Handsome Family

by Praguefrank
SESSIONS
1990 [demo session] Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
00001 ONE WAY UP Scattered
1991 [demo session] Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
00002 HONCHO instr. Scattered
1993 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
001 LITTLE BUDDY Scattered
1994 Kingsize Sound Laboratories, Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family (Brett Sparks [vcl/gt/keyboards], Mike Werner [vcl/drums], Rennie Sparks [vcl], Mike Hagler [gt/piano], David Trumfio [ac gt/keyboards]
002 HERE'S HOPIN' Carrot Top 0005
003 ARLENE Carrot Top 0005 VJCD-110
004 PONY Carrot Top 0005
005 ONE WAY UP Carrot Top 0005
006 WATER INTO WINE Carrot Top 0005
007 GIANT ANT Carrot Top 0005
008 EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE Carrot Top 0005
009 GORILLA Carrot Top 0005
010 THE LAST Carrot Top 0005 Smothered
011 CLAIRE SAID Carrot Top 0005
012 MOVING FURNITURE AROUND Carrot Top 0005 VJCD-110
013 BIG BAD WOLF Carrot Top 0005
014 SHE AWOKE WITH A JERK Carrot Top 0005
015 HAPPY HARVEST Carrot Top 0005
1996 Kingsize Sound Laboratories, Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family (Brett Sparks [vcl/gt/dobro/lap steel/harmonica/organ], Rennie Sparks [vcl/bass/drums], Mike Werner [gt/percussion], Darrell Sparks [vcl/gt/slide gt], Harry Trumfio [steel drum]. Michael Hagler [organ], Dave Trumfio [keyboards/bass], Mark Struzynski [sax])
016 LAKE GENEVA Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110
017 WINNEBAGO SKELETONS Carrot Top 0011
018 DRUNK BY NOON Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110
019 THE HOUSE CARPENTER Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110
020 THE DUTCH BOY Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110
021 THE KING WHO WOULDN'T SMILE Carrot Top 0011
022 EMILY SHORE 1819-1839 Carrot Top 0011
023 3-LEGGED DOG Carrot Top 0011
024 #1 COUNTRY SONG Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110 Smothered
025 AMELIA EARHART VS. THE DANCING BEAR Carrot Top 0011
026 TIN FOIL EP Scout/Carrot Top 0011 VJCD-110
027 PUDDIN' FINGERS Carrot Top 0011
028 THE BLIZZARD Carrot Top single/Scattered
029 TRANQUILIZED Scattered
1997 unknown – The Handsome Family
030 GRANDMOTHER WAITS FOR YOU EP Scout
031 BURY ME HERE EP Scout
032 BIRDS YOU CANNOT SEE EP Scout
033 BARBARA ALLEN EP Scout
034 CATHEDRALS EP Scout
1997 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
035 WEIGHTLESS AGAIN Carrot Top 0020 VJCD-110
036 MY SISTER'S TINY HANDS Carrot Top 0020 VJCD-110
037 STALLED Carrot Top 0020
038 WHERE THE BIRCH TREES LEAN Carrot Top 0020
039 CATHEDRALS Carrot Top 0020 VJCD-110
040 DOWN IN THE GROUND Carrot Top 0020 Smothered
041 THE GIANT OF ILLINOIS Carrot Top 0020 VJCD-110
042 DOWN IN THE VALLEY OF HOLLOWLOGS Carrot Top 0020
043 I FELL Carrot Top 0020
044 THE WOMAN DOWNSTAIRS Carrot Top 0020 VJCD-110
045 LAST NIGHT I WENT OUT WALKING Carrot Top 0020
046 BURY ME HERE Carrot Top 0020
047 MY GHOST Carrot Top 0020
btw 1994/1997 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
048 DON’T BE SCARED Loose Music VJCD-110 Carrot Top 0023
