The Handsome Family

Play Radio

858,149 plays (71,440 listeners)

Shop now at Amazon | Send The Handsome Family Ringtones to Cell
More options
Add to my Library

United States

The Handsome Family are an duo from the United States, the couple Brett and Rennie Sparks who live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Brett writes the music while Rennie, who also is an author, writes the lyrics. Typical for the lyrics is a close connection to the literary genre American Gothic, and Gothic elements found in early and songs.

Their seventh CD, Last Days Of Wonder (June. 2006) was one of Mojo’s top ten American Albums for 2006 and called “an unqualified triumph” by Uncut. Of their sixth CD, Singing Bones, The UK’s Independent wrote, “Rarely, even in the fatalistic world of country music, has the precarious mystery of mortality been captured with such poetic grace as on Singing Bones.”

They have appeared in the movie, I’m Your Man (2005), a tribute to Leonard Cohen as well as Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2004). In 2004, a reader’s poll in Mojo named The Handsome Family’s third CD, Through the Trees one of the ten essential Americana records.

Last Days of Wonder is a collection of love songs sung in airports, garbage dumps, drive-thru windows and shark-infested waters. The CD celebrates the little miraculous moments of beauty found in everyday life: a golf course shining in the rain, hanging lights bouncing in the breeze, pigeons singing from billboards, trees blooming in squares of dirt.
Read more… Edit

Shouts: 69 shouts

Share this artist:

Top Albums

See more

Top Tracks

1
135
2
88
3
47
4
38
5
32
6
28
7
27
8  
24
9  
23
9
23
11  
22
12  
21
12
21
14
20
14
20
Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 69 shouts

Videos

See more

Events

See more Add event

News

sea monsters

17 Jan 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/thehandsomefamily

All good wishes to you, dear friends. Herein find a sampling of sea monsters sighted while kayaking around Handsome Family Lagoon as well as our latest tour dates and two of my paintings …

Add comment

See more

Listening Now

Top Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more

More Information

Links
Band Members
Labels