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Scattered (album)
''Scattered'' is a second compilation of demos, outtakes and rarities by The Handsome Family. It was released 2010 through Handsome Family Music and is the sequel to 2002's '' Smothered and Covered''. Track listing #"The Lost Soul" - 3:21 #*version of a traditional #"When It Rains" - 2:25 #*outtake from ''Twilight'' #"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" - 5:39 #*Bob Dylan cover #"Snowball" - 2:16 #*song by The Handsome Family #"Ain't No Grave" - 2:53 #*Brother Claude Ely cover #"Little Buddy" - 3:56 #*an early track from 1993 #"Eleanor Rigby" - 2:45 #*The Beatles cover #"A Plague Of Humans" - 3:01 #*song by The Handsome Family #"Famous Blue Raincoat" - 5:07 #*Leonard Cohen cover #"Drinking Beer On The Roof" - 3:23 #*alternate take from "The Red Leaf Forest" (digital-only bonus track from '' Honey Moon'') #"Telephones And Telescopes" - 3:06 #*a song written by Brett Sparks #"Lost Highway" - 2:59 #*Leon Payne cover #"Honcho" - 1:58 #*instrumental recorded by Brett Sparks on 4-track #" ... [...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] |
Honey Moon (The Handsome Family Album)
''Honey Moon'' is the eighth studio album released by The Handsome Family. It was released 2009 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe). Reception The album was well received by critics: according to Metacritic, the album has received an average review score of 75/100, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Track listing # "Linger, Let Me Linger" – 3:34 # "Little Sparrows" – 3:08 # "My Friend" – 4:56 # "When You Whispered" – 3:11 # "The Loneliness of Magnets" – 3:43 # "June Bugs" – 3:38 # "A Thousand Diamond Rings" – 3:40 # "Love Is Like" – 3:21 # "The Petrified Forest" – 4:11 # "Wild Wood" - 3:10 # "Darling, My Darling" - 3:39 # "The Winding Corn Maze" - 4:35 # "The Red Leaf Forest" - 3:25 #* Bonus track included on the digital version of the album sold through iTunes iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilderness (The Handsome Family Album)
''Wilderness'' is the ninth studio album by The Handsome Family. It was released in May 2013 by Carrot Top Records. ''Wilderness'' is an often surreal concept album about nature, with each song named after an animal. The album was released both as a single album and a box-set version that included a companion book of essays and art by Rennie Sparks. Reception The album was well received by critics: according to Metacritic, the album has received an average review score of 76/100, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." James Monger of AllMusic noted the album's Kafkaesque, dreamlike quality, praising the "remarkably affecting" song "Wildebeest," about the death of 19th-century songwriter Stephen Foster. A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn described ''Wilderness'' as "one of the strongest, most cohesive albums of their career", calling it "rootsy, literary country-rock that’s a little like a collaboration between Hank Williams and Edgar Allan Poe." He par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handsome Family Music
Handsome may refer to: *Physical attractiveness *Human physical appearance Music *Handsome (band), an American rock band Albums * ''Handsome'' (EP), 1989 EP by American band Tar * ''Handsome'' (Handsome album), 1997 * ''Handsome'' (Kilburn and the High-Roads album), 1975 Songs * "Handsome" (song), a 2015 song by The Vaccines *"Handsome", a 1991 song by Camouflage from ''Meanwhile'' *"Handsome", a 2008 song by Sky Larkin *"Handsome", a 2019 song by Chance the Rapper featuring Megan Thee Stallion from '' The Big Day'' *"Handsome", a 2020 song by Dave East from ''Karma 3'' Film *'' Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie'', 2017 *Rocky Handsome: a 2016 Hindi Movie People *Ara the Handsome, a legendary Armenian hero *Fernando I the Handsome (1345–1383), King of the Kingdom of Portugal *Geoffrey the Handsome or Geoffrey Plantagenet (1113–1151), Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, and father of King Henry II of England *Oleg I the Handsome (13th century), Prince of Ryazan (in present-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smothered And Covered
''Smothered and Covered'' is a collection of outtakes, demos and rarities by The Handsome Family. It was released in 2003 by Handsome Family Music. Track listing #"There's A City" - 3:12 #*outtake from ''In the Air'' #"Sunday Morning Coming Down" - 4:48 #*Kris Kristofferson cover #"Prepared Piano #1" - 1:29 #*acoustic piece played by Brett Sparks on a modified piano #"I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling" - 3:44 #*Bill Monroe cover #"Down In The Ground" - 2:30 #*4-track demo of the song released on '' Through the Trees'' #"Cello #1" - 1:00 #*acoustic piece played by Brett Sparks on cello #"Trail Of Time" - 3:12 #*Alton Delmore cover #"Far Away Eyes" - 4:26 #*Rolling Stones cover #"Knoxville Girl" - 4:03 #*version of a traditional #"Prepared Piano #2" - 1:04 #*acoustic piece played by Brett Sparks on a modified piano #"The Last" - 2:45 #*4-track demo of the song released on ''Odessa'' #"Banks Of The Ohio" - 3:26 #*version of a traditional #"Cello #2" - 1:15 #*acoustic piece played by Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight (The Handsome Family Album)
