Music and 'True Detective': A playlist of grim songs score HBO drama

Amid all the talk of HBO’s drama "True Detective," little has been written about the music, and the way it paints the Louisiana mystery a certain color of brown. From the opening theme, the Handsome Family’s “Far From Any Road,” to the end of each episode, the selections dot the hour with melodic comments, augmenting the drama with new layers of grit. It shouldn’t be surprising that the man behind the choices is T Bone Burnett, whose tastes are as deep as they are ubiquitous.    

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