VINYL FORMAT. In true honky tonk style Country Club is the bastard child of a drunken promise. A post show hang-out between X and the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Timeless sounds abound on Country Club driven by Does 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. Classic tunes by Merle Haggard and   [ read more ]

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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 and the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Timeless sounds abound on Country Club driven by Does 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. Classic tunes by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings stand along   [ read more ]

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Country Club is the result of a drunken promise or threat I made to Travis & Dallas [Good, of The Sadies] the first night we played together in Toronto. These happen all the time but it's rare that anyone remembers them the morning after, let alone follows through and makes it a reality. I'm really glad we did,' chuckles X, Knitters and solo artist John Doe about the series of events that led to his new project with cosmic roots rockers The Sadies. By including varying yet equally beloved mo   [ read more ]

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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 and the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Timeless sounds abound on Country Club driven by Does 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. Classic tunes by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennin   [ read more ]

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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 bee   [ read more ]

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Since John Doe left active duty with X, he's released a series of solo albums that, in a variety of different ways, have drawn many listeners to the same conclusion -- he's still a superb singer and a strong songwriter, but there's just something missing from his work on his own, which lacks the force and resonance of his music with X. It isn't necessarily tied to the fact that he doesn't rock as hard, given how powerful his work was with X's acoustic side project, the Knitters, and it should   [ read more ]

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John Doe was without a record deal in 1997 when he started cutting some new material with Smokey Hormel on guitar, Joey Waronker on drums, and Pete Way serving as producer; Doe didn't have a particular project in mind when he began recording, but in 1998 five of the tunes he completed were released by Kill Rock Stars as an EP called For the Rest of Us. Eight years later, Doe has reissued the material in expanded form as For the Best of Us, with five unreleased tracks from the same   [ read more ]

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While there's no arguing that John Doe is a gifted songwriter and has one of the finest voices in the great state of California, since he made his solo debut with Meet John Doe in 1990 he seems to have been struggling to create a musical identity that's separate from his superb work with X. While it falls several notches short of his best work, A Year in the Wilderness suggests that he's finally been able to create an eclectic but emphatic persona that's all his own. While "The Golden State,"   [ read more ]

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