| All Artists: Handsome Family Title: Singing Bones Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Carrot Top Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2003 Re-Release Date: 10/7/2003 Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Americana, Contemporary Folk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 789397003626 |
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 | Handsome Family Singing Bones Genres: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock 2003 album for husband & wife duo featuring 13 songs about Wal-Marts, lovers who chase the fire in the streetlights, the madness of very deep holes, a lake that can be visited in dreams, and the shadows that whisper... more » |
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Album Description 2003 album for husband & wife duo featuring 13 songs about Wal-Marts, lovers who chase the fire in the streetlights, the madness of very deep holes, a lake that can be visited in dreams, and the shadows that whisper inside a modern, office building. It is the Handsome Family's 6th CD with Carrot Top Records. Lyrics included in the sleeve. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsRennie Sparks is the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of alt-country S. Gustafson | New Albany, IN USA | 03/15/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "What else can I say? Her lyrics contrast visionary, sometimes somewhat morbid settings with closely observed, incongruous detail. My favourite narrative from this record is "Song of a Hundred Toads," in which a string of disasters --- Round a hairpin turn The wagon tumbled o'er And down the jagged rocks Bill fell with all I owned.--- leaves a man stranded in a desert, only as his final night falls to be greeted by the epiphany of the title: the song of a hundred toads. "The Bottomless Hole" strikes an H. P. Lovecraft note, but Lovecraft with a difference: it seems it's -useful- to have a bottomless pit behind your barn, even if you end up obsessed with the urge to explore it. Moving to New Mexico seems to have added some new, somewhat more upbeat "western" seeming rhythms and chord changes to Brett's music. There are occasional touches of Spanish guitars, and on one song even a trumpet. The musical saw on "24 Hour Store" is another instrumental highlight." Beautiful Suprise Andrew Johnstone | Morrinsville, New Zealand. | 11/03/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "I came across the Handsome Family by way of an interview on National Radio(Radio New Zealand). I pulled into the motel car park dead tired after driving for 16 long hours, yet remained sitting in the car mesmerised by the strange and evocative music pouring into the car from the rain sodden night. Once in the motel room I logged onto Amazon and purchased Singing Bones. The next morning I opened my eyes and watched the wardrobe sway around in a dreamlike fashion, much like the music I had heard the night before. Later on the news I discovered that I had experienced an earthquake. In the end it was my wife who claimed ownership of the CD, and she has played it constantly ever since and our 6yr old daughter knows the words to all the songs. What a great discovery, fresh pure music, greatly cherished by this family." Support this band! Andrew Johnstone | 03/14/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you like your country music with rousing, beautiful harmonies and a gothic edge, then look no further! This talented husband & wife duo record in their home in New Mexico and find the time to respond personally to their fans. Use your dollar to support their "cottage industry" ..."
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