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- Summary: The husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks return with their sixth CD of dark, country-tinged folk-rock.
- Record Label: Carrot Top
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alt-Country
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| Far From Any Road | |
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| From the dusty May sun her looming shadow grows Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote She twines her spines up slowly towards the boiling... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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UncutA beautiful record. [Nov 2003, p.122]
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Under The RadarBrett's arrangements are usually dead-on, emphasizing the acoustic guitar and vocals while accenting with an organ or singing saw. [#5, p.113]
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Q MagazineThis most recalls their masterful Through The Trees, only with pedal steel, banjo, bowed saw and some of their best harmony vocals yet. [Oct 2003, p.104]
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MojoA ghosts' convention set to music. [Nov 2003, p.130]
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MagnetA formidable, spooky album you can lose--or perhaps find--yourself in. [#61, p.97]
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The grim mood and countrified sound of Singing Bones doesn't differ dramatically from the past few Handsome Family albums.
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This is the band's most beautiful record, an expertly arranged blend of their acoustic old school country augmented by pedal steel guitar and bowed saws and sometimes colored by elements of mariachi, gospel, and rural folk.
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Mar 19, 2014
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