Dallas Good, singer, guitarist, and founding member of the Canadian garage-country-rock band the Sadies, died Thursday at the age of 48. His death was confirmed by Andrew Colvin, the Sadies’ longtime agent; no cause of death was given. As one of the lead singers of the Sadies, alongside his brother Travis Good, Dallas Good spent roughly 25 years releasing influential, critically revered records and touring as a member of the band.
“It’s with unfathomable sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Dallas on Thursday, February 17th,” the band wrote in a statement.
“It’s with unfathomable sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Dallas on Thursday, February 17th,” the band wrote in a statement.
- 2/18/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
After years of exploring tangled heartbreak, Jayhawks singer-songwriter Gary Louris has written the most straightforward love song of his career. “Follow,” the latest offering from the singer-songwriter’s upcoming solo album, began as a wedding gift for Louris’ niece and her husband.
“I wanted to give them something more than a nice place setting of china,” Louris tells Rolling Stone. “‘Follow’ has always been an unabashedly full-on love song. Nothing more, nothing less.”
“Home only where you are/won’t you take my arm and just follow?” Louris sings in his trademark roots-pop croon.
“I wanted to give them something more than a nice place setting of china,” Louris tells Rolling Stone. “‘Follow’ has always been an unabashedly full-on love song. Nothing more, nothing less.”
“Home only where you are/won’t you take my arm and just follow?” Louris sings in his trademark roots-pop croon.
- 5/6/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Gary Louris, “Almost Home”
The Jayhawks singer gears up for the June 5th release of his solo album Jump for Joy with this euphoric slice of jangle-pop. Structured around a handclap beat and a sprightly strummed acoustic,...
Gary Louris, “Almost Home”
The Jayhawks singer gears up for the June 5th release of his solo album Jump for Joy with this euphoric slice of jangle-pop. Structured around a handclap beat and a sprightly strummed acoustic,...
- 4/12/2021
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
This past February, the Jayhawks observed a band milestone — their 35th anniversary — in the way that any fan of the low-profile roots-rock group might expect them to celebrate a music industry achievement: by not acknowledging it all.
Despite making music together for as long as Jagger and Richards had been when the Rolling Stones released 1997’s Bridges to Babylon, the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, the two founding members still in the Minneapolis group, don’t get all that excited about their longevity. Louris, 65, and Perlman, 59, began their career-long...
Despite making music together for as long as Jagger and Richards had been when the Rolling Stones released 1997’s Bridges to Babylon, the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, the two founding members still in the Minneapolis group, don’t get all that excited about their longevity. Louris, 65, and Perlman, 59, began their career-long...
- 7/13/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The Jayhawks are out Tuesday with “This Forgotten Town,” the second track off the band’s forthcoming album Xoxo. They previously dropped the Elliott Smith-esque tune “Living in a Bubble.”
The mid-tempo jangly roots-pop gem opens the band’s first album of new material since 2016’s Paging Mr. Proust. The song features vocals from lead singer Gary Louris and drummer Tim O’Reagan.
“Introducing different voices throughout the song added a new dimension to telling the story,” says the band’s bassist Marc Perlman, who co-wrote the song with Louris.
The mid-tempo jangly roots-pop gem opens the band’s first album of new material since 2016’s Paging Mr. Proust. The song features vocals from lead singer Gary Louris and drummer Tim O’Reagan.
“Introducing different voices throughout the song added a new dimension to telling the story,” says the band’s bassist Marc Perlman, who co-wrote the song with Louris.
- 5/12/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Wilco singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy recently performed a solo acoustic rendition of his song “Pecan Pie” while at Traveler’s Rest, the Missoula, Montana music festival organized by the Decemberists. The performance was part of this year’s Bedstock, an online music series put on by MyMusicRx, a charitable program of the Children’s Cancer Association. Now you can have a taste of Tweedy’s “Pecan Pie” for yourself, and it’s very sweet.
“Pecan Pie” originally appeared on 1995’s Down by the Old Mainstream, the full-length debut of Golden Smog,...
“Pecan Pie” originally appeared on 1995’s Down by the Old Mainstream, the full-length debut of Golden Smog,...
- 10/10/2018
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
When Americana pioneers Uncle Tupelo released their major-label debut, Anodyne on October 5th, 1993, it should have been the beginning of something big.
In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major cities across America and Europe, not just the college towns where they spent years building their fan base.
They were following up their left-turn acoustic record, March 16-20, 1992, recorded with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, with their best record...
In a way, it was. Led by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy from tiny Belleville, Illinois, the alt-country movement’s promising breakout band was packing clubs in major cities across America and Europe, not just the college towns where they spent years building their fan base.
They were following up their left-turn acoustic record, March 16-20, 1992, recorded with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, with their best record...
