil Marcus called the album an effort to "transfer the fatalism of the old murder ballads into modern life." ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...'' wrote that "if ''Odessa'' has a fault, it’s lyrics that are sometimes too coyly knowing, tossing off pop cultural references to no real effect." Track listing # "Here's Hopi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milk And Scissors
''Milk and Scissors'' is the second album by American band The Handsome Family. It was released 1996 by Carrot Top Records, and by Scout Releases in the same year. Production The production of the album was interrupted by Brett's brief stay in a mental hospital. Critical reception The ''Chicago Tribune'' called ''Milk and Scissors'' "one of the finest albums of 1996." The ''Chicago Reader'' called it "wonderfully depressing." Track listing All music by Brett Sparks and all lyrics by Rennie Sparks, except as noted # "Lake Geneva" – 3:11 # "Winnebago Skeletons" – 4:13 # "Drunk By Noon" – 2:51 # "The House Carpenter" (traditional, arranged by The Handsome Family, inspired by Clarence Ashley's 1930 recording) – 3:36 # "The Dutch Boy" – 3:51 # "The King Who Wouldn't Smile" – 2:35 # "Emily Shore 1819-1839" – 4:34 # "3-Legged Dog" (Darrell Sparks)– 4:34 # "#1 Country Song" (Brett Sparks) – 3:35 # "Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear" - 3:13 # "Tin Foil" - 2:41 # "Pud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Handsome Family Albums
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