Interview: Brett and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family
Few alt-country bands have the haunted gravitas of The Handsome Family. On albums like Singing Bones, Through The Trees, In The Air, and Twilight, the Albuquerque-based husband-and-wife team of Brett and Rennie Sparks creates dark-humored songs that seem to conjure up the ghosts of old American folk music, with Brett’s deep baritone a perfect match for Rennie’s sardonic lyrics, which recall stories by Flannery O’Connor or Joyce Carol Oates. The duo is currently on tour with eccentric Southern writer and musician Jim White, who appears with them in the recent documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus. The A.V. Club caught up with the Sparks recently by phone.
Originally published on avclub.com Feb. 8, 2006. Read the complete article.
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Handsome Family, interview, music | Christopher Bahn | 
February 8, 2006 5:38 pm | 
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