This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
To say Toronto’s Sadies have music in their blood is practically an understatement.
If you don’t already know, singer/guitarist brothers Travis and Dallas Good are the sons of Bruce Good — as in Canadian country legends The Good Brothers. But on their accurately name sophomore disc Pure Diamond Gold, these country-rock scions are staking out a darker, scragglier patch of turf than their musical forebears. You can’t miss it: It’s halfway between the spaghetti-western twang of Ennio Morricone, the hard-driving surf-rock of Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet and the hard-drinking Appalachian murder balladry of the Anthology Of American Folk Music. Enter at your own risk — and expect to hang around for a while when you do.
