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The Handsome Family
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The Handsome Family
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Released: May 12, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Country / Experimental / Folk

    Location Brighton, Un

    Profile Views: 92472

    Last Login: 10/2/2011

    Member Since 12/18/2005

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnNpbXBsZWZvbGtyYWRpby5jby51aw==

    Record Label independant

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Welcome to the archive of Simple Folk Radio... A weekly show presented by a small, rag-tag group of friends with a common love of musics with folk and country sensibilities. We take turns playing records, airing exclusive sessions and live recordings while attempting to join the whole with liberal helpings of hokum and questionable insight as we share our latest obsessions with one another. Between us all, you can expect to hear music and songs from foregrounds and the hinterlands of such scenes, non-scenes and spurious genres as alt-country, antifolk, appalachian, bluegrass, honky tonk, country rock, indie folk, Americana and the various nameless and formless backwoods hybrids which have traditionally graced the Simple Folk gramophone, all failing wonderfully to coalesce into a rich rustic radio stew. Since modest beginnings in 2005, we've been crafting Simple Folk Radio as a way to champion live music, to promote artists, 'outsider' or otherwise, who are in no danger of bothering the pop charts anytime soon, who you may never have stumbled across if a loved one hadn't ranted about their merits in the late snug of an alehouse, and then to float their art aloft upon the airwaves. With regard to that portfolio of sessions and live recordings which is already the stuff of legend, we have thus far been humbled by the input of such prestigious singers and players as Jeff and Jack Lewis, Great Lake Swimmers, Kimya Dawson, Charlie Parr, the Handsome Family, King Creosote, Akron/Family, Josh T Pearson, James Yorkston, Phosphorescent, Jana Hunter, Viking Moses, Stanley Brinks (aka Andre Herman Dune), Real Live Tigers, Okkervil River, Turner Cody, Eef Barzelay (aka Clem Snide), The Pictish Trail, Joe Gideon and the Shark and Mumford and Sons. Just to reel off a few. We'd like to invite you to listen because we've admired you from afar as someone who clearly appreciates that, in these end times of psychic armageddon and pop tart meltdown, there's primal joys and a perverse warmth to be had from gathering with like minds to enjoy stringed instruments and naked songs of lust, wonder, despair and Herculean drinking

  • Members

    produced by dillon ...................... presented by dillon and friends ...................... sound engineering for artist session's and live recordings by rob white of retribution recordings ...................... previous sound engineers have included stacey harvey, lewis shaw, nicol parkinson ...................... added support, in countless ways, given by radio reverb, shhh! promotions, put it on promotions, drifter promotions, melting vinyl, hotel pelirocco ......................

  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    we play music by.....herman dune, elliott smith, jeffrey 'lightning' lewis & jack 'laissez faire' Lewis, wilco, smog, willy mason, kimya dawson, the broken family band, daniel johnston, pip dylan, will oldham, viking moses, king creosote, m.ward, the carter family, chimp, david ivar herman dune, pictish trail, things in herds, lone pigeon, nick drake, jo foster, imaginary numbers, major matt mason usa, the silver jews, simon & garfunkle, adam green, unpoc, iron & wine, oil rig catering, sufjan stevens, lach, andre herman dune, the diamond family archive, brian piltin, gram parson, beck, the singing adams, dufus, richard & linda thompson, toby goodshank, the band, the moldy peaches, st thomas, mistys big adventure, patrick wolf, johnny cash, grandaddy, the callstore, strand of oaks, my morning jacket, tom waits, low low low lay lay lay love love love, okerville river, blanket, john smith, bob dylan, belle & sebastian, jose gonzalez, sparklehorse, neil young, schwervon, billy brag, the byrds, cat power, crosby stills & nash, danielson family, sun kill moon, the earlies, hank williams, my little problem, diane cluck, dolorean, double deuce, great lake swimmers, joie dead blond girlfriend, the red house painters, jesus licks, king and the olive fields, quarter-pounder, the bronsteins, chris maher, pheobe kreutz, lisa li-lund, neutral milk hotel, the great park, absentee, airsick antelope, andrew bird, bird engine, bright eyes, the carter family, gravenhurst, the handsome family, james yorkston, jerry reed, joan baez, jonathan richman, woody guthrie, joni mitchell, langhorn slim, the legendary shack shakers, leonard cohen, m-craft, micha p.hinson, pictish trail, scott appel, the wave pictures, akron/family, aliens, the velvet underground, flying burrito brothers, ya ya, kelly de martino, george thomas and the owls, palace brothers, bill callahan, jolie holland, merle watson & doc watson, roscoe holcomb, the sea will decide, shorline, turner cody, uni and her ukelele, emmylou harris,stanley brinks, g dale, world history, seven door hotel, luminous craft, clem snide, hms ginafore, josh t pearson, low, the mountain goats, n lannon, padma, real live tigers, p.g.six, 30lbs of bone, sons of noel and adrian, ansty pants, saint eskimo, r.g.morrison, phosphorescent, frida Hyvonen, Morgan Orion, Megan Johns, Islands, Dawn Landes, Jens lekman, june madrona, the babyskins, cheese on bread, devendra banhart, esiotrot, final fantasy, the holy modal rounders, hefner, camera obscura, the bundles, joanna newsom, matty pop chart, nico, vetiver, the purple organ, freshard, casiotone for the painfully alone, xiu xiu ................................................................................................................... local shows we recomend ...................................................................................................................

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    [for anyone who missed our prev. post] JEFFREY LEWIS plays his favourite records of all time, ready to play-on-demand http://t.co/bYn57dk2Fe

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    ready to play-on-demand, our show with special guest host JEFFREY LEWIS... http://t.co/SG8Ixr4BQH

  3. Simple Folk Radio

    This weeks show with special guest host @jefflewisband playing his favourite records of all time [please RT everyone] http://t.co/bYn57dk2Fe

  4. Simple Folk Radio

    I've loving this new album from @darrenhayman. Every listen has given me a new favorite song on it. http://t.co/bUJKcUH9eS

  5. Simple Folk Radio

    Can bands please stop trying to sounding like Mumford & Sons? Mumford & Sons have their sound down, you're not going to out Mumford them

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