Country Club
by John Doe & The Sadies
  • Record Label: Yep Roc
  • Release Date: Apr 14, 2009
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

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  1. VaughnA
    May 27, 2009
    5
    I was really looking forward to this album, hoping for another Knitters-style record, however, it rarely catches fire. Too faithful versions with not enough moxie from Doe or The Sadies. Go back to the original songs and skip this.
  2. SteveS
    May 9, 2009
    8
    John Doe's voice is so suited to these country standard that you gotta wonder why it took him so long to do it. And the Sadies make a terrific honky tonk back-up band.

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Uncut
    Apr 6, 2012
    80
    The 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]
  2. AllMusic
    80
    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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  3. NOW Magazine
    60
    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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