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CDs



VINYL RECORDS



SHIRTS



BOOKS:
HANDSOME FAMILY SONGBOOK

“EVIL” --Rennie Sparks’ collection of stories

“AMPLIFIED” -- stories by alt.country musicians



ART:
Rennie Sparks’ PAINTINGS
POSTERS (Rennie’s artwork and two others)
POSTCARDS (8 cards printed with Rennie’s art)

 


Greg Hanson’s AMPS
 


 
 

Compact Discs...$15
 
ALL ORDERS:
Scroll down past CD choices to find links to mail order or Paypal (credit card) order on-line.
American shipping: $2 or $1.50 if you order multiple items
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European shipping: $5.50 or $5 if you order multiple items.
Australia/New Zealand/Asia shipping: $6 or $5.50 if you order multiple items.

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NEW CD! ON SALE NOW!

Also available in VINYL (with free digitial download)


 
“Honey Moon” (2009)
Tracks: 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

REVIEWS





"Last Days of Wonder" (2006)
Tracks: 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
Read Reviews of "Last Days..."

Singing Bones (2003)
Tracks: 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
 READ REVIEWS of "Singing Bones"

 
Twilight (2001)
Tracks: 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
(Read reviews of “Twilight”) 

In the Air (2000)
Tracks: 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
 (Read reviews of “In the Air”)

Through The Trees (1998)
Tracks: 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 Hollow Logs
I Fell, The Woman Downstairs, Last Night I Went out Walking, Bury Me Here, My Ghost
(Read reviews of “Through the Trees”)

Milk and Scissors (1996)
Tracks: 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
(Read reviews of “Milk and Scissors”)

 
Odessa (1995)
Tracks: 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
(Read reviews of “Odessa”)

13 rare recordings that never made it onto a Handsome Family CD including odd covers, intimate demos and orphaned songs. The CD contains several covers (Faraway Eyes, Banks of the Ohio, Knoxville Girl, Sunday Morning Coming Down, I Hear a Sweet Voice Calling, Trail of Time) as well as a few original songs (There's a City, Natalie Wood, Stupid Bells), some strange instrumental pieces involving cello, prepared piano, vocal harmony as well as early demos of some songs we've already released (#1 Country Song, The Last, Down in the Ground). Here's a review from "Uncut."

Besides the $20 Bear shirt below we also have:  TWO $15 SHIRT CHOICES

3-COLOR Bear Shirt--$20 (plus shipping)
The 3-color bear shirt pictured below features art by Rennie Sparks on a
high-quality ultra-soft fabric. Shirt color is army green.
Click on photo for close-up of art.
Sizes: Ladies' Small or Adult small, medium, large, X-large, XXL ($22)
 



FABRIC:
Shirts are an ultra-soft, stretchy cotton, pre-shrunk.

SIZES:
  w = width sleeve edge to sleeve edge
h = height from top of back collar to hem
Ladies' Small (23" h x 24" w)
Adult S (26.5" h x 31" w)
Adult M (28" h x  32.5" w)
Adult L (29" h x  34" w)
  Adult XL (31" h x  35" w)
Adult XXL (32" h x  36" w)

SHIPPING COSTS
USA: $3 or $2.50 if you order multiple items.
CANADA: $5 or $4.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries: $9 or $8.50 if you order multiple items.

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ONE-COLOR SHIRTS
$15
(S, M, L, XL)
 
OR
Adult XXL...$16
(XXL  only  in Octopus style)

CHOOSE: “octopus” or “girl with gun” style shirt (see photos below)
Scroll down past shirt descriptions to find links to mail-order or use Paypal / credit card to order on-line.

OCTOPUS SHIRT





GIRL WITH GUN SHIRT
 

NOTE: THESE SHIRTS ARE BEING DISCONTINUED SO...
GIRL WITH GUN SHIRT is only available in SMALL ( ONE LEFT!)
OCTOPUS SHIRT IS AVAILABLE IN ALL SIZES EXCEPT SMALL

SHIPPING COSTS
USA: $3 or $2.50 if you order multiple items.
CANADA: $5 or $4.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries: $9 or $8.50 if you order multiple items.

FABRIC:
Adult shirts are 100% pre-shrunk cotton which means they will
shrink a bit still when washed (about 10%) however the sizes are very roomy to begin with

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“The Handsome Family Songbook”



Musical notation for 21 of our songs (including chords, tabs, melody, lyrics)
$10(plus shipping)
SHIPPING COSTS:
American shipping: $3 or $2.50 if you order multiple items
Canadian shipping: $4 or $3.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries besides USA/CANADA: $9 or $8.50 if you order multiple items.

