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Dallas Good<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Travis Good<\/b>\u00a0have performed and recorded with Neil Young, author Margaret Atwood,\u00a0Randy Bachman<\/b>, Buffy Sainte-Marie and actor Gordon Pinsent. But it was another Canadian icon \u2013 one with whom they\u2019ve yet to collaborate \u2013 who offered some crucial wisdom.<\/p>\n
It was 1996, when their band the Sadies was getting started, and Dallas\u2019 and Travis\u2019 father,\u00a0Bruce Good<\/b>, of bluegrass heroes the Good Brothers, was celebrating his 50th\u00a0birthday at Toronto\u2019s Horseshoe Tavern. Into the club walks\u00a0Gordon Lightfoot<\/b>, who\u2019d had the senior Goods open for him during the \u201870s. \u201cAfterwards,\u201d Travis recalls, \u201cLightfoot turns to us and says, \u2018The only advice I\u2019ll give you is do your own songs.\u2019 We took heed and started getting rid of all those traditional bluegrass murder ballads and tried to write our own.\u201d<\/p>\n
At first, the Sadies made their mark with Dallas and Travis as formidable guitar slingers, backed by their rhythmic accomplices of upright bassist\u00a0Sean Dean<\/b>\u00a0and drummer\u00a0Mike Belitsky<\/b>. Mostly, they were a killer instrumental band, reveling in their love of surf songs and spaghetti western music. Although the group also embraced \u201860s psychedelic and garage-rock sounds, the brothers never entirely strayed from the country roots of their Good family upbringing. The Sadies members honed their chops touring, either on their own or opening for Blue Rodeo and the Tragically Hip. They also became\u00a0Neko Case<\/b>\u2019s backing band and recorded with such diverse artists as Jon Langford, John Doe, Andr\u00e9 Williams and Roger Knox \u2013 all influential collaborations.<\/p>\n But it was Gary Louris, of U.S. country-rockers The Jayhawks, who had the greatest impact on their compositional skills. Louris produced the Sadies\u2019 last two studio albums, 2007\u2019s critically acclaimed\u00a0New Seasons\u00a0<\/i>and 2010\u2019s Polaris Prize-nominated\u00a0Darker Circles<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t stress enough how much Gary changed my approach to songwriting,\u201d says Dallas, \u201ceven with simple rules like \u2018don\u2019t overuse certain words.\u2019 He really gave me confidence as a lyricist.\u201d Adds Travis: \u201cWe\u2019re pretty confident with guitars, but not with words and singing. Gary\u2019s great for that and suggested harmonies that my brain just doesn\u2019t pick up on.\u201d<\/p>\n Louris has also produced the Sadies\u2019 next studio album, due out in the late summer of what promises to be an especially busy year \u2013 even for one of Canada\u2019s hardest-working bands. Following that untitled recording will be a rock album with the Hip\u2019s\u00a0Gord Downie<\/b>.<\/p>\n <\/b>Already out is\u00a0The Good Family Album<\/i>, a bluegrass affair that brings Dallas and Travis together with their father Bruce, uncle\u00a0Larry Good<\/b>, mother Margaret and cousin D\u2019arcy Good, all backed by the Sadies\u2019 Dean and Belitsky. The album features eight songs written by the family and two written with longtime Sadies cohort\u00a0Greg Keelor<\/b>\u00a0of Blue Rodeo. Dallas, who co-wrote \u201cLife Passes (And Old Fires Die)\u201d with\u00a0Daniel Romano<\/b>\u00a0and another pair with D\u2019arcy, says that recording covers like \u201cWill the Circle Be Unbroken\u201d was never an option. \u201cThat would be old hat and far too predictable,\u201d says Dallas, who also co-wrote \u201cRestless River\u201d with Bruce, about his dad\u2019s First Nations mother. Adds Dallas: \u201cWriting with D\u2019arcy was great, because I\u2019ve always considered her the most talented member of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n A Goods project brings things full circle for Dallas and Travis. Both were born in the bluegrass world of their father and uncles, while Travis joined the Good Brothers band after high school. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like we grew up Partridge Family-style at all,\u201d Dallas recalls, \u201cbut we were surrounded by good records and lots of instruments. I initially rejected bluegrass for punk \u2013 until I found out that bluegrass is a lot faster and harder to play than most hardcore and aggressive music.\u201d<\/p>\n As a kid, Travis took lessons from\u00a0Red Shea<\/b>, Lightfoot\u2019s guitarist in the \u201960s, and both he and Dallas remember being backstage at many shows involving Lightfoot and the Good Brothers. Another Lightfoot connection is Margaret\u2019s \u201cSame Old Song\u201d on\u00a0The Good Family Album<\/i>: it includes the playing of\u00a0Terry Clements<\/b>, the folk legend\u2019s longtime guitarist, from the song\u2019s original demo.<\/p>\n The stars aligned for the Sadies in 2010, when they got to back Neil Young on a recording for Garth Hudson\u2019s compilation\u00a0A Canadian Celebration of The Band<\/i>. Since then, the group has toured with Young and has lately performed with Randy Bachman, who\u2019s written a song for the Sadies called \u201cCanadian Garage.\u201d<\/p>\n A collaboration with Lightfoot has, so far, remained elusive, although Dallas and Travis recorded a Lightfoot tribute with Keelor and\u00a0Rick White<\/b>, of Elevator, in a side project called The Unintended. After working with Downie and Pinsent (with whom Travis and Keelor recorded last year\u2019s\u00a0Down and Out in Upalong<\/i>), an album with Lightfoot would cap an already stellar career \u2013 and complete a distinctly Canadian hat trick.<\/p>\n \u201cI already have the perfect title for it \u2013\u00a0Out of Our Gords<\/i>,\u201d laughs Travis. \u201cNow, if only we could just rope Lightfoot into it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Country-music heirs make a family album<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":109971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}