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- Summary: The Sadies join up with John Doe to release their first album of country music together.
- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Alternative, Country
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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MojoThe Canadian quartet have long proved their sidemen chops, and sound as good on honky tonk, back-porchers or country ballads. [May 2009, p.101]
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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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UncutApr 6, 2012The Sadies are one of the finest backing bands around, and team up adroitly with John Doe to produce a cracking set of country classics. [May 2012, p.71]
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The result of all this is a tribute to country songs these artists love. But on close listen, these versions are less twangy, in voice and accompaniment than the originals.
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The Sadies have proved themselves master instrumentalists at country and twang, and a fluid backup band able to execute any genre. Doe, who co-fronted seminal L.A. punks X, on the other hand, has a voice you could charitably call serviceable. Whether this collaboration needed to happen is debatable.
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For the collaborative LP Country Club, Doe and the Goods take a fairly reverent approach, mixing just a few pastichey originals into a set of well-worn C&W covers.
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Under The RadarCountry Club is a bit too bland of a listen as a whole, with only a few rollicking instrumental Sadies originals to breakup the mostly low-key covers. [Spring 2009, p.78]
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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SteveSMay 9, 2009
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VaughnAMay 27, 2009
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