Episode 12: “The Family That Handsomes Together"

"Far From Any Road" by The Handsome Family is the opening theme song for the first season of the HBO series True Detective.

Ringo Starr really really loves country music. I vaguely remember the first time I heard "Don't Pass Me By" off the White Album. As a little guy I inexplicably loved electric blues, but I could not get into its screeching-harpie of a cousin across the tracks. So the song was a bit of left field surprise, with the pounding drums and off-kilter, almost Cajun fiddle. I'd always thought of folk-based music as happily calcified and comfortingly predictable. But  ...