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| Artist : John Doe And The Sadies |
| Album : Country Club |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Yep Roc |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Rock |
| Rip date : Mar-26-2009 |
| Store date : Apr-14-2009 |
| Size : 52,2 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Stop The World And Let Me Off 03:42 |
| 02 - Husbands And Wives 02:42 |
| 03 - Til I Get It Right 03:19 |
| 04 - It Just Dawned On Me 02:35 |
| 05 - A Fool Such As I 02:32 |
| 06 - Night Life 03:47 |
| 07 - The Sudbury Nickel 01:20 |
| 08 - Before I Wake 02:32 |
| 09 - I Still Miss Someone 02:20 |
| 10 - The Cold Hard Facts Of Life 03:04 |
| 11 - Take These Chains From My Heart 02:08 |
| 12 - Help Me Make It Through The Night 03:37 |
| 13 - Are The Good Times Really Over For Good 02:39 |
| 14 - Detroit City 02:56 |
| 15 - Pink Mountain Rag 00:54 |
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| 40:07 min |
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| Punk rock has produced few singers with the strength and chops of X's |
| John Doe, and the force and presence of his vocals (and songwriting) on |
| albums like Wild Gift and Under the Big Black Sun rank with the most |
| satisfying rock & roll of the 1980s. But on Doe's recordings with X's |
| acoustic incarnation, the Knitters, and on his debut solo album, Meet |
| John Doe, he showed he was every bit as gifted with country-influenced |
| material, and for years a handful of X fans has been patiently waiting |
| and wishing for Doe to cut a straight-ahead country album. It took a |
| while, but Doe has finally done it, and he's done it right; Country Club |
| is a collaboration with the great Canadian roots rock combo the Sadies |
| in which they interpret a handful of classic country sides in a style |
| that fuses the moody late-night atmosphere of Nashville's countrypolitan |
| era with the straightforward guitar-based sound of vintage Bakersfield |
| acts like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. As musicians, the Sadies are as |
| tight and as capable as anyone walking into a recording studio these |
| days, and their touch on these songs is all but flawless, fusing Prairie |
| soul with a high lonesome sweetness and a subtle but expressive sense of |
| aural adventure that turn their interpretations of "Night Life" and |
| "Till I Get It Right" into something truly special. And Doe's vocals are |
| a wonder; he never forces false melodrama or histrionics into these |
| performances, but uses his rich, roomy voice to explore the spaces |
| within these tunes with patience and a heart as big as all outdoors. |
| Most country fans have heard "Help Me Make It Through the Night," |
| "Detroit City," and "I Still Miss Someone" a few hundred times (at |
| least) from dozens of artists, but Doe makes the heartache in their |
| lyrics real and genuine, and few performers of the Nash Vegas era can |
| match the innate understanding of classic country weepers that Doe |
| reveals on this set. Doe and the Sadies contribute one new song each to |
| these sessions (the band also tosses in two brief instrumentals), and |
| "It Just Dawned on Me" and "Before I Wake" are good enough that you |
| wouldn't guess they weren't copyrighted in the 1960s if you didn't read |
| the credits. Plenty of rock singers have tried to honor the sound and |
| traditions of period honky tonk music over the years, but you'd be hard |
| -pressed to find one who sounds as ineffably right singing this stuff as |
| John Doe, and Country Club is a casual, no-frills masterpiece. |
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