1997/1999 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
049 MY BEAUTIFUL BRIDE Magwheel single/ Carrot Top 0023
050 DON'T BE SCARED Carrot Top 0023
051 THE SAD MILKMAN Carrot Top 0023
052 IN THE AIR Carrot Top 0023
053 A BEAUTIFUL THING Carrot Top 0023
054 SO MUCH WINE Carrot Top 0023
055 UP FALLING ROCK HILL Carrot Top 0023
056 POOR, POOR LENORE Carrot Top 0023
057 WHEN THAT HELICOPTER COMES Carrot Top 0023
058 GRANDMOTHER WAITS FOR YOU Carrot Top 0023
059 LIE DOWN Carrot Top 0023
8 December 2000 [live] Schuba’s Tavern, Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
05901 AMELIA EARHART VS. THE DANCING BEAR DCN 1005
05902 THE GOOD TOOTHPICKS DCN 1005
05903 SO MUCH WINE DCN 1005
05904 THE CZAR BAR DCN 1005
05905 TIN FOIL DCN 1005
05906 A BEAUTIFUL THING DCN 1005
05907 VIENNA SAUSAGE HOTLINE DCN 1005
05908 THE GIANT OF ILLINOIS DCN 1005
05909 MY SISTER'S TINY HANDS DCN 1005
05910 NAMES FOR ALL HIS SHIRTS DCN 1005
05911 CATHEDRALS DCN 1005
05912 WEIGHTLESS AGAIN DCN 1005
05913 BONY BREAD DCN 1005
05914 WINNEBAGO SKELETONS DCN 1005
05915 DRUNK BY NOON DCN 1005
05916 MAGIC BALLS (INTRODUCTION) DCN 1005
05917 THE SAD MILKMAN DCN 1005
05918 MAGIC BALLS DCN 1005
05919 I KNOW YOU ARE THERE DCN 1005
05920 DOWN IN THE GROUND DCN 1005
05921 ARLENE DCN 1005
05922 MOVING FURNITURE AROUND DCN 1005
05923 FREEBIRD DCN 1005
05924 MY GHOST DCN 1005
05925 THE WOMAN DOWNSTAIRS DCN 1005
2001 Chicago, IL - The Handsome Family (Brett Sparks [vcl/gt], Rennie Sparks [vcl/ autoharp/keyboards/bck vcl])
060 THE SNOW WHITE DINER Carrot Top 0027
061 PASSENGER PIGEONS Carrot Top 0027
062 A DARK EYE Carrot Top 0027
063 THERE IS A SOUND Carrot Top 0027
064 ALL THE TVS IN TOWN Carrot Top 0027
065 GRAVITY Carrot Top 0027
066 COLD, COLD, COLD Carrot Top 0027
067 NO ONE FELL ASLEEP ALONE Carrot Top 0027
068 I KNOW YOU ARE THERE Carrot Top 0027
069 BIRDS YOU CANNOT SEE Carrot Top 0027
070 THE WHITE DOG Carrot Top 0027
071 SO LONG Carrot Top 0027
072 PEACE IN THE VALLEY ONCE AGAIN Carrot Top 0027
073 WHEN IT RAINS Scattered
2002 [sessions for Bottle Let Me Down] Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
074 SNOWBALL Blodshot 20078 Scattered
2002 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
075 THE LOST HIGHWAY Scattered
2003 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
076 THE FORGOTTEN LAKE Carrot Top 0036
077 GAIL WITH THE GOLDEN HAIR Carrot Top 0036
078 24 HOUR STORE Carrot Top 0036
079 THE BOTTOMLESS HOLE Carrot Top 0036
080 FAR FROM ANY ROAD Carrot Top 0036
081 IF THE WORLD SHOULD END IN FIRE Carrot Top 0036
082 A SHADOW UNDERNEATH Carrot Top 0036
083 DRY BONES Carrot Top 0036
084 FALLEN PEACHES Carrot Top 0036
085 WHITEHAVEN Carrot Top 0036
086 SLEEPY Carrot Top 0036
087 THE SONG OF A HUNDRED TOADS Carrot Top 0036
088 IF THE WORLD SHOULD END IN ICE Carrot Top 0036
1994/2003 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
089 THERE'S A CITY Smothered
090 SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN Smothered
091 PREPARED PIANO #1 Smothered
092 CELLO #1 Smothered
093 TRAIL OF TIME Smothered
094 FARAWAY EYES Smothered
