The Handsome Family

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Peter Tomkins

January 7, 2021 Clint West 1

A happy new year to everyone as we head into the home straight with our quest to identify the top 10 americana albums ever. Only a handful of writers remain to offer their suggestions before we […]

Ten environmentally-aware Americana songs

September 1, 2020 Rick Bayles 4

The importance of the diversity of our ecology, and of environmental sustainability, are constant watchwords these days and every news bulletin seems to bring another warning that we need to take better care of this planet […]

Video: The Handsome Family “Eels”

August 21, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

It’s retro-Friday, which means dipping into the archives to find something brilliant to start your weekend. This week, we turn to Americana legends The Handsome Family and their ninth studio album: 2013’s ‘Wilderness’. The married duo, […]

Handsome Family “Odessa” / “Milk and Scissors” (Loose, 2020)

April 27, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0

It seems 35 million people think that the Handsome Family created something special having been chosen to provide the first series of, ‘True Detective’, with its title song, ‘Far From Any Road‘. That’s the remarkable number […]

Handsome Family announce two reissues, UK dates

March 2, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

The Handsome Family are one of those bands who have been around for so long that you can’t imagine modern americana as a genre without them, Brett and Rennie Sparks being the masters of songs that […]

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