The Handsome Family

Masters of melancholy Americana, the Handsome Family make music that draws on country, folk, and acoustic blues traditions while blending the ingredients in a way that gives them a truly unique personality, with the sometimes-witty, often heartfelt sadness of the lyrics matched by the artful elegance of the arrangements. Led by the husband-and-wife team of Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks, the Handsome Family began as a rock group with an alt-country sensibility on 1995's Odessa, but by the time they released 1998's Through the Trees, they had adopted a more spare, rootsy sound ...