''Twilight'' is the sixth album released by The Handsome Family. It was released 2001 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music Loose is a British independent record label based in Ladbroke Grove, London. In 1998, Loose was formed from the vinyl only record label, Vinyl Junkie, which was set up in 1994 by Tom Bridgewater. Loose Music - About Since 1998, Loose has rele ... (Europe). Track listing # "The Snow White Diner" – 4:01 # "Passenger Pigeons" – 4:29 # "A Dark Eye" – 3:53 # "There Is A Sound" – 3:26 # "All The TVs In Town" – 3:05 # "Gravity" – 3:08 # "Cold, Cold, Cold" – 3:10 # "No One Fell Asleep Alone" – 2:48 # "I Know You Are There" – 3:40 # "Birds You Cannot See" - 2:53 # "The White Dog" - 3:36 # "So Long" - 3:31 # "Peace In The Valley Once Again" - 3:03 Personnelcf. Brett & Rennie Sparks (2001): Credits. In ''Twilight'' D booklet Chicago: Carrot Top Records. * The Handsome Family **Brett Sparks - wrote and played all music except as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which comprised mainly traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' the following year. The album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Many of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of counterculture of the 1960s, 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat music, beat and 1950s rock and roll, rock 'n' roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band also explored music styles ranging from folk music, folk and Music of India, Indian music to Psychedelic music, psychedelia and hard rock. As Recording practices of the Beatles, pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's Baby boomers, youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s, and did not begin a music career until 1967. His first album, ''Songs of Leonard Cohen'' (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: ''Songs from a Room'' (1969), ''Songs of Love and Hate'' (1971) and ''New Skin for the Old Ceremony'' (1974). His 1977 record '' Death of a Ladies' Man'', co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Payne
Leon Roger Payne (June 15, 1917 – September 11, 1969), "the Blind Balladeer", was an American country music singer and songwriter. Life He was born in Alba, Texas, United States. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight in the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935. He married Myrtie and they had two children together, as well as two children from Myrtie's previous marriage. Payne died at age 52 from a heart attack in 1969 in San Antonio, Texas. Myrtie died in San Antonio in 2008, and Leon's composition "I Love You Because" was played at her funeral service by pedal steel guitarist Emmett Roch, accompanied by musicians who were members of her church. Career Leon wrote hundreds of country songs in a prolific career that lasted from 1941 until his death. He is perhaps best known for his hits "I Love You Because", "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" and the 1948 song " Lost Highway", a song made famous by Hank W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlan Howard
Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. Career Howard was born on September 8, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on a farm in Michigan. As a child, he listened to the Grand Ole Opry radio show. In later years, Howard recalled the personal formative influence of country music: I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of country music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs… songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.Retrieved 2019-03-09. Howard completed only nine years of formal education, though he was an avid reader.‘ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Miller (musician)
Robert or Bob Miller may refer to: Business * Robert Hugh Miller (1826–1911), American publisher * Robert Warren Miller (born 1933), entrepreneur and developer of duty-free shopping * Robert Miller (businessman) (born 1943), Canadian businessman who founded Future Electronics * Robert G. Miller (born 1944), American businessman * Steve Miller (business) (Robert Steven Miller Jr.), American chief executive * Ben Lexcen (Robert Miller, 1936–1988), Australian yacht designer * Robert William Miller (1879–1958), founder of Australian coal mine and shipping company RW Miller Entertainment * Robert Miller (pianist) (1930–1981), American pianist and attorney * Robert Miller (bassist) (born 1951), American bassist and songwriter * Robert Miller (composer), American music composer * Robert Ellis Miller (1927–2017), American film director * Bob Miller and the Millermen, 1950s UK TV bandleader * Rob Miller (musician). an English musician and swordsmith * Bob Miller (composer, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
