The Handsome Family
Rob Hughes, unpublished, 1999
OCTOBER 1999. On the release of early-years compilation Down In The Valley - and four months prior to fourth studio album, In The Air - Chicago hubby-and-wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks sit down to discuss life as Weird American Country's darkest new innovators.
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