[DID NOT ATTEND: April 18, 2023] The Sadies / Carson McHone
I could clearly spend most of my time at Johnny Brenda’s, but somehow, I seem to blow off these show more than any others.
I’ve been aware of The Sadies for a pretty long time, although I’ve never really listened to them much. I kind of assumed they were a country band. Wikipedia describes them as a a Canadian rock and roll / country and western band.
They are quite beloved by other musicians (in and out of Canada) and just about everyone has sung guest vocals with them (their first three songs on Spotify feature Neko Case, Kurt Vile and Gord Downie). Just as I was becoming more familiar with them, their singer Dallas Good died suddenly. I assumed that that was the end for the band, but they have continued.
My brother-in-law saw them recently and said they were great. I would have liked to see them, but I had tickets to the Final Skinny Puppy show. So I wasn’t going to miss that.
Carson McHone is a singer-songwriter from Austin. In describing her music, Nashville Scene Magazine says “she’s a young country singer who expresses herself through the form while avoiding the formalism that etiolates the work of many country purists.”
I wouldn’t have specified her as country as much as these review do. She doesn’t have a twang, but I can see the connection to country. I like her anyway,
This would have been a good bill.
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