Scattered (album)

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Scattered
The Handsome Family album Scattered.png
Compilation album by
Released2010
Length63:36
Label Handsome Family Music
The Handsome Family chronology
Honey Moon
(2009)
Scattered
(2010)
Wilderness
(2013)

Scattered is a second compilation of demos, outtakes and rarities by the Handsome Family. It was released 2010 through Handsome Family Music and is the sequel to 2002's Smothered and Covered .

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Lost Soul" - 3:21
    • version of a traditional. This was used as the closing song of Episode 7 of the Netflix series The Gentlemen
  2. "When It Rains" - 2:25
  3. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" - 5:39
  4. "Snowball" - 2:16
    • song by The Handsome Family
  5. "Ain't No Grave" - 2:53
    • Brother Claude Ely cover
  6. "Little Buddy" - 3:56
    • an early track from 1993
  7. "Eleanor Rigby" - 2:45
  8. "A Plague Of Humans" - 3:01
    • song by The Handsome Family
  9. "Famous Blue Raincoat" - 5:07
  10. "Drinking Beer On The Roof" - 3:23
    • alternate take from "The Red Leaf Forest" (digital-only bonus track from Honey Moon )
  11. "Telephones And Telescopes" - 3:06
    • a song written by Brett Sparks
  12. "Lost Highway" - 2:59
  13. "Honcho" - 1:58
    • instrumental recorded by Brett Sparks on 4-track
  14. "The Blizzard" - 3:32
  15. "What Does The Deep Sea Say?" - 3:37
    • a version of the song by The Handsome Family (maybe a Bob Miller cover, maybe it's a traditional)
  16. "Tranqualized" - 2:56
    • a song written by Brett Sparks in 1996
  17. "June Bugs" - 3:36
    • alternate mix of the song released on Honey Moon
  18. "One Way Up" - 2:37
    • 4-track demo of the song released on Odessa
  19. "Claire Said" - 4:29
    • an early live recording of the song released on Odessa

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