Swede Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 These guys are definitely one of my favorite acts of today. Unfortunatly I missed them when they toured Scandinavia this summer. I highly recomend their latest record, New Seasons, which easily qualifies in my top five of records released 2007. They've got some serious chops goin' on! Check out their song "Tha Trial" on their myspace, it's a deadly song with some real nice guitars in it.. Of course, the rest of the songs are worth checking out too. http://www.myspace.com/thesadies If your near any of these places, check 'em out. I don't think you'll be sorry. 28 Nov 2008 20:00 - The Casbah Hamilton, Ontario 29 Nov 2008 20:00 - Call The Office London, Ontario 4 Dec 2008 20:00 - Schuba’s Chicago, Illinois 5 Dec 2008 20:00 - High Noon Saloon Madison, Wisconsin 6 Dec 2008 20:00 - 400 Bar Minneapolis, Minnesota 7 Dec 2008 20:00 - Oneida Casino Green Bay, Wisconsin 8 Dec 2008 20:00 - Oneida Casino Green Bay, Wisconsin 9 Dec 2008 20:00 - Oneida Casino Green Bay, Wisconsin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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danelectro Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Yeah great band, cool guitar sounds. I don't own any CD's but they pop up on my Pandora surf and spy music stations all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 1, 2008 Author Share Posted December 1, 2008 Good stuff. More people should take a listen to them because they're a really great band! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 'Tis a pretty good review at www.almusic.com of their latest album: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:anfwxzygld0e Review by Mark Deming It's almost disorienting to imagine that a band as good as the Sadies can still find room to improve each time they go into the studio, but Canada's greatest contribution to Americana since Blue Rodeo have been consistently topping themselves with each new album, and their sixth, New Seasons, is another triumph. It should come as no surprise that the Sadies are in superb instrumental form here and demonstrating an effortless mastery of a range of different sounds and styles; "What's Left Behind" is a superb evocation of the late-period Byrds with guitar work that would make Clarence White envious, "The Trial" is a deeply atmospheric Southern gothic tale with just the right degree of ominous atmosphere, "A Simple Aspiration" could pass for a lost Paisley Underground classic with its subtly psychedelic guitar figures, "The Land Between" is simply gorgeous folk-rock, and the opening bluegrass breakdown makes you wish these guys had let listeners hear more than 48 seconds of it. But for a band that used to prefer playing instrumentals over approaching the vocal mike, brothers Dallas Good and Travis Good have learned to sing nearly as well as they play guitar, and their harmonies add another layer of beauty and mystery to their music. The group's songwriting continues to impress, with the heartbroken "Sunset to Dawn" and "The Trial" sounding uncannily like lost country classics and the two-part "The Last Inquisition" showing they know how to write a good scary guitar figure for themselves. While ex-Jayhawk Gary Louris helped produce New Seasons, precious little of his influence is audible here; the Sadies have created a powerful and evocative sound on their previous albums, and with New Seasons they've given that sound its ideal definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Found this video of the song Anna Leigh on youtube, which is an amazing song. Don't ya just love that acoustic guitar solo, it's fuckin' beautiful!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Found this video of the song Anna Leigh on youtube, which is an amazing song. Don't ya just love that acoustic guitar solo, it's fuckin' beautiful!! Gorgeous song Swede! I'll definitely have to check them out when I've got some time. I've vaguely heard of them but nothing really specific. Thanks for the recommend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Gorgeous song Swede! I'll definitely have to check them out when I've got some time. I've vaguely heard of them but nothing really specific. Thanks for the recommend It was Jahfin who turned me into them (THANKS!!), and I bougth New Seasons the same week it was released. It was the best new release of 2007, in my opinion. The album is packed with both beautiful, haunting songs and real rock'n'roll songs that blow your mind. Really great! I am going to order the vinyl too, it's one of these albums that I need both on CD and vinyl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninelives Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 It was Jahfin who turned me into them (THANKS!!), and I bougth New Seasons the same week it was released. It was the best new release of 2007, in my opinion. The album is packed with both beautiful, haunting songs and real rock'n'roll songs that blow your mind. Really great! I am going to order the vinyl too, it's one of these albums that I need both on CD and vinyl. Cool - thanks to Jahfin also then! I think this will definitely be on my list of purchases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock N' Rollin' Man Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Here's a review from allmusic.com of their new album Darker Circles. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0zfqxztsldte~T1 2007's New Seasons captured the Sadies at the top of their game in the studio, with Jayhawks guitarist Gary Louris at the controls as producer; it was the best studio effort yet from a consistently fine group, and for 2010's Darker Circles, the Sadies brought Louris back to help them work their magic. Maybe lightning isn't supposed to strike twice in the same place, but Darker Circles comes close enough to thrill anyone who enjoys the Sadies, and if this doesn't absolutely top its immediate predecessor, one can easily debate the relative merits of the two the way Beatles fans go back and forth on the brilliance of Rubber Soul and Revolver. True to its title, Darker Circles does have a deeper tone than New Seasons, which speaks of a vague, elegant sense of dread; the echoes of ill fate on "Another Year Again," the ineffable sadness of "Cut Corners," and the approaching thunder of "Another Day Again" kick off this album in gloriously uneasy fashion, and the guitars of Travis and Dallas Good make bad vibes sound prettier and more artfully pleasurable than anyone else alive. The mood of the albums lightens a bit in the second half; "Postcards" is a righteous bit of Bakersfield-style country, and "10 More Songs" is an inspired pre-fab medley that leaps from buzzy psychedelia to pensive folk-rock to anthemic alt country, with several other stops along the way. But the old-timey acoustic stomp of "Choosing to Fly" is just moodiness pushed in another direction, and the solace of love in the Byrdsian "Violet and Jeffrey Lee" proves to be unfortunately short-lived. The Sadies take us to a fallen world on Darker Circles, but it's never gloomy for its own sake, and even at its most baleful, this music is written and performed with too much life and too much inspired beauty to sound genuinely doom-struck. In the grand tradition of their Canadian forbearers the Poppy Family, the Sadies know how to make sadness so pretty it makes listeners feel good, and if you don't think such a paradox is possible, you clearly haven't heard Darker Circles yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock N' Rollin' Man Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I'm going to try and catch them when they hit L.A. on the 20th of November with John Doe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi_Zep_Fan87 Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I do like the album "Darker Circles". Some of the songs there are so emotional and beautiful! I got a clue yesterday that my mom maybe planning to get it for me for my 23rd birthday! Hopefully, I'm right! We'll see... This album reminds me so much of "The Beatles"!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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