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Jan 13, 2014 · True Detective - Intro / Opening Song - Theme (The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road) + LYRICS. *** Cheap video-games: https://www.g2a.com/r/coldgold Excellent prices and bargains, good...
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Aug 14, 2015 · In a new interview with Billboard , True Detective music supervisor T Bone Burnett revealed the meaning behind using Leonard Cohen ‘s Popular Problems track “Nevermind” as Season Two’s opening...
True Detective Theme Lyrics Handsome Family – Far From Any Road Lyrics From the dusty mesa, Her looming shadow grows, Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote. She twines her spines up slowly, Towards the boiling sun, And when I touched her skin, My fingers ran with blood.
Jun 21, 2015 · As we know from last season, when music supervisor T Bone Burnett chose the Handsome Family’s dark, slinky “Far From Any Road” as the theme song, True Detective is the kind of show that...
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- "Far from Any Road" by The Handsome Family
- "Train Song" by Vashti Bunyan
- "A History of Bad Men" by The Melvins
- "Young Man Dead" by The Black Angels
- "Clear Spot" by Captain Beefheart
- "Kingdom of Heaven" by 13th Floor Elevators
- "Are You Alright" by Lucinda Williams
- "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)" by Grinderman
The song "Far From Any Road" by New Mexico-based Americana band and husband-and-wife duo the Handsome Family is now synonymous with True Detective's opening theme. It's not hard to hear why Burnett chose the twisted song — the band is known fortheir love of dark and violent imagery present in the lyrics of traditional folk murder ballads.
When Detective Hart gives his (spoiler alert!) mistress Lisa Tragnetti (Alexandra Daddario) a visit that reveals the nature of their relationship , Vashti Bunyan's tune "Train Song" plays in the background. The outsider folk artist, known as the "Godmother of Freak Folk,"failed to make it big when she was putting out her music in the 1970s. Today, ...
If you were wondering what coked-up, hardcore Louisiana bikers listen to, according to True Detective, the answer is the Melvins. The doom metal band formed in the early '80s and is known for their drone-y rock and wild-haired front-man King Buzzo. Their song "A History of Bad Men" from their 2006 album (A) Senile Animalappears fittingly in the sho...
Heard in the teaser that introduced True Detective, The Black Angel's "Young Man Dead" is bringing the Austin-based psyche band to HBO audiences. It's not the first time the band's music has been featured on soundtracks for movies and TV. Their songs have appeared in Californication, The Twilight Saga: Eclipseand even a History Channel documentary ...
Fans of the show will know that Detective Cohle is sort of a cynical fish-out-of-water in his Lousiana police unit, so it doesn't seem odd that Burnett would want to give Cohle a music taste that diverges from classic Southern rock. "He's not going to be listening to music about his truck, or music about how tight his jeans are, or music about how ...
Burnett's love of featuring country-meets-psychedelic music in True Detective is most evident in his inclusion of 13th Floor Elevators in the show. The Texas band is considered one of the first specifically "psychedelic rock" acts. What better music to soundtrack an episode titled "Seeing Things," in which Cohle literally doestrip on drugs, than wi...
Named America's best songwriter by TIME Magazine in 2002, Lucinda Williams has been making acclaimed country music since her first album Ramblin' On My Mindin 1979. Her song "Are You Alright" is used in an episode that highlights both the detrimental state of Cohle's drug addiction (and the stealing of the department's stash) and Hart's marital pro...
True Detective left audiences stunned with that now-famous six-minute, one-take shot of the raid at the end of the show's fourth episode. Burnett ended the suspenseful and technically impressive long-take with Grinderman's explosive, electric-guitar heavy track "Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)"from the band's debut, self-titled 2007 album. Fronted by...
Jan 14, 2019 · Esquire caught up with T Bone Burnett to discuss True Detective Season 3's incredible soundtrack (which includes a new song he wrote with Andrew Bird), unpack the meaning behind the...
Popular songs from the entire series. The Angry River (feat. Father John Misty & S. I. Istwa) Listen to Every Song from the True Detective TV Series and Soundtrack.
