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album:  Singing Bones
artist:   The Handsome Family
released: 2003-10-06
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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 in 2016. The band's 11th studio album Hollow, was released on September 8, 2023.

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Far From Any Road
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Far From Any Road - The Handsome Family
Posted 6 years ago by Steely_D:
Man, that Season 1 of True Detective was such an amazing thing. If you haven't, go watch it immediately. A great experience.
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Posted 7 years ago by JimboLD:
True Detective
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Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities:
dickthespic wrote:
Fortunatly I've been listening to this for years ,didn't need an American tv series to intoduce me to the Handsome Family.
Great song and a couple who have kept me company all these televisionless years.

 
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

Cool tune.
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Posted 10 years ago by mandolin:
...reminds me of nick cave and the bad seeds...
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Posted 9 years ago by jpeaton:
Radio Paradise is reading my mind...been watching True Detective S1, and this tune has been going around in my head all morning...Great song, great series, great title sequence!
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Posted 3 years ago by lewisv66:
Reminds me of "Summer Wine"
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Posted 4 years ago by govindk:
Steely_D wrote:
Man, that Season 1 of True Detective was such an amazing thing. If you haven't, go watch it immediately. A great experience.
 
Absolutely 
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Posted 2 years ago by marysclark:
Love the David Lynch-esque soundtrack vibe this delivers
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Posted 5 years ago by Nextf:
Time is a flat circle .
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Posted 10 years ago by Webfoot:
Proclivities wrote:

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

Cool tune.

 
That's hilarious!  {#Roflol}
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Posted 1 year ago by Manbird:
I love the shit out of this song and band.
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Posted 3 years ago by igotitmade2k:
Are we watching a David Lynch movie?
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Posted 3 years ago by cloudymcloudface:
ok 3 depressing songs in a row, all we need next is Hurt sung by Johnny Cash. Careful with that axe, Eugene 😬
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Posted 4 years ago by fredriley:
Nicely macabre :o)
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Posted 4 years ago by DippingSauce:
I actually saw these two + their band in Rotterdam a few years ago. It was very very very obvious that by now they really didn't like to play this song anymore but that they kind of hád to. There was some talk about selling their soul to HBO as well haha...

Great song nonetheless!
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Posted 4 years ago by jp33442:
jayhamiljr wrote:
Would love to hear more from this band in the rotation.  They have a mesmerizing sound. 
 

Oh god yes , this station has turned me onto so much wonderful music 
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Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2:
hayduke2 wrote:
kick-ass music, like a sarcastic spaghetti western theme played in an Indiana junk yard by wayward Nick Cave imitators; 8+

 
said that last year? still fits
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Posted 2 months ago by GingerandMe:
Woody and Matthew.. Season One. Fucking brilliant!!
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Posted 5 months ago by luka.pupic:
This song is like somebody's memory of a song, and the memory is fading.
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Posted 1 year ago by Aud:
 mandolin wrote:

...reminds me of nick cave and the bad seeds...


Reminds me of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood   Summer Wine-i think
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