Name: Back In My Day by The Handsome Family
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: "Unseen", release date September 16, 2016

Been listening to you guys for years, and you just get better and better. Love this!!

Just stunningly eery ... Looking forward to seeing you in Ireland

Linda Perry & Grace Slick - Knock Me Out

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

2 Meter Sessies, VARA Radio The Netherlands, recorded 21.03.1990

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Het Beste Van 2 Meter Sessies '87-'09)

Updated mix of the opening track of the second of three album projects in the works:

Swirling in the sun
Did you dream the starling again?
The many and the one
Soaring like a starling again
You hear the haunting sound, look around
Will you be the starling again?

Join the chorus, sing along
That murmuration song

You hear the cries
And you are a starling again
Ride the rhythm of the skies
Will you dance the starling again?

In a chorus, a symphony
A canticle

Oh I don't know why
You are so shy today
You don't know when
It will come again your way

The isolation fades
And you are a starling again
Down the desolation days
Fly like a starling again
The madness, the rage, turn the page
Oh you are a starling again

Join the chorus, sing along
That murmuration song

I don't know why
You try to hide away
Who can say when
It may come again your way?
Look to the skies
Starlings will rise today

Bass and backing vocals - Mark Hervey
Piano - Tim Lang

Image by Melody Hanson

Starlings

Lera Lynn - Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash Cover)

"Unseen", release date September 16, 2016

Back In My Day

Nick Cave - Suzanne (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Live From Australia : The Reformation Tour 2012

Psychopomp

Real Gone

Green Grass

Dead and Lovely

Vashti Bunyan - Train Song

Beth Hart-and-Joe Bonamassa-Seesaw

The Handsome Family’s greatest gift lies in its tremendous talent for painting vivid, sometimes terrifying pictures with every word— NPR

The Handsome Family’s absorbing vision of decay and entropy is quietly unsettling,and makes most other modern roots music seem like child’s play—MOTHER JONES

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice — GREIL MARCUS

As songwriters it’s the eerie, ancestral voice of ‘Anonymous’ they ultimately
resemble the most —CHICAGO READER

Through the Trees (1998)—10 essential Americana records of all time — MOJO
In the Air (2000) —One of the most important records of the 21st century — UNCUT
“Weightless Again”—100 best songs ever written about heartbreak— THE GUARDIAN, UK

Back In My Day

The Handsome Family

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