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Handsome Family Provide Theme Tune For New HBO Show

• 17th Jan 2014

HBO’s True Detective – Main Title Sequence from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

The Handsome Family have taken on the prestigious task of providing the theme song to HBO’s big new drama series, True Detective. Their 2003-released track, Far From Any Road, taken the album Singing Bones, was hand-picked for the role by Oscar-winning producer T Bone Burnett. Watch the True Detective opening credits here above

News of The Handsome Family’s key to world domination coincides with the announcement that the band will be visiting Europe in April & May, taking in shows in Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, UK & Ireland. The band described by Greil Marcus as “the Beatles of the folk world”, will be touring in support of their critically acclaimed 9th studio album, “Wilderness”.

Wild animals, tall tales, and folk-lore from American history populate Wilderness – the latest studio album from New Mexico’s Handsome Family. Recorded at home in Albuquerque and at the Wilco Loft in Chicago it’s a record that found husband & wife duo Brett & Rennie Sparks blending Appalachian holler, psych-rock and Tin Pan Alley inspired melodies to conjure up a world where David Attenborough meets David Lynch in a Honky-Tonk bar at midnight.

The Handsome Family have been feted by the likes of Ringo Starr and covered by artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Cerys Matthews, Christy Moore and Andrew Bird. In a career that spans twenty years they’ve toured the world in their own charmingly DIY fashion – one car, one hotel room, one stage…. night after night after night – and in that time they’ve performed as a duo, with a band and have had onstage collaborations with such folk-royalty as Eliza Carthy, country legend Charlie Louvin and indie-kings like Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker. In each and every instance they’ve more than held their own, thanks in the main to their songs – a series of unique and wondrous compositions that, as Jeff Tweedy once said, are the “product of two beautiful brains”.

UK and Ireland Dates 2014

05 May Belfast, Black Box
07 May Cork, Crane Lane Theatre
09 May Manchester, Deaf Institute
10 May Hebden Bridge, Trades Club
11 May Swansea, The Garage
12 May Brighton, Komedia
14 May London, 100 Club
16 May Newbury, Arlington Arts Centre