The Handsome Family

Live Review: The Handsome Family, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich – 7th September 2022

September 16, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

The summer heatwaves may be over but there were still waves of heat in the Norwich Art Centre last week. Indeed the temperature was so high that Brett Sparks of The Handsome Family noted that it […]

Video: The Handsome Family “Gold”

August 19, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Sonically and lyrically, few band’s can match the atmospheric delivery of The Handsome Family. ‘Gold’ is the opening song from the 2016 album ‘Unseen’, the duo’s tenth studio recording. The sonorous quality, depth and range of […]

Small Venue Heroes: The Handsome Family

January 25, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

If there ever was a band that could be described as the essence of modern Americana, it is Chicago’s The Handsome Family. The husband and wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks, with an occasional cast […]

What should I do, Americana UK?

March 4, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s been a slightly longer pause than anticipated since the last attempt to answer all conundrums posed in a song through the words of another song. But here we are, back by the clamour of popular […]

Something for the weekend: The Handsome Family featuring Allen Ginsberg “Hiway Poesy Painted Desert to Albuquerque”

February 5, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for another week dear reader and we leave you for the weekend with a track from the new tribute album to Allen Ginsberg whose classic poetry collection “The Fall Of America: Poems Of These […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers