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Singing Bones (Import) (CD)

By: The Handsome Family

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Singing Bones (Import) (CD) Album By The Handsome Family
1   Forgotten Lake, The  
2   Gail With The Golden Hair  
3   24 Hour Store  
4   Bottomless Hole, The  
5   Far From Any Road  
6   If The World Should End In Fire  
7   Shadow Underneath, A  
8   Dry Bones  
9   Fallen Peaches  
10   Whitehaven  
11   Sleepy  
12   Song Of A Hundred Toads, The  
13   If The World Should End In Ice  
 

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Review

Q (10/03, p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A cross between Edgar Allen Poe and the Old Testament, this most recalls their masterful THROUGH THE TREES, only with pedal steel, banjo, bowed saw and some of their best harmony vocals yet..."
Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7) - Ranked #14 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003"
Uncut (11/03, p.122) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...SINGING BONES is a beautiful record. Brett's doleful Texan burr carries all the weight, heave and belly-scratch of centuries..."
Magnet (11/03, p.97) - "...SINGING BONES is a formidable, spooky album you can lose - or perhaps find - yourself in..."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, p.130) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...'Forgotten Lake' acts as an overture, setting the tone for wonderfully-rendered stories..."

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The Handsome Family: Brett Sparks (guitar, keyboards, bass instrument, drums); Dave Gutierrez (pedal steel guitar, mandolin); Greg Hansen (dobro); Darrell Sparks (banjo, violin, drums); Rennie Sparks (banjo, bass instrument); David McChesney (trumpet); Tony Watkins (bass instrument); Jimmy Pontzer (drums).
The Handsome Family's unique take on traditionalist country finds another fine platform on 2003's SINGING BONES. Husband and wife team Brett and Rennie Sparks explore dusty, melancholic territory--both musically and lyrically--by combining a taste for rootsy, old-school country (for which Brett's resonant baritone is perfectly suited) with literate, evocative, image-rich lyrics.
SINGING BONES finds all these qualities in place. Scenes and characters float through vividly drawn settings ("24-Hour Store;" "Whitehaven"), while the instrumentation, arrangements, and ambience conjure dark forests and backwoods ghosts. As old-world as the Handsome Family might seem, there is an incisive contemporary sensibility to everything from the gleaming production to the perfectly chosen words. SINGING BONES proves again how the group can stitch the gap between present and past seamlessly.

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The Handsome Family's unique take on traditionalist country finds another fine platform on 2003's SINGING BONES. Husband and wife team Brett and Rennie Sparks explore dusty, melancholic territory--both musically and lyrically--by combining a taste for rootsy, old-school country (for which Brett's resonant baritone is perfectly suited) with literate, evocative, image-rich lyrics. SINGING BONES finds all these qualities in place. Scenes and characters float through vividly drawn settings ("24-Hour Store;" "Whitehaven"), while the instrumentation, arrangements, and ambience conjure dark forests and backwoods ghosts. As old-world as the Handsome Family might seem, there is an incisive contemporary sensibility to everything from the gleaming production to the perfectly chosen words. SINGING BONES proves again how the group can stitch the gap between present and past seamlessly.

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