Artist · chart history
Sons And Daughters
Band Glasgow United Kingdom Active 2001–2012
Sons And Daughters formed in 2001 in Glasgow, United Kingdom and was active until 2012. Sons And Daughters has 1 chart appearance on 1 radio countdown from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 2004. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Johnny Cash”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #7. The station that charted Sons And Daughters most often is John Peel (BBC Radio 1), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2004.
Sons and Daughters started as Adele Bethel's idea, dreamed up in 2001 while she was out on the road with Arab Strap, and it grew into a Glasgow band with a dark, stomping heart. Bethel, David Gow and Ailidh Lennon made up the first lineup and were already recording when Scott Paterson came aboard as a second singer, giving the songs a boy-girl push and pull. The early shows went over well, and word spread.
Love the Cup, their debut, is a lean 25-minute affair. The band paid for it themselves and released it through Ba Da Bing Records in 2003, and it got a second life when Domino signed them in 2004. "Johnny Cash" is the track that grabs you: a gothic hoedown that rattles along like a runaway cart, all twang and menace.
The Repulsion Box followed in June 2005, and the next February they were opening for Morrissey on the first leg of his UK tour. Bernard Butler produced This Gift, out on 28 January 2008. After a quiet stretch they gave away "Silver Spell" as a free download to trail Mirror Mirror, released on 13 June 2011, and on 2 November 2012 they announced they were finished.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sons And Daughters on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Cash | 1 | #7 | – | 2004 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | Johnny Cash | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2004 |
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