- 10/5/2018
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
Ray Davies set the rock world aflutter late in June when he casually seemed to say that the Kinks were getting back together — and then characteristically undercut his comment by saying they’d be reuniting at the pub. Mark Goodman and Alan Light of SiriusXM’s “Debatable” grilled Davies on the subject today, asking him directly whether the famously fractious group, helmed by Ray and his younger brother Dave since 1963, are actually sorting out their differences and getting back together for the first time since 1996 — and as he’d said, reuniting with founding drummer Mick Avory for the first time since the early 1980s.
“We’ve got nothing to sort out — we’ll never get on!” Davies replied, referencing Dave and Avory. “But if we acknowledge that, we can make good music, because [Dave] is an outstanding guitar player. I still love winding [Dave] up,” he laughed. “I tried winding Gary up,...
“We’ve got nothing to sort out — we’ll never get on!” Davies replied, referencing Dave and Avory. “But if we acknowledge that, we can make good music, because [Dave] is an outstanding guitar player. I still love winding [Dave] up,” he laughed. “I tried winding Gary up,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Back in the 1990s, the Jayhawks were supposed to be huge. They’d plugged away for several years before releasing their breakthrough, Hollywood Town Hall, in 1992, earning the label alt-country more by coincidence than by actual sound. That album and its follow-up, 1995’s Tomorrow the Green Grass, honed the rustic harmonies and observational songwriting of Gary Louris and Mark Olson, who sang beautifully together about real people traipsing through the snowy Midwest. Although critically praised, the band never quite graduated from a cult to a mainstream act, which resulted in Olson leaving the band and Louris soldiering on and writing some embittered songs.
- 9/26/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
It probably would’ve been easy for Gary Louris and Mark Olson to reconvene The Jayhawks and just pick up where they left off as partners in 1995, recording a sound-alike sequel to their classics Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow The Green Grass. Instead, their new album, Mockingbird Time, takes into account 15 years of musical growth on the part of both men, from Louris’ post-Olson embrace of power-pop to Olson’s post-Louris exploration of long-line melodies and mountain music. The best songs on Mockingbird Time wind through changes, like a dialectical debate between Louris’ rock side and Olson’s ...
- 9/20/2011
- avclub.com
Watertower Music has announced a new soundtrack release for the HBO hit show True Blood. The album includes songs from the show by artists including Karen Olsen featuring Donovan, Neko Case and Nick Cave, Damien Rice, Massive Attack, Nick Lowe and Jace Everett. True Blood – Music from the Series Vol. 3 will be released on September 13, 2011. To pre-order the album, visit Amazon. Separate score albums featuring Nathan Barr’s music from the first two seasons are available on Varese Sarabande. The fourth season of True Blood created by Alan Ball and starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Ryan Kwanten and Sam Trammell currently airs every Sunday night on HBO. To find out more about the series, visit the official show website.
Here’s the album track list:
1. “Season Of The Witch” - Karen Elson featuring Donovan
2. “Me And The Devil” - Gil Scott-Heron
3. “Te Ni Nee Ni Nu” - Slim Harpo
4. “She...
Here’s the album track list:
1. “Season Of The Witch” - Karen Elson featuring Donovan
2. “Me And The Devil” - Gil Scott-Heron
3. “Te Ni Nee Ni Nu” - Slim Harpo
4. “She...
- 8/11/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
HollywoodNews.com: Singer/Songwriter/Actor Bryan Greenberg is set to release his sophomore studio album, “We Don’t Have Forever” in January 2011. Produced by Thom Monahan (Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Gary Louris), Greenberg’s latest album boasts a fresh collection of introspective narratives and soulful ballads, including the lead single, “Walk Away.” The album includes “You Can Run,” a collaborative recording with “How To Make It In America” co-star and hip-hop sensation Kid Cudi as well as the southern-rock inspired stand-out track “No Kind of Friend” featuring backing vocals from indie country/blues starlet Cary Ann Hearst.
In support of “We Don’t Have Forever,” Greenberg is taking his live show on the road throughout the month of December and January, making stops in major cities including New York, Chicago, and Nashville. After kicking off with a performance at Philadelphia?s World Café Live, his tour will wind its way across...
In support of “We Don’t Have Forever,” Greenberg is taking his live show on the road throughout the month of December and January, making stops in major cities including New York, Chicago, and Nashville. After kicking off with a performance at Philadelphia?s World Café Live, his tour will wind its way across...
- 11/15/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
Other bands have had worse luck than The Jayhawks, but few swam against the tide so forcefully or for so long. Formed in Minneapolis in the mid-’80s, the group drew on country music to create pop songs with a rootsy bent. Lumped in with the vaguely defined alt-country movement, the band hit the same invisible ceiling as others bearing the tag. Headed by the songwriting team of Gary Louris and Mark Olson, The Jayhawks suffered a further setback when Olson left the band following its should-have-been breakthrough album, 1995’s Tomorrow The Green Grass. Louris soldiered on for three ...
