hadden sayers
Bio


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".

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Quotes

"Sayer’s fourth album, ‘Supersonic’ remains an example of one of the finest independent rock albums over the past decade"

...Rick Galusha KWZR Radio Omaha, NE

"Hadden's pretty much my hero"
...Billy F. Gibbons, ZZ Top

"Hadden really never needed lessons….he's really good…I should probably take a few lessons from him on writing songs…he's a real good composer."
....Texas guitar great Chris Duarte

"Hadden Sayers woke up the sleeping giant, that being the crowd, at the Ottawa Blues Festival with a sizzling display of guitar, bass and drums"
Danny Murray...mnblues.com

"Hadden has the chops to do the guitar hero thing but he uses his guitar to support the songs instead."
Robert Murphy...

Previews and Reviews


Hadden Sayers
, the frontman of a blues power trio comfortable with both the fiery side of Stevie Ray and the languid soul of Delbert McClinton, is in that "in-between" blues zone. His music works anywhere, from the smokiest roadhouse to the smokiest coffee house. With his live surf-guitar medleys and Texas-tested ax work (he's from Houston, after all), Sayers can hold his own with most slingers. But with his soulful baritone voice and his focus on creating memorable songs, he also works blues rock ground previously plowed by McClinton, Robert Cray and Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Songs from last year's Supersonic, such as "Emotional," "Never Never" and the gentle, acoustic "Solitude," drift through listeners' minds long after memories of scorching licks have vanished. Sayers works hard to make your body move; even more important, he does everything he can to make you listen.

©®Hadden Sayers Band 2009, 2010