| Singing Bones | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 2003 | |||
| Length | 38:36 | |||
| Label | Carrot Top / Loose Music | |||
| The Handsome Family chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Pitchfork | 7.4/10[2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [3] |
| Tom Hull – on the Web | B+ ( )[4] |
Singing Bones is the sixth studio album by the Handsome Family. It was released in 2003 by Carrot Top Records (North America) / Loose Music (Europe). It includes a cover of the folk song "Dry Bones", known from Bascom Lamar Lunsford's 1928 version on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. In 2014, the album received a resurgence of interest when the song "Far from Any Road" was used as the theme song for the first season of HBO's crime drama True Detective.
- ^ "Wilderness Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ Plagenhoef, Scott (11 November 2003). "Singing Bones The Handsome Family". Pitchfork. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1637. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ^ Hull, Tom (10 May 2021). "Music Week". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 13 May 2021.