- 7/14/2009
- avclub.com
Former Jayhawks bandmates put history behind them to make some new memories
These new memories—thank the Americana gods—are riddled with Louris and Olson’s past, but there are hints of even older musical moments. Ready for the Flood reveals traces of The Kinks, the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield and even Procol Harum (check the organ on “My Gospel Song For You”) lingering in the minds of the makers. That the ghost of Gram Parsons haunts some of the tunes is less surprising but more than welcome. The production of Black Crowe Chris Robinson lends grit, but is never intrusive, letting the scruffy melodies and jigsaw-puzzle interlocking of these stellar voices do the heavy lifting. The few electric moments (“Bicycle” stands out) provide a different kind of tension, a gruff contrast to the straightforward acoustic timelessness of tracks like “Bloody Hands."
Listen to tracks from Ready for the Flood on MySpace.
These new memories—thank the Americana gods—are riddled with Louris and Olson’s past, but there are hints of even older musical moments. Ready for the Flood reveals traces of The Kinks, the Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Buffalo Springfield and even Procol Harum (check the organ on “My Gospel Song For You”) lingering in the minds of the makers. That the ghost of Gram Parsons haunts some of the tunes is less surprising but more than welcome. The production of Black Crowe Chris Robinson lends grit, but is never intrusive, letting the scruffy melodies and jigsaw-puzzle interlocking of these stellar voices do the heavy lifting. The few electric moments (“Bicycle” stands out) provide a different kind of tension, a gruff contrast to the straightforward acoustic timelessness of tracks like “Bloody Hands."
Listen to tracks from Ready for the Flood on MySpace.
- 1/27/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Minneapolis gang’s side projectstill breathes fresh air
Compare Golden Smog to Wilburys if you must, but this alleged supergroup (variously Uncle Tupelo/Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy, Run Westy Run’s Kraig Johnson, the Honeydogs’ Noah Levy, Big Star’s Jody Stephens and the Replacements’ Chris Mars), never suffered from overproduction—or even much collective fame. Named after Fred Flintstone’s “Golden Smog” parody of Mel Tormé’s “Velvet Fog” nickname, the Smog has, however, rolled out songs so full of multi-tiered harmonies, gorgeous 12-string Rickenbacker chords (is there a sweeter sound in rock ‘n’ roll?) and good-humored looseness, you’ll feel compelled to sing along. “Until You Came Along,” “V,” “Pecan Pie,” “Looking Forward to Seeing You,” “To Call My Own” (with its “tit-tit-tit” nod to the Beatles’ “Girl”)—why these cuts couldn’t work in the guys’ respective bands is unclear,...
Compare Golden Smog to Wilburys if you must, but this alleged supergroup (variously Uncle Tupelo/Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Marc Perlman, Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy, Run Westy Run’s Kraig Johnson, the Honeydogs’ Noah Levy, Big Star’s Jody Stephens and the Replacements’ Chris Mars), never suffered from overproduction—or even much collective fame. Named after Fred Flintstone’s “Golden Smog” parody of Mel Tormé’s “Velvet Fog” nickname, the Smog has, however, rolled out songs so full of multi-tiered harmonies, gorgeous 12-string Rickenbacker chords (is there a sweeter sound in rock ‘n’ roll?) and good-humored looseness, you’ll feel compelled to sing along. “Until You Came Along,” “V,” “Pecan Pie,” “Looking Forward to Seeing You,” “To Call My Own” (with its “tit-tit-tit” nod to the Beatles’ “Girl”)—why these cuts couldn’t work in the guys’ respective bands is unclear,...
- 11/6/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
The Sundance Institute unveiled Tuesday the five documentary filmmakers and six music composers selected for its second Documentary Composers Lab, which runs this year Aug. 1-5. This year's fellows for the docu program include: Ra'ed Andoni, Mark Becker, Mercedes Moncada, Hank Rogerson, and Jilann Spitzmiller. Composing fellows are Peter Fitazpatrick, Aiko Fuskushima, Joseph Julian Gonzales, Gary Louris, Frank Macchia and Ras Mesinai. Said Diane Weyermann, director of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund: "An original score is a powerful and effective element of a nonfiction film. This lab is an opportunity for documentary filmmakers to explore the power of music."...
- 7/28/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sundance Institute has announced the six participants for the seventh annual Sundance Institute Composers Lab, which runs July 20-Aug. 4 in Sundance, Utah. The fellows are: Peter Fitzpatrick, Aiko Fukushima, Joseph Julian Gonzalez, Gary Louris, Raz Mesinai and Michael Torke. During the two-week lab, participants will workshop and do creative exercises under the guidance of film composers and film music professionals. This year, creative advisors include film composers Jeff Beal, Camara Kambon, Rolfe Kent, Thomas Newman and Ed Shearmur. Other advisors are music editor Bill Bernstein, music supervisor/consultant Evyen Klean, music supervisor Tracy McKnight, film music agent Robert Messinger, BMI's Doreen Ringer Ross, sound designer Leslie Shatz and director Mark Water.
- 6/30/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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