Songs included:
From our first CD, Odessa:  Arlene
From our second CD,  Milk and Scissors:  Drunk by Noon
From our third CD, Through the Trees:  Down in the Ground, My Sister’s Tiny Hands,  The Giant of Illinois, Weightless Again
From our fourth CD, In the Air:  Grandmother Waits for You, So Much Wine, The Sad Milkman
From our fifth CD, Twilight:  A Dark Eye, I Know You Are There, No One Fell Asleep Alone, Peace in the Valley Once Again
From our sixth CD, Singing Bones:  24 Hour Store, Forgotten Lake, The Bottomless Hole, Whitehaven
From our seventh CD, Last Days of Wonder: After We Shot the Grizzly, All the Time in Airports, Flapping Your Broken Wings, Tesla's Hotel Room    

CLICK ON FRONT-COVER ART BELOW TO SEE SOME SAMPLE PAGES..




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“Evil”
--Rennie's Book of Short Stories...$10(plus shipping)

Evil...

Sparks' writing, "balances emotive sincerity and detached black comedy with thrilling precision."
--The Sunday Times of London

"W.S. Burroughs meets Carson McCullers."
--Philadelphia City Paper

To read  more detailed reviews click HERE

American shipping: $3 or $2.50 if you order multiple items.
Canadian shipping: $4 or $3.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries besides USA/CANADA: $9 or $8.50 if you order multiple items.

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“AMPLIFIED” ....$10(plus shipping)
Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians



Edited by Julie Schaper and Steve Horwitz
Sixteen short stories by some of the most compelling songwriters performing today...
With original contributions from Mary Gauthier, Chris Smither, Maria McKee, Patty Larkin, Jim White, and Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family. NOTE: Rennie's contribution is an  excerpt from her novel-in-progress and has not been published anywhere else.

Whether it's Mary Gauthier's haunting story of a girl caught between her warring parents, Rennie Spark's reinvention of the fairy tale, a creepy yet beautifully drawn graphic story by Zak Sally or Cam King's wildly funny apocalyptic Texas tall tale that will make it difficult for the reader to ever think about armadillos the same way again, these stories will break your heart or make you guffaw inappropriately.

The same craftsmanship and narrative drive that these writers evince in their songs are on display in these stories. And who can resist a collection that starts with Maria McKee's opening line, "I had a mystical experience with Johnny Cash's pants...."?

For more information: amplifiedbook.com

American shipping: $3 or $2.50 if you order multiple items.
Canadian shipping: $4 or $3.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries besides USA/CANADA: $9 or $8.50 if you order multiple items.

TO ORDER:

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ALL NEW AMPS! MORE DETAILS! PRICES!
HERE ARE LOVELY GUITAR AMPS MADE BY OUR FRIEND GREG HANSEN

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POSTERS ...$10(plus shipping)
We have two styles of posters for sale. Scroll down to see them both.


“The Squirrel Who Stole the Sun”
Art by Rennie Sparks, hand screen-printed by Screwball Press.
Limited edition of 300. Each one signed and dated by Rennie.
Size: 12" x 18"



SCHUBA'S POSTER...
  We  have a very few copies of this very limited edition poster (only 85 made in total, each one signed by the artists). The poster was created from start to finish by Stacy Curtis and Dave Windisch (http://www.mile44.com) for a recent show we played in Chicago.
Size: 18" x 24"






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Now available!
Vinyl LP recording of "Honey Moon"
with free download link:
This vinyl record comes packaged with a card inside the sleeve
that contains a password and a link for a free digital download of the entire record.
If you want to receive your digital download immediately send me an e-mail with your order (handsomefamily@mindspring.com). I will open your copy of the LP before mailing it to you and
then send you an e-mail containing your individual password and link.
NOTE: This means that you'll receive your LP with the shrink wrap slit open so that I can access the card inside the sleeve.

Vinly LP credit card/pay pal orders        

Vinyl LP mail orders

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POSTCARDS...$10(plus shipping)
Package of 8 postcards. Each one features full color, glossy prints of Rennie's paintings on the front. The backs of the cards are formated like a normal postcard, but also include a cpation with Rennie's thoughts on each painting. Postcard dimensions: 4" x 6"

 
      
 
  

SHIPPING COSTS
USA: $1.50 or $1 if you order multiple items.
CANADA: $2 or $1.50 if you order multiple items.
All other countries: $4 or $3.50 if you order multiple items.

Buy postcards through credit card or pay pal 
       
Buy postcards by mail orders

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