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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
superb, 17 Oct 2006
a modern day johnny cash. if you are looking for something a little diffrent than all the same old commercal rubbish that you here on the radio day in, day out! then buy this and the previous album. full of catchy 2-3min songs that could have been produced any time in the last 50 years.buy it, but keep it to your self.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dan Sartain takes it to a new level, 29 Sep 2006
Having had the fortune to watch Dan play live before, I was really looking forward to checking out his material from the new album at his London gig. No longer is he the one man hurricane who has won over so many loyal fans, but he sweapt in from Alabama with drummer and a new bass player. The sound generated took the whole vibe to a new level. A fuller harder more indie rock n roll hillbilly experience. The crowd were totally engaged for over an hour as the band ripped through favourites from Vs. The Serpientes album and new tracks from Join Dan Sartain. Despite an obsession with suicidal album covers, Dan and band came accross as genuinely happy guys, who enjoyed playing the gig as much as we enjoyed being there. The sound can only be described as The White Stripes hanging with the Beach Boys listening to Ennio Morricone soundtracks - speaking of soundtracks, Tarantino - Sartain has written the music to Pulp Fiction 2 for you... The new album is superb, go on... get a copy, you won't be dissapointed
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Shenanigans, 31 Jan 2007
With 15 songs weighing in at a combined 37 minutes, you'll forgive me for applying 'lightweight' to much of this album. Sartain's country and western-tinged style lacks punch, despite his often confident and strident vocals and lyrics. With a sparse set up of one, sometimes two guitars, vocals and drums, the upbeat, ragtime feel to much of the album gets rather repetitive on some tracks, most notably Replacement Man which sounds like the first three tracks rolled into one. This is a shame, as the dry tale of male jealousy on track 3, Gun vs Knife, is perhaps the best moment on Join Dan Sartain.
It is, instead, the salsa-tinted Flight of the Finch and Besa Me Mucho which stand out above much of the rest of the songs, all latino rhythms and guitars and featuring explosions of brass and sweet violin melodies.
However, that is not to take too much away from Sartain. It is a well-appropriated genre he has used, done with much skill and an ear for the barren production. It is simply the case that 15 tracks of largely the same stuff tires, and while individual tracks stand out, the album as a whole is unavoidably repetitive and lacks real depth to prevent it from being so.
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