095 KNOXVILLE GIRL Smothered
096 PREPARED PIANO #2 Smothered
097 BANKS OF THE OHIO Smothered
098 CELLO #2 Smothered
099 NATALIE WOOD Smothered
100 PREPARED PIANO #3 Smothered
101 STUPID BELLS Smothered
102 THE WEINERMOBILE Smothered
2005 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
103 THE LOST SOUL Bloodshot 20112 Scattered
2006 Home Studio, Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family (Rennie Sparks [vcl/banjo/autoharp/ ukulele], David Gutierrez [gt], David Coulter [musical saw])
104 YOUR GREAT JOURNEY Carrot Top 0040
105 TESLA'S HOTEL ROOM Carrot Top 0040
106 THESE GOLDEN JEWELS Carrot Top 0040
107 AFTER WE SHOT THE GRIZZLY Carrot Top 0040
108 FLAPPING YOUR BROKEN WINGS Carrot Top 0040
109 BEAUTIFUL WILLIAM Carrot Top 0040
110 ALL THE TIME IN AIRPORTS Carrot Top 0040
111 WHITE LIGHTS Carrot Top 0040
112 BOWLING ALLEY BAR Carrot Top 0040
113 HUNTER GREEN Carrot Top 0040
114 OUR BLUE SKY Carrot Top 0040
115 SOMEWHERE ELSE TO BE Carrot Top 0040
2008 Home Studio, Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family (Dave Gutierrez [gt/steel], Stephen Dorocke [gt/lap steel/violin], Eric Johnson [banjo], Darrell Sparks/Jason Toth [drums])
116 LINGER, LET ME LINGER Carrot Top 0050
117 LITTLE SPARROWS Carrot Top 0050
118 MY FRIEND Carrot Top 0050
119 WHEN YOU WHISPERED Carrot Top 0050
120 THE LONELINESS OF MAGNETS Carrot Top 0050
121 JUNE BUGS Carrot Top 0050 [alt.] Scattered
122 A THOUSAND DIAMOND RINGS Carrot Top 0050
123 LOVE IS LIKE Carrot Top 0050
124 THE PETRIFIED FOREST Carrot Top 0050
125 WILD WOOD Carrot Top 0050
126 DARLING, MY DARLING Carrot Top 0050
127 THE WINDING CORN MAZE Carrot Top 0050
1994/2009 Chicago, IL – The Handsome Family
128 TELEPHONES AND TELESCOPES
129 JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES
130 AIN’T NO GRAVE
131 ELEANOR RIGBY
132 A PLAGUE OF HUMANS
133 FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT
134 DRINKING BEER ON THE ROOF
135 WHAT DOES THE DEEP SEA SAY?
tracks above issued on album Scattered


ALBUMS
Carrot Top 0005 Odessa: Here's Hopin';Arlene; Pony;One Way Up; Water into Wine; Giant Ant; Everything That Rises Must Converge; Gorilla; The Last; Claire Said; Moving Furniture Around; Big Bad Wolf; She Awoke with a Jerk; Happy Harvest – 09-01-95 (double, reissued in 1999 on Sub Rosa SR 1004)
Carrot Top 0011 Milk and Scissors: Lake Geneva;Winnebago Skeletons; Drunk by Noon; The House Carpenter; The Dutch Boy; The King Who Wouldn't Smile; Emily Shore 1819-1839; 3-Legged Dog; #1 Country Song; Amelia Earhart vs. The Dancing Bear; Tin Foil; Puddin' Fingers – 13-05-96
Invisible Hands ? [GER] Scout: Tin Foil [from Milk and Scissors]; Grandmother Waits For You [early version]; Bury Me Here [early version]; Birds You Cannot See [early version]; Barbara Allen; Cathedrals [early version] – 97 EP
Carrot Top 0020 Through the Trees: Weightless Again; My Sister's Tiny Hands; Stalled; Where the Birch Trees Lean; Cathedrals; Down in the Ground; The Giant of Illinois; Down in the Valley of HollowLogs; I Fell; The Woman Downstairs; Last Night I Went Out Walking; Bury Me Here; My Ghost - 26-01-98
