The Sadies

Thanks, hadn't heard of that one! (And yet I still get bombarded by this label re bands I don't care about: what the hell, Yeproc?)
Wrote this album review-as-show-preview when they were coming to Columbus OH in '09:

John Doe & The Sadies
John Doe (still with the reunited X) and The Sadies (colleagues of Neko Case) take a well-timed ride on Country Club ‘s honky tonk marriage-go-round of old school classics. These testimonies are more affecting for passing by a little faster (and funnier, as the Sadies punctuate git-through-it wit). The Sadies also carefully steer Doe across neon shadows, to truly see: “This ain’t no life. But it’s my life!” Another soul saved by (or for) the jukebox!
05/10 @ The Rumba, 2507 Summit St.
10 p.m.

best Sadies album: go!

Hmm, dunno, but I did just buy tickets to see them with Jon Langford and Sally Timms this summer.

They were great last night as a trio, first backing Langford and Simms, then on their own. I've long taken them for granted, but man, nothing better than garage-tinged country-rock saturated with spaghetti western and surf guitar twang.