John Doe and The Sadies join the Country Club

The collaboration between punk rock legend John Doe (X, The Knitters) and The Sadies started out as a typical drunken promise of making music together: One person suggests a musical collaboration. The others agrees. And then everyone forgets about it.

"These happen all the time," Doe said in a statement. "But it's rare that anyone remembers them the morning after, let alone follows through and makes it a reality."

In an atypical turn of events, the conversation stuck, and the guys actually followed through. The result is Country Club, an album chock full of country classics that glimmer with hints of 1960s Nashville pop and Bakersfield, Calif. electro honky tonk.

Country Club covers the likes of Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings but also boasts four original songs (three by The Sadies and one by Doe and his X songwriting partner Exene Cervenka).

Yep Roc Records will release the album on April 14.

Tracklisting:

1. Stop the World and Let Me Off

2. Husbands and Wives

3. 'Til I Get It Right
4. It Just Dawned on Me

5. Now and Then THere's a Fool Such as I

6. The Night Life
7. The Sudbury Nickel

8. Before I Wake

9. I Still Miss Someone

10. The Cold Hard Facts of Life
11. Take These Chains from My Heart

12. Help Me Make It Through the Night

13. Are the Good Times Really Over for Good

14. Detroit City

15. Pink Mountain Rag

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By CountryST on May 6, 2009

John Doe and The Sadies kicked off the U.S. part of their tour tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles opened for them. Be sure to check out a review of this show at www.CountryStandardTime.com.