Before "Kiss Me" made them a household name, Sixpence None the Richer were two kids from New Braunfels, Texas, guitarist and songwriter Matt Slocum and a teenage vocalist named Leigh Nash, quietly building something real. The Fatherless and the Widow, their 1993 debut, is where that sound first took shape: heartfelt, searching, and rooted in an alternative Christian rock tradition that was stretching what was sonically and lyrically possible.
This is the record that preceded everything. Five years before Squint Entertainment, Steve Taylor, and mainstream radio, Nash and Slocum were learning to write songs that were both deeply personal and universally felt. The Fatherless and the Widow documents that early flight: raw, sincere, and essential context for understanding one of the most distinctive voices in '90s alternative music.
This is the 2020 Retroactive Records reissue, remastered by Bombworks Sound / Rob Colwell and pressed on orange vinyl, the first time the album had ever appeared on vinyl. The run was limited to just 200 copies. Copies at this condition level are effectively gone from the open market.
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Limited to 3 individually numbered copies.
