Singing Bones

Singing Bones
Singing Bones
Studio album by the Handsome Family
Released	2003
Length	38:36
Label	Carrot Top / Loose Music
The Handsome Family chronology

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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.