Hadden Sayers - Acoustic Dopamine

Size: 92,6 MB
Time: 39:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Acoustic Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Dopamine Machine (4:02)
02. Learning To Disappear (2:48)
03. Unsatisfied (3:37)
04. Peppermint Patty (3:41)
05. I Feel Love (2:38)
06. Waiting Wanting (Feat. Ruthie Foster) (3:37)
07. Good Good Girl (3:22)
08. Blood Red Coup DeVille (3:47)
09. Hit The Road (3:33)
10. Backbreaker (4:06)
11. Gravity (4:09)

Personnel:
Hadden Sayers- Guitar(s) and vocals.
Jim Ed Cobbs - Hand claps, foot stomps and random objects.

Veteran Texas Singer, songwriter, guitarist Hadden Sayers' new release Acoustic Dopamine is a rare treat, a companion album that offers a radically different take on the songs from his concurrent release Dopamine Machine.

Dopamlne Machine Sayer's ninth album, is harder blues-rock than anything he's done in a long time. But each song had so much to say, Sayers sat on his bed with a 1954 Gibson acoustic and rearranged the whole album as a solo acoustic set, then took it into the studio to make a raw. pure version of Dopamine Machine.

Assisted only by Ruthie Foster, who lent her voice to the gorgeous duet 'Waiting Wanting,' and a friend who played percussion, the album is a stripped down set that captures the emotional intensity of each song.

While Dopamine Machine is for driving down the freeway with all the windows down and stereo cranked. Acoustic Dopamine is for traveling alone down a deserted highway all night long.

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Hadden Sayers - Dopamine Machine

Size: 91,8 MB
Time: 38:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Unsatisfied (3:51)
02. I Feel Love (2:32)
03. Hit The Road (3:55)
04. Blood Red Coup Deville (3:24)
05. Waiting Wanting (4:30)
06. Good Good Girl (3:26)
07. Learning To Disappear (2:47)
08. Peppermint Patty (2:48)
09. Dopamine Machine (3:10)
10. Gravity (4:20)
11. Backbreaker (4:07)

We haven’t heard from Hadden Sayers in five years, since his Blue Corn release Rolling Soul, where the combination of his gift for song and his crafty guitar playing proved irresistible. Prior to that, Sayers received a Blues Award nomination on his 2011 release Hard Dollar. Now the Texan has taken the self-release route with his Dopamine Machine project. It consists of separate electric and acoustic CDs with the same 11 tunes, albeit in a different order on the acoustic one. It’s the electric one, by far, that proves most worthy.

Despite the hiatus, this is Sayers’ ninth studio recording. He left Austin to record in Nashville with the notable session players Greg Morrow on drums, Johnny Neel on organ and Rusty McFarland on bass, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Sayers delivers amped-up, wall-shaking blues-rock on several tunes but finds a balance too, reflecting strong songwriting. Sayers still holds down the guitar chair in Ruthie Foster’s band and she joins for harmonies on “Waiting, Wanting.”

Sayers, commenting on the album, says it “is more from-the-heart than any of my other releases. It was written and recorded without any concern for what genre it may fit into. That lack of concern for how I fit into the music world made recording even more inspiring than it already is for me and it shows.” He describes the impetus for each of the tunes in the liners, indicating the location of the writing too. We’ll highlight a few of them. The first three tracks hold nothing back. He cites the second track, “I Feel Love,” as the impetus for this album, mentioning that he had heard too many Americana mellow love songs and he wanted to add rock. “Blood Red Coupe Deville” slows it all down to a soulful blues, inspired by listening to a spoken word stream-of-consciousness rant by Warren Zevon, describing a night he spent with Hunter S. Thompson.

“Waiting, Wanting” was written aboard the Legendary Rhythm & Blues cruise while anchored off Cabo San Lucas. There’s a combination of atmospheric guitar sounds, the rich harmony from Ruthie Foster, and a lullaby quality that Sayers intended for his son. The title track, a rather simple ditty, is about addiction, specifically to a cell phone, but it could work on other levels too. “Gravity,” a tune about aging, is the best crafted tune on the album. “Peppermint Patty” and “Backbreaker” show his explosive rocking side.

Hadden Sayers succeeds in delivering a slashing, hard rocking album but listen closely. It’s still his songwriting that sets him apart from others in that camp. —Jim Hynes

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Hadden Sayers - 2 albums: Hard Dollar / 12 Bars & The Naked Truth

For most musicians, "the road" is a place of either hedonism or heartache. Contrasts on the far ends of a far too common cliché. But for Soul-Blues Guitar Slinger Hadden Sayers, the road is a comfortable buzz of underground fans and passionate shows. It wasn't always this way. Because for a while, Sayers wasn't on the road.

He built a successful career in Houston, Texas before relocating to the Midwest so his wife could pursue a career in cancer research. But then, shifty record companies faded away. Band members died tragically. The gigs stopped coming through and the phone stopped ringing. The '57 Strat stayed in its case. However, Sayers rediscovered his love of music on regular drives to Southern Ohio where he was rehabbing a battered cabin. The murmur of radials on concrete, the sounds of Van Morrison and Sam Cooke on the stereo, and the support and tutelage of a grizzled stonemason sent him back to the recording studio.