Loose Music [IRL] VJCD 110 Down in the Valley: Tinfoil; My Sister's Tiny Hands; Lake Geneva; Weightless Again; #1 Country Song; The Giant Of Illinois; Drunk By Noon; Don't Be Scared; The House Carpenter; Arlene; The Woman Downstairs; Cathedrals; Moving Furniture Around; The Dutchboy - 25-10-99
Carrot Top 0023 In the Air: Don't Be Scared; The Sad Milkman; In the Air; A Beautiful Thing; So Much Wine; Up Falling Rock Hill; Poor, Poor Lenore; When That Helicopter Comes; Grandmother Waits for You; Lie Down; My Beautiful Bride - 00
Carrot Top 0027 Twilight: The Snow White Diner; Passenger Pigeons; A Dark Eye; There Is a Sound;All the TVs in Town; Gravity; Cold, Cold, Cold; No One Fell Asleep Alone; I Know You Are There; Birds You Cannot See; The White Dog; So Long; Peace in the Valley Once Again - 01
Digital Club Network 1005 Live at Schuba's Tavern: Amelia Earhart Vs. the Dancing Bear; The Good Toothpicks; So Much Wine; The Czar Bar; Tin Foil; A Beautiful Thing; Vienna Sausage Hotline; The Giant of Illinois; My Sister's Tiny Hands; Names for All His Shirts; Cathedrals; Weightless Again; Bony Bread; Winnebago Skeletons; Drunk By Noon; Magic Balls (Introduction); The Sad Milkman; Magic Balls; I Know You Are There; Down in the Ground; Arlene; Moving Furniture Around; Freebird; My Ghost; The Woman Downstairs – 09-07-02
Carrot Top 0036 Singing Bones: The Forgotten Lake; Gail With The Golden Hair; 24 Hour Store; The Bottomless Hole; Far From Any Road; If The World Should End In Fire; A Shadow Underneath; Dry Bones; Fallen Peaches; Whitehaven; Sleepy; The Song Of A Hundred Toads; If The World Should End In Ice - 03
Handsome Family no # Smothered and Covered: There's a City; Sunday Morning Coming Down; Prepared Piano #1; Down in the Ground; Cello #1; Trail of Time; Faraway Eyes; Knoxville Girl; Prepared Piano #2; The Last; Banks of the Ohio; Cello #2; Natalie Wood; #1 Country Song; Prepared Piano #3; Stupid Bells; The Weinermobile – 03
Carrot Top 0040 Last Days of Wonder: Your Great Journey; Tesla's Hotel Room; These Golden Jewels; After We Shot the Grizzly; Flapping Your Broken Wings; Beautiful William; All the Time in Airports; White Lights; Bowling Alley Bar; Hunter Green; Our Blue Sky; Somewhere Else to Be – 06
Carrot Top 0050 Honey Moon: Linger, Let Me Linger;Little Sparrows; My Friend; When You Whispered; The Loneliness of Magnets; June Bugs; A Thousand Diamond Rings; Love is Like; The Petrified Forest; Wild Wood; Darling, My Darling; The Winding Corn Maze – 14-04-09
Handsome Family Music ? Scattered: The Lost Soul; Wen it Rains; Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues; Snowball; Ain’t No Grave; Little Buddy; Eleanor Rigby; A Plague of Humans; Famous Blue Raincoat; Drinking Beer on the Roof; Telephones and Telescopes” originally released; The Lost Highway; Honcho; The Blizzard; What does the Deep Sea Say?; Tranquilize; June Bugs (alternate take); One Way Up (4-track demo) - 06-10 (outtakes and demos)


SINGLES
Carrot Top
Drunk by Noon / The Blizzard - 96
Magwheel (1999)
[Handsome Family:] My Beautiful Bride / [Sackville:] Destroy, Destroy- 99