from the latest Yep Roc e-mail update:

"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 movements within the country
music pantheon, Doe and The Sadies were able to cover their heroes
while filtering the pop sensibilities of 60s Nashville through the
electric honky tonk of Bakersfield, CA.

Doe remarks, "We're not sure why it sounds like it's from the
sixties. Maybe that's our favorite era of country music or maybe
that's what we listened to when we first learned how to play it. But
what was called 'Countrypolitan' always seemed one of the coolest
hybrids of country music. But we agreed quickly and completely that
there were going to be no string sections, horns or choirs.
Bakersfield vs. Nashville was never a dispute . . . Bakersfield!"
Dallas Good of The Sadies continues, "The songs chosen were very
ambitious, and while we haven't re-invented the wheel we have created
a cohesiveness between several hit country & western singles and our
own styles."

Despite the innovation of melding the sounds of Nashville and
Bakersfield, timeless sounds abound on Country Club. All of it driven
by Doe's singular 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.

On Country Club, classic tunes by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings
stand alongside late-night ballads by Tammy Wynette and Roger Miller.
The album also features four originals - three from The Sadies and
one courtesy of X songwriting duo John Doe and Exene Cervenka. John
Doe and The Sadies have found 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'.


Mark

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