“Sadie Mae makes it apparent that Nick Moss has reached new heights and become a serious musical force to be reckoned with. Moss’ formidable command of the timeless 1950s Chicago sounds—and all its musical twists and turns since then— captivates the listener via his top-shelf guitar work, vocals showing a new level of effectiveness and expressiveness, and a program heavy on personal songwriting about topics ranging from his own family to one of Chicago’s most notorious ghetto scenesters.”
—Dick Shurman

"Nick Moss' Sadie Mae steps deeper into the Old School Chicago Blues that Nick learned onstage with the legends of that music, and is inspired by both the sweet love for his baby daughter and the mean old world we all live in. It's real, raw, and passionate Blues."
—Bob Margolin

"One of the best new blues albums I've heard in years!
There's not a bad track on it."
—Craig Freireich, owner - Eat More Records (Atlanta, GA)

"...Moss has all the right guitar tones with heated technique to match. Which makes (Sadie Mae) a banquet for lovers of blues six-string. He also sings with testifying emotion, arching his voice up as he spins tales of misery and devotion...
—Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix (Boston, MA)

"Dynamite new CD."
—Niles Frantz, WBEZ (Chicago, IL)

"I just listened to the CD for the first time on my way to work tonight. The first song just kicked my ass! I probably got about 6 or 7 songs into the CD and they're all good. Congratulations! I can't wait to get off the air so I can listen to more on the way home."
—Tom Marker, WXRT - Bluesbreakers (Chicago, IL)

"Moss is an absolute GEM. What a great release. I think this cements him as a serious player in the blues world. I had a chance to meet Nick a couple years ago at a small club in Champaign IL and had a great chat, and he played the blues fest in Bloomington last summer. Great guy."
—Jon Norton, WGLT Music Director (Normal, IL)

"The 'Nick Moss' is great! One of the best CDs of the year!
—Marty Kool, KXCI (Tucson, AZ)

"All I can say is Thank You. 115 minutes of great music, I'm not worthy!"
—Greg Sarni, Blues Trust/WBRS (Boston, MA)

"Yes I love this one. It is the best blues I have heard all year! Look for it to chart this week.
—KAFM (Grand Junction, CO)

"Nick Moss & the Flip Tops' "Sadie Mae" album is here!
Sadie Mae—the new album of Nick Moss & the Flip Tops—is certainly one of the greatest Blues events of this summer. 75 minutes of open-mouthed listening. With more evidence than ever Nick Moss demonstrates how contemporary may sound the traditional Chicago Blues. More than that—though, in the liner note, he affirms not to be "trying to take blues to the next level",- he DOES take the real, authentic Blues up to the level of classical music, where the words "old" and "new", "now" and "then" loose their sense in the face of an everlasting beauty. A not to miss album for all Blues lovers. Even more for those who aren't—these 75 minutes will make them change their mind!"
—Paul Bondarovski, Midnight Special Blues Radio (Paris, France)

"Love it and am playing the heck out of it."
—Leo Schumaker, KCSB (Santa Barbara, CA) and N2BN.org

“...With these 16 songs (very generous indeed!), mostly self-written plus some great covers, Nick delivers his most inspired CD to date... again, the blues had a (most beautiful) baby and its name is Sadie Mae.”
—Marc Nolis, RootsTown Music (Belgium)

"This guy has what it takes to go the distance. Feeling like that can't be taught, it just has to ooze out of your soul."
—The Blues Hound,  KPFT (Houston, TX)

"Here's a youngster that learned at the knee of Jimmy Rodgers and is set for giving you the real blues experience, not some frat boy vision of it. With the kind of roar that powered Muddy Waters out of the south and into the industrial, post war revolution, Moss doesn't play like an acolyte or a wannabe, he's got his hand on the grail. Hard charging set that was born of roadhouse sweat and grit. Real blues fans will love this real deal."
—Midwest Record Recap (Chicago, IL)

"Another great album! Traditional Chicago blues is in good hands!!"
—Paul Wanner, Producer/Host, WATD-FM (Rayham, MA)

"Sadie Mae is the work of a young guitarist who has absorbed the blues—not note by note in his bedroom somewhere, but on the road with old masters from Chicago. His solos sound like he is speaking to us, not showing us what he has learned. And for a change, the music has been recorded in a way that reminds me why the blues changed my life..." (read full review)
—Michael Ross, PureMusic.com

"Nick Moss & The Flip Tops have been to the W.C. Handy altar twice, but never anointed... Here (with the release of Sadie Mae) they have a good chance at being third time lucky for the Best Traditional Album."
—Billy Hutchinson, Blues Matters Magazine (UK)

"He plays the kind of guitar that bleeds you to death before you know you’ve been cut, and his voice has the kind of authority that only comes from spending too much time on the wrong side of the tracks."
—Don Wilcock, The Record (Troy, NY)

"Thank you very much for sending us a copy of Sadie Mae.  I will add for airplay immediately on our 3 weekly blues shows at WCNI. Excellent work!"
—Dana Fargnoli, Blues Director, WCNI (New London, CT)

"Sadie Mae by Nick Moss & the Flip Tops is another unadulterated exercise in classic Chicago blues sensibilities by one of the best young bands on the scene. There's nothing especially adventurous going on and that's just fine because the album wasn't meant to do anything but recapture and revitalize the sort of sound Muddy Waters made in his prime. That in itself is a significant undertaking and guitarist Moss and the band lock into the classic sound from the opening track and never let go. The muscular material, which includes a dozen in-the-tradition originals, provides the perfect context for Moss to cut loose on guitar while the group digs deep into the original Windy City sound."
—Michael Point, The Leader (Austin, TX)

"The basis of anything powerful, successful and full of strength is a good foundation with strong supports. Without these characteristics, endurance and longevity would be unachievable. Already having the good foundation established by playing with Jimmy Dawkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Big Bill Morganfield and the legendary Jimmy Rogers, NICK MOSS has just added the fourth cornerstone which will support the greatness he is destined to achieve in the blues world." (read full review)
—Peter "Blewzzman" Lauro, Mary4Music.com

"In the Blues, there is a huge choice, there are so much CD that you don't know which one to listen to, all things, good things and others that we don't want to speak of ... But, one day, you don't know how, you find the Exception, the thing that blow your face off, the BIG THING, and only with the first couples of chords. You hair start to draw up and stay like that until the end of the album. You listen to it endlessly, all full of pleasure... This is what happened and still is happening with the discover of this (come on! say it!!) masterpiece made for us by Nick Moss."
—Erick Daird, Blues&Co. (France)

16 TRACKS!
OVER 75 MINUTES OF BLUES!
PRODUCED BY NICK MOSS

Sadie Mae
I Never Forget
Check My Pulse
Just Like That
Ridin’ At The Ranch
One-Eyed Jack
Grease Monkey
The Money I Make
Feel So Ashamed
The ColdCut Stomp
The Bishop
You Got To Lose
If I Could Get My Hands On You
Crazy Woman Blues
Everybody Got To Go
Gone Hoggin’

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