Whispercasts

The Handsome Family (6 song sampler)

Here are two stories from my new book, "Wilderness". The entire book may be purchased at handsomefamily.com after 4/2013

Rennie Sparks reading from "Wilderness"

Skunks

Hollow

To the Oaks

Good Night

The King Of Everything

Invisible Man

Two Black Shoes

Mothballs

Shady Lake

The Oldest Water

Strawberry Moon

A series of podcasts by The Handsome Family's Rennie Sparks in which she discusses the writing their songs. Each podcast features a tarot card reading and an ASMR sound as well as thoughts behind the writing of a song. The first podcast is about the first song on our third record, "Through the Trees" entitled, "Weightless Again."

Whispercast_Episode 1—Weightless Again

Whispercast Episode 2. Rennie Sparks continues talking about songs from The Handsome Family's "Through the Trees". Episode 2 is about the song My Sister's Tiny Hands.

Whispercast Episode 2: My Sister's Tiny Hands

My Sister's Tiny Hands

"Stalled" from Through the Trees

In The Air

So Much Wine

Singing Bones

The Bottomless Hole

Last Days of Wonder

Beautiful William

The Handsome Family, "My Friend"

Rennie Sparks reading "Woodpecker"

Here are two stories from my new book, "Wilderness". The entire book may be purchased at handsomefamily.com after 4/2013 at 
http://www.handsomefamily.com/Nmerch.html

Rennie Sparks reading "Frogs"

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

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