Doe said that it was made in the desert, in Arizona, and that the genre is psychedelic soul. His latest solo record, The Westerner, was released in 2016. Country Club (2009), featuring Canadian indie rock band The Sadies, covered country classics along with original songs.ĭoe contributed a cover of ' Peggy Sue Got Married' to the 2011 tribute album Rave on Buddy Holly. 'The Meanest Man in the World' by Doe was featured in Season 4 of the television series Friday Night Lights and included on the second soundtrack album.

He then joined with Eddie Vedder on a mix of the song 'Golden State' in 2008. Doe recorded the song 'Unforgiven' in 2007 with Aimee Mann on A Year in the Wilderness, an album which also featured Kathleen Edwards, Jill Sobule, Dan Auerbach. Augustine.' Both recordings were included on the film's soundtrack, and the former was prominently featured in the film, with Christian Bale (as Pastor John Rollins) lip-synching Doe's vocals. ĭoe took part in Todd Haynes's 2007 movie I'm Not There, recording two Bob Dylan covers, 'Pressing On' and 'I Dreamed I Saw St. He co-wrote and played on the song 'Lobotomy' with Tyler Willman for the eponymous 1998 debut studio album of the band Calm Down Juanita. in September 1992, but no version is believed to exist on CD. It was released on audio cassette by Warner Bros. In the 1992 movie The Bodyguard (starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston), it is Doe's version of ' I Will Always Love You' that plays on the jukebox when Costner's and Houston's characters are dancing. Since 1990, Doe has recorded nearly a dozen albums as a soloist or in collaboration with other artists, and has contributed tracks to motion pictures. He also wrote 'Cyrano de Berger's Back' for the Flesh Eaters LP A Minute to Pray, a Second To Die.

With Dave Alvin, he co-wrote two of the songs on the Blasters' 1984 album Hard Line, 'Just Another Sunday' and 'Little Honey'. Wild Gift, an album from that band's heyday, was named 'Record of the Year' by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. Īlong with co-writer Exene Cervenka, Doe composed most of the songs recorded by X. John Doe performing at Adams Avenue Street Fair, San Diego, 2006Īs a musician with X, Doe has two feature-length concert films, several music videos, and an extended performance-and-interview sequence in The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris's seminal documentary about the early-1980s L.A.

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