Artist: John Doe
Record Review from web archive April 14, 2009
John Doe & the Sadies
On the face of it, the pairing of John Doe with the Sadies seems so head-slappingly obvious it’s a wonder they haven’t managed to hook up before now. In the 1980s, as a member of X and the Knitters, Doe stood tall on the tightrope between punk iconoclasm and country tradition. That’s the same gap [...]
Live Reviews from web archive November 12, 2008
John Doe & Kathleen Edwards
At the conclusion of John Doe and Kathleen Edwards’ November 8 performance at Carnegie Hall’s elegant Zankel Hall in New York, the duo stepped in front of the microphones and monitors they had been using all set, walked to the edge of the stage, and – unaided by anything more technologically sophisticated than the room’s [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #70 July-August 2007
John Doe – A Year In The Wilderness
The finest singer to emerge from American punk (depending on how you classify Los Lobos and David Hidalgo), John Doe has somehow managed to combine the reckless urgency that burned through his work with X with the lyrical precision and musical expansiveness that has marked his growth as a songwriter. Though Doe’s solo career stretches [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #56 March-April 2005
John Doe – Wolf at the door
“What I’m most interested in, from any record I listen to, is hearing a moment. A moment when, ‘Is there something real that’s going on here? Is someone experiencing something and translating that?’” John Doe In 1980, the band X released one of the best records ever to come out of the American punk scene, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #41 Sept-Oct 2002
John Doe – Dim Stars, Bright Sky
John Doe’s latest solo record has a palpable, live-in-a-room vibe. Doe, Joe Henry and Dave Way jointly produced it, coaxing down star-shine from the Los Angeles skies to set the sessions aglow. For that matter, the X vocalist has said he was aiming less for something alt-countryish and more toward an intimate, acoustic-based Elliott Smith [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
John Doe – Border X-ing
X was the American Clash. During a brief window between 1976 and 1981, when the definitions of punk rock were still up for grabs, X and the Clash took the broadest possible approach. They didn’t accept the narrow view that only the new, the angry, the fast and the hard qualified. For John Doe and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #2 Winter 1995
The John Doe Thing – Kissingsohard
On his first solo album, Meet John Doe, the vocals were pushed forward as far as possible, establishing Doe as a frontman in the wake of the temporary demise of X. Combined with unimaginative roots-pop arrangements the results were somewhat less than spectacular. Not surprisingly the album was quickly forgotten. On Kissingsohard Doe takes an [...]
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