It's all too rare these days when praise dished out by the NME turns out to be well-deserved, but this is the case with this young 24-year-old Alabama man.
Cursory comparisons to Johnny Cash just don't walk the line, though on recent single Replacement Man it could easily have been the ghost of the man in black duetting with Chris Isaac in backwoods bar-rooms where bikers fear to tread.
But Hangers On, Gun vs. Knife and I Wanted It So stem more from Jon Spencer's school of scandalous skiffle, built on blocks of Duane Eddy guitar twangs.
A street-fighting man who can put a knowing glint in a young girl's eye, Sartain could be the wild younger brother of our own Richard Hawley.
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