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Brooklyn Vegan shares the new single/video from The Handsome Family, “Joseph,” along with the announcement of their 11th album, Hollow.

Folk duo The Handsome Family, whose song “Far from Any Road” soundtracked the main theme for season one of True Detective, are back with a new album, Hollow. It’s their eleventh LP, the follow up to 2016’s Unseen, and it’s due out on September 8. “We’re astonished to be breathing,” Rennie Sparks says, “let alone still be inspired to write songs and sing together. There’s been a lot of smashed coffee cups in our house over the years, but we’re still unable to resist the urge to make music.” She wrote all the lyrics on the album, and her husband Brett Sparks wrote and recorded all the music, and played most of the instruments. Dave Trumfio mastered, and you can see the tracklist below.

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NPR shares new single/video from The Handsome Family, “Joseph,” noting that “Husband-and-wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks contrast a foreboding, supernatural scene with the sweet simplicity of their piano-driven, waltz-like melody.”

Listen closely to The Handsome Family and it’s as if you have stepped into a strange, shimmering plane. With “Joseph” from the forthcoming album Hollow, husband-and-wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks contrast a foreboding, supernatural scene with the sweet simplicity of their piano-driven, waltz-like melody, complete with a straightforward yet emotive guitar solo.

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Americana Highways reviews Witness Trees, the new album from David G Smith, noting “Smith is adept at constructing likable songs.”

Convincing vocals layered in a late-career black-coffee Eric Andersen manner, with dashes of Tom Paxton. Lots of sincerity in many tunes & some are exceptional (“None of ‘Em Dead,” & “I Wanna Go Out”). Mr. Smith is sure-footed. Much seems to be more about not what’s to be done — but what’s in your conscience.

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Folk Radio UK debuts “Joseph,” the new single from The Handsome Family’s forthcoming LP, Hollow, noting, “It is a record lush with leaves and shadows, echoing with occult mystery.”

Brett writes the music, and Rennie writes the words. Their work has been covered by many artists, including Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird and most recently, Phoebe Bridgers. Their song “Far From Any Road” was the opening theme for HBO’s True Detective season one and still receives thousands of Shazams every week from all over the world.

They have just announced the release of their eleventh studio album, Hollow (out Sep. 8, 2023), an album that began with a scream in the night (more on below)…it delves into the natural world at the edges of the man-made. It is a record lush with leaves and shadows and echoing with occult mystery.

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Americana UK debuts the new single from Rick Hornyak, “Wait For the Night”

‘Wait for the Night’ is a classic rock song about living for the time when one is no longer at work, the joy of escape to do something that you actually want to do.  Austin based singer-songwriter Rick Hornyak knows of what he sings – he was playing guitar in his teens and writing songs, playing open mic’s but at the same time holding down an exhausting full-time job as a steelworker at a local factory owned by Trent Reznor’s grandfather.  

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