Bio: On July 20, 2010 One Little Indian Records will release Dan Sartain Lives, the latest album from Alabama's Magic City-based lo-fi rockabilly troubadour Dan Sartain. Lives was produced by ... (more)
Bio: On July 20, 2010 One Little Indian Records will release Dan Sartain Lives, the latest album from Alabama's Magic City-based lo-fi rockabilly troubadour Dan Sartain. Lives was produced by Grammy Award winner Liam Watson (The White Stripes, ex-Stranglers Hugh Cornwell) and is the long awaited follow-up to the 2006 full length Join Dan Sartain.
Birmingham, AL-based Dan Sartain rode in on the wave of interest in stripped-down back-to-basics roots music spearheaded by the all-conquering White Stripes in the early 2000s. The lean and bequiffed Sartain self-released a couple of long-players before his full debut; 2003's Dan Sartain vs. the Serpientes, released on Rocket From The Crypt/Hot Snakes frontman John "Speedo" Reis' Swami label. The album's frantic and compelling fusion of rockabilly, blues, garage, and punk, characterized by heartfelt yet gloriously misanthropic songs were championed by journalists at NME, MOJO, Rolling Stone and GQ among many others.
The follow-up, Join Dan Sartain, continued the winning theme. Partly recorded at London analog boffin Liam Watson's ToeRag studio, the album was a more diverse affair featuring occasional forays into lounge and mariachi -- but all delivered with trademark breathless abandon. Two singles, “Replacement Man” and “The Flight of the Finch,” from the album broke into the Top 20 U.K. independent charts that year. The momentum continued in 2007 when Sartain toured with The White Stripes and also opened for Swedish garage rockers The Hives. Sartain released several singles in late 2009, one of which “Bohemian Groove” was released on Third Ma (less)
