[2009-04-14] John Doe & The Sadies "Country Club" mostly YACA (Yep Roc)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:26 am

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In true honky tonk style, Country Club is the bastard child of a drunken promise. A post show hang-out between X & the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Both rock 'n' roll and country music are littered with the ghosts of broken promises, but this one was destined to become reality. Timeless sounds abound on Country Club, driven by Doe's gorgeously rough-hewn vocals, the dueling thousand pound chops of the guitar-wielding Good brothers and The Sadies' world class rhythm section of Mike Belitsky and Sean Dean. Here, the Countrypolitan sound of late 1960s Nashville is filtered through the telecaster-based honky tonk of Bakersfield, CA and the results are simply stunning. Classic tunes by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings stand alongside corkers by Tammy Wynette and Roger Miller, all of them getting unique treatments by Doe and The Sadies. The album also features four originals - three from The Sadies and one courtesy of the timeless pairing of John Doe and Exene Cervenka. On Country Club, John Doe and The Sadies find the perfect blend of the reverent and the experimental, resulting in a slightly psychedelic brew that just might pass for straight if you're not lookin'.

1. Stop The World And Let Me Off
2. Husbands And Wives
3. 'Till I Get It Right
4. It Just Dawned On Me
5. (Now And Then) There's A Fool Such As I
6. The Night Life
7. The Sudbury Nickel
8. Before I Wake
9. I Still Miss Someone
10. The Cold Hard Facts Of Life
11. Take These Chains From My Heart
12. Help Me Make It Through The Night
13. Are The Good Times Really Over For Good
14. Detroit City
15. Pink Mountain Rag

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TN1EFW/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:07 pm

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John Doe and The Sadies join the Country Club

The collaboration between punk rock legend John Doe (X, The Knitters) and The Sadies started out as a typical drunken promise of making music together: One person suggests a musical collaboration. The others agrees. And then everyone forgets about it.

"These happen all the time," Doe said in a statement. "But it's rare that anyone remembers them the morning after, let alone follows through and makes it a reality."

In an atypical turn of events, the conversation stuck, and the guys actually followed through. The result is Country Club, an album chock full of country classics that glimmer with hints of 1960s Nashville pop and Bakersfield, Calif. electro honky tonk.

Country Club covers the likes of Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings but also boasts four original songs (three by The Sadies and one by Doe and his X songwriting partner Exene Cervenka).

Yep Roc Records will release the album on April 14.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2 ... -albu.html

Hank · 01 Dec 2004

I saw The Sadies open for Blue Rodeo in '02. They very much seem to fit with where Doe has been of late.

Shempster · **Joined:** 31 May 2008 **Posts:** 4 **Location:** CA

Man, I'm glad I found this post since I was unaware of John's upcoming work with the Sadies. Can't wait for this one! :yay:

[2009-04-14] John Doe & The Sadies "Country Club" mostly YACA (Yep Roc)

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