Singing Bones

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Singing Bones
Artist THE HANDSOME FAMILY album SINGING BONES.jpg
Studio album by
the Handsome Family
Released2003
Length38:36
Label Carrot Top / Loose Music
The Handsome Family chronology
Smothered and Covered
(2003)		Singing Bones
(2003)		 Last Days of Wonder
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 85/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [2]
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Tom Hull – on the Web B+ ( Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg Five Pointed Star Solid.svg ) [4]

Singing Bones is the sixth studio album by the Handsome Family. It was released in 2003 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe). It includes a cover of the folk song "Dry Bones", known from Bascom Lamar Lunsford's 1928 version on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music . In 2014, the album received a resurgence of interest when the song "Far from Any Road" was used as the theme song for the first season of HBO's crime drama True Detective .

Contents

Reception

The album was well received by critics: according to Metacritic, the album has received an average review score of 85/100, based on 8 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

"Far from Any Road"

Besides its appearance in True Detective, "Far from Any Road" was also used as an opening song for Guns N' Roses' 2014 world tour, and during the ending credits of the 2015 The Simpsons episode "Cue Detective".

"Far from Any Road" also charted on SNEP, the official French singles chart, in 2015, reaching number 61. [5]

It was covered on the Andrew Bird album Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… .

Jerry Williams and Anna Ternheim recorded a cover for Williams' Ghost Rider album.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Rennie Sparks, except for "Dry Bones"; all music is composed by Brett Sparks, except for "Dry Bones"

No.TitleLength
1."The Forgotten Lake"3:46
2."Gail with the Golden Hair"3:16
3."24-Hour Store"4:52
4."The Bottomless Hole"3:16
5."Far from Any Road"2:48
6."If the World Should End in Fire"1:09
7."A Shadow Underneath"3:44
8."Dry Bones"3:16
9."Fallen Peaches"2:59
10."Whitehaven"2:46
11."Sleepy"3:08
12."The Song of a Hundred Toads"2:28
13."If the World Should End in Ice"1:08
Total length:38:36

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "Wilderness Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  2. ↑ Plagenhoef, Scott (11 November 2003). "Singing Bones The Handsome Family". Pitchfork. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1637. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8 . Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  4. ↑ Hull, Tom (10 May 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "lescharts.com - The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road". lescharts.com.



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