• The move to the new server is done. There are some software and database maintenance updates in process. This has us passing the hat around to help out. We appreciate any donations. Seriously, even a dollar helps. The payment page may be found here - https://www.audiokarma.org/support.html

Handsome Family

opt80

opt80

Member
Subscriber
I have been on a Handsome Family kick.I have 3 of their cds and I just ordered two more.
Imagine a sing-a-long at the Sparks House.Let's see,Mary Gauthier,Johnny Dowd and Damien Jurado drops in with a Pizza, My kind of kitchen party.

For those of you who have never heard The Handsome Family,and like your music with pathos and depression,this couple are for you.Start with the cd*Singing Bones* and *Through The Trees* Don't buy the live album,may be overdose to a newbie.

Alan
 
Register to hide this ad
No way to stuff enough thumbs-up smilies in a single post :thmbsp:

Caution: start slow and work your way progressively into some of the best tunes you ever gonna hear. :yes:

Now as far as Johnny Dowd goes. Well, just don't say you weren't warned.

-dave
 
Because of your recommendation here,I downloaded "knoxville girl","arlene",and "the house carpenter".You are some SICK puppies! :thmbsp: :thmbsp: :thmbsp:
Jimmy
 
2DualsNotEnough said:
Because of your recommendation here,I downloaded "knoxville girl","arlene",and "the house carpenter".You are some SICK puppies! :thmbsp: :thmbsp: :thmbsp:
Jimmy
Click to expand...

You are correct, sir. Digest some of that mildly bizarre stuff for a bit, and we'll have you hooked in to Johnny Dowd in no time.........

:nutz: :wave:
 
tentoze said:
Brett and Rennie Sparks are both crazy as sh*t-house rats. Love 'em.
Click to expand...
Who knows what the winds gonna bring when the invalids sing
"La las" with a powerful sting thatll stop any opera or any Bing
Sing, spread the news across the land
All winners will be also-rans
Achoo-one size fits everyone
Achoo-one breath, the deed has been done

Grey hair and dash and flair give you doctor an air
I'm hurt, but the choise that you made is an obvious
one for a girl who needs care
I do hope that he makes you well
Say, is there any cure for Hell,
Achoo-one size fits everyone
Achoo-one breath, the deed has been done
Sing, ile de France and everywhere
You can't ignore that sort of air
Achoo-one size fits everyone
Achoo-one breath, the deed has been done

So, open wide, open wide and say, open wide and say goodbye, you'll be OK

Achoo-he's gonna whisk you away
Achoo-he's gonna make you OK
 
2DualsNotEnough said:
Because of your recommendation here,I downloaded "knoxville girl","arlene",and "the house carpenter".You are some SICK puppies! :thmbsp: :thmbsp: :thmbsp:
Jimmy
Click to expand...


Well done,2Duals,besides there evident penchant for the bizzaro, They sing pretty damn good

Once again I have to thank the equisite musical taste of Tentoze for bringing them to my attn.

A
 
Johnny's worried mind...

I woke up this morning
With a worried mind
My eyes were jerkin' round in my head
The sky was bleeding
The sun was black
The lilies of the valley were obscene

Twelve screaming birds
From a foreign land
Have come to memorize me
My head cracked
The birds flew in
My sins have come home to roost

Jumbalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo
Jody ran off with Yvonne, my ma cher aimee-oh
Take a tall drink from a jar, act so gay-o
The war is over
Johnny's Back
Back on the bayou

I fell from my bed
Put on my jungle boots
To the lunatic mirror I did crawl
A pale-eyed stranger
Was staring at me
I could almost recognize him

Won't you please forgive me
All the harm I've done
I was bent on violence when I was young
Beauty comes from violence
Beauty's all I crave
But you can't get a robin from an eagle's egg

Jumbalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo
Jody ran off with Yvonne, my ma cher aimee-oh
I take a tall drink from a jar, act so gay-o
The war is over
Johnny's Back
Back on the bayou
 
Hope I don't step on any toze here, but I downloaded a coupla Mary Gauthier tunes last week...

Mother Maybelle Carter meets Sylvia Plath.

My musical taste runs from Mozart to Depeche Mode, with lotsa jazz in the middle, but that was a walk thru a polio ward...

She does have a fairly good voice, however.
 
bOUddha said:
Hope I don't step on any toze here, but I downloaded a coupla Mary Gauthier tunes last week...

Mother Maybelle Carter meets Sylvia Plath.

My musical taste runs from Mozart to Depeche Mode, with lotsa jazz in the middle, but that was a walk thru a polio ward...

She does have a fairly good voice, however.
Click to expand...

Dunno about anybody else hanging in here, but I don't expect anyone to like everything I like, or any of it for that matter. If there's some common ground occasionally, that's okay. No need to worry about hurting my feelings.
 
Thanks for taking it in good humor...that really came across as harsher than I intended.

At least I tried it before I formed the opinion. (winky/thumbs-up)
 
Just got done listening to 'Live At Schubas Tavern'...

Its a good thing I have a cynical mind!!...sounds like it was fun to be there! :thmbsp:
 
Reel 2 Reel said:
Just got done listening to 'Live At Schubas Tavern'...

Its a good thing I have a cynical mind!!...sounds like it was fun to be there! :thmbsp:
Click to expand...

Hehe... Rennie is quite the toilet-tongue on that one, eh....the tales she relates, particularly about Bret- "Hey, I'm in the f*cking room, you know!"- when she talks about being able to tell what he's into by counting his pills, it's a pretty raw slice of their lives. Brett had a nervous breakdown in, I think, '96 or so, and was pretty incapacitated for over a year, as I understand it.
 
All I have is Singing Bones, but it's a fav. of mine. I need to look into more, but then again, I got a stack of unplayed stuff that will take me years to get through.

JD
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom