About a month ago Jan and I had a marathon sitting of the mini series True Detective (great series and up there with The Wire, Breaking Bad, House of Cards and The Sopranos).Something nagged about the track on the opening credits. I eventually recognised it as Far From Any Road, an old track by the Husband and Wife duo The Handsome Family from their album Singing Bones.
I first came across The Handsome Family with their song Weightless Again on the Uncut Compilation "Songs of the New West" which I wrote about earlier. I picked Singing Bones up years ago from a second hand (probably stolen) CD stall in Soho in London.
Like Jim White whom I wrote about here The Handsome Family are frequently labelled as Gothic Americana - which really means that they sing a bit about death and and things that many people would not think of topics for songs.
Anyway I excavated the CD from the collection and it has been on high rotate ever since. Many do not rank this as one of their best works (for that look for Through The Trees and In the Air) but it is still a solid album - they seem to be a band that is not capable of recording a bad album.
Over the years the band has also contributed to a number of tribute albums and great cover versions of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and Sunday Morning Coming Down stand out.
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