Milk & Scissors

Description: 1996 release, the sophomore album from the Alt-Country/Americana outfit. The Handsome Family were formed in 1993 by husband and wife duo Brett Sparks and Rennie Sparks along with drummer Mike Werner. The band, born and bred in Chicago before migrating to Albuquerque, play a unique blend of traditional Country, Bluegrass, and murder ballads. Rennie's lyrics have a strong storytelling component, drawing on themes from Gothic fiction, as well as American folk music, and often involving macabre subjects as murders, suicides and ghosts. On Milk & Scissors, The Handsome Family began their retreat away from the electric guitar base ... (more)

Manufacturer: Carrot Top Records
Release date: 13 May 1996
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0789397001127 UPC: 789397001127

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