In 2011, Sayers released the acclaimed Hard Dollar, featuring the single "Back to the Blues," which was nominated for the Song of the Year Award at the 33rd Annual Blues Music Awards. The album launched him back onto stages around the country. More than 100 gigs followed, from New York City to Mammoth Lakes, CA. Sayers embraced the road, loved it. Savored the miles, the buses, and the airplanes. While the easy rock and roll tale is to collect panties and mugshots on the road, Sayers collected stories. Stories by everyday people who had read HIS story of healing in Southern Ohio. From the woman whose husband had passed unexpectedly taking on immense home repairs with the help of some Home Depot classes after reading the bio…to the old man in Illinois who was moved to tears as he recalled a similar period of loss in his own life. The stories resonated in Sayers' head and heart driving him to explore the "human condition" more deeply.. The result of that troubadour experience is the eagerly anticipated album Rolling Soul from Blue Corn Music. Confident tunes from a mature, assured composer, the record features Sayers at his best. Heartfelt lyrics sung from deep inside matched with innovative guitar work, recorded with the warmth and soul and depth of the best vintage gear. It's a record to contemplate and savor.

Album: Hard Dollar
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:25
Size: 115.4 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:08] 1. Take Me Back To Texas
[3:32] 2. All I Want Is You
[5:30] 3. Back To The Blues
[3:27] 4. Insideout Boogie
[2:58] 5. Lap Of Luxury
[2:40] 6. Flat Black Automobile
[4:20] 7. Sweet Texas Girls
[2:40] 8. Crush On You
[3:11] 9. Ain't Comin' 'round No More
[4:00] 10. Hippie Getaway
[3:33] 11. Burnin' Up
[6:58] 12. Room 155
[4:22] 13. Moneyshot

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Album: 12 Bars And The Naked Truth
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:25
Size: 101.7 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. Extraordinary Girl
[3:28] 2. These Are The Good Old Days
[3:54] 3. Sunday Afternoon
[4:05] 4. Complicated
[5:05] 5. Hate Yourself Tomorrow
[3:27] 6. Rocknrollstar
[4:59] 7. Mister Know It All
[3:10] 8. Pray For Rain
[4:51] 9. Take A Little More
[3:26] 10. Up To You
[4:06] 11. Absolutely Free

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Hadden Sayers - SuperSonic

Released: 2001
Size: 113.5 MB
Time: 49:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Rock
Art: Front

1. Email Lover [3:02]
2. Good Man [3:41]
3. No Tears Left To Cry [3:46]
4. Blasted [4:03]
5. Little Bit of Love [3:01]
6. Love Won't Let Me Go [4:20]
7. Better All the Time [4:09]
8. Emotional [6:27]
9. Tip of My Tongue [3:32]
10. Solitude [4:22]
11. One More For the Road [4:16]
12. Never Never [4:08]
13. Flat Black Automobile [0:42]

Hadden Sayers was born in Nacogdoches, TX and was raised in Sugar Land.
He began playing guitar as a teenager and was immersed in live music while a student at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.

Studying took a back seat to all-night jam sessions and performances by Blues and Texas Music legends Gatemouth Brown, Joe Ely, Omar and the Howlers, Eric Johnson and other musicians of different genres. In fact, Sayers once spent an afternoon driving Punk legends "The Ramones" around in his car in search of a proper plate of barbeque!
After earning a degree in Journalism Sayers moved to Austin, TX where he began his "blues internship" with legendary BB King rhythm section "Silent Partners". Shortly thereafter he joined Bluesman Lucky Peterson's touring band and spent time learning the finer points of keeping a juke joint band on the road.

After his stint with Lucky Peterson, Sayers returned to Houston, TX to concentrate on writing songs. It was there he began a 3 year association with regional sensation Miss Molly and the Whips making his recording and songwriting debut on her first 2 releases: "Miss Molly" (EFM 1992) and "In the Garden" (EFM 1993).

Sayers began work on his own album in late 1993 and the Hadden Sayers Band was born...touring the globe and going on to create 4 more albums of searing blues-rock.

In 2004 Sayers moved to Columbus, Ohio to re-invent and re-invigorate his musical touring machine.
After a two-year hiatus from relentless touring. Sayers has returned to the studio and stage with an armload of new songs that decidedly more "Texas" than the material he wrote while living in the state. "Its a classic case of absence making the heart grow fonder." "The material I'm writing today is directly linked to the dancehalls and stages I frequented in my first groups.....
blurring the line between Country, Rock and Blues". Recorded at Hum Depot, Nashville, Tennessee. Hadden Sayers Band: Hadden Sayers (vocals, electric guitar); Rusty McFarland (acoustic & electric guitars, bass, percussion); Pat Buchanan (electric guitar, background vocals); Tony Harrell (piano, keyboards); Doug Kahan (bass); Greg Morrow (drums). Personnel: Hadden Sayers (electric guitar); Rusty McFarland (acoustic guitar); Tony Harrell (Hammond b-3 organ); Doug Kahan (bass guitar); Greg Morrow (drums); Pat Buchanan (background vocals).


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