Poet, musician, avant-garde musical thinker and doer, Johnny Dowd may live in upstate New York these days, but that fellow is 100 percent died-in-the-wool Okie through and through. When Dowd ope... Continue reading "Johnny Dowd Joins Ranks Of Oklahoma Music Greats" >
"Three years she's been in a coma, In a hospital in Paul´s Valley, Oklahoma..." A spooky ballad on the theme of guilt by Johnny Dowd, former mover turned rock & roller at the ripe age of fifty. Johnny´s the real deal alright. Dostoyevsky with a guitar. Crime and punishment. Dark, dark stuff. "No woman´s flesh but hers will I touch, No woman´s flesh but hers... I go to visit her three times a week, And when I leave I kiss her on the cheek..." Johnny Dowd - No Woman´s Flesh [...]
Since his auspicious, creepy-as-fuck, debut, Wrong Side of Memphis, at the age of 49 in 1998, Johnny Dowd has been exploring the darkest corner's of the evil that men do. Twelve years, and as many albums later, Dowd continues down his chosen path with Wake Up The Snakes. Like a hardscrabble Larry Brown tale come [...]
It's interesting and a somewhat sad commentary on music blogs that someone like Johnny Dowd , whose new record was released in March of this year, is nowhere to be found. While the regular cast of music bloggers that I like write about stuff that is under the radar, on the whole it seems like if you don't issue multiple press releases with several different pr firms you're not going to get any attention on the blogs. It's a shame because Johnny Dowd is a living national treasure. He's Alex Chilton if Chilton didn't have a [...]
Jeffrey Lee Piercen (1958-1996) muistoa kunnioittava We Are Only Riders ei ole perinteinen tribuuttilevy. Tunnetuimpien kappaleiden sijaan mukana olevat sangen nimekkäät artistit ovat lähteneet tulkitsemaan yhdessä erinäisiltä kaseteilta ja nauhoilta löytyneitä viimeistelemättömiä Piercen kappaleaihioita. Osa biiseistä perustuu karkeisiin demoversioihin (mm. Ramblin' Mind, Constant Waiting ja Free To Walk), kun taas toisten pohjana on ainoastaan instrumentaaliraidat ilman sanoituksia (The Snow Country). Ainoastaan Lucky Jim on aikaisemmin julkaistu, mutta sekin rakennettiin tätä albumia varten erilaista demoversiota hyödyntäen. Mielenkiintoista on huomata, miten artistit ovat päätyneet hyvinkin erilaisiin lopputuloksiin, vaikka rakennusaineet ovat olleet samat. Kappaleet ovat myös [...]
We know next to nothing about Abortopotamus Rex except for the following:It's a weird name.And they're a weird folk band, seriously weird. The song appears to tell the tale of first person murder with bald, unflinching frankness and some brilliant lyrical couplets. The music is a equally unsettling - the sort of thing Jason Vorhees might have on his iPod.Their other song on MySpace is called
THANKSGIVING DAY Ray Davies Other People's Lives V2 : 2006 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING DAY Johnny Dowd Wrong Side of Memphis Munich : 1998 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Mary Gauthier Between Daylight and Dusk Lost Highway : 2007 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Loudon Wainwright III Career Moves Virgin : 1993 [Buy It] [...]
Johnny Dowd : Thanksgiving Day [ purchase ] "You don't have to be a rock star to have fun, You don't have to be a soldier to carry a gun, You don't have to be a postman to mail a letter, Be content with your life - it may not get any better..." Says it all really. This comes from Johnny Dowd´s wonderful debut album Wrong Side Of [...]
MM was clearing up an enormous pool of dog vomit and bile from the kitchen floor at 6.30 this morning after the dozy hound ate a pair of boxer shorts. It was the worst smell we've ever come across.Mrs Mackerel has cleaned the floor twice more and it still smells. It still smells.This has put an entirely different perspective on MM's week.Here are two appropriately dog related tunes. The first is
I have to admit this tenpack formula is a rather lazy affair, but heck, it´s summer, right? Let´s milk it some more then. Today we´re going completely country, with a varied selection of originators, outlaws and outsiders of the genre. So take that rocking chair outside, pour yourself a tall cool one (may I suggest the Lone Star brand?) and "sing a little bit of these working man blues..." Merle Haggard - Workin´ Man Blues MP3 Louvin Brothers - Let Her Go, God Bless Her MP3 [...]
Johnny Dowd - Murder ( buy ) Johnny Dowd used to be in the moving business in upstate New York and only released his debut album Wrong Side Of Memphis at the ripe age of fifty. Maybe that´s the reason his twisted amalgam of country and blues sounds both timeless and out of time? The spooky opener Murder provides the perfect soundtrack to whatever Chandler, Crumley or Ellroy novel you´re enjoying at the moment. "There´s been a murder here today, the weapon was a knife, the woman [...]
(image borrowed from Marsneedsguitars.com - I was in a rush...)As is often the way with searching and researching music, it was on reading the eMusic biography and interview with Bosque Brown that a comment about Townes Van Zandt being her main inspiration caught my eye. This immediately reminded me of the recent Hear Ya blog posting about a MadMackerel favourite, Steve Earle and his forthcoming
Johnny Dowd has put up a free MP3 album of a concert recorded March 22, 2000 at Schuba's, Chicago, IL: We've come across an interesting live recording of Johnny and the band recorded in 2000 at Schuba's in Chicago. We put the songs up as free MP3 downloads on the Albums page. Band members on the recording are: Justin Asher on guitar, Brian Wilson (aka Willie B) on drums, and Kim Sherwood-Caso, vocals. Of course, Johnny, vocals and guitar. Many thanks to Mike Cook for getting this together for us. [...]
PAIN The Hunter Ronson Band Y U I Orta Universal : 1990 [Buy It] HOUSE OF PAIN Johnny Dowd Cruel Words Bongo Beat : 2006 [Buy It] PAIN PAIN Cheap Trick 1975 Available on: Bun E's Basement Bootleg: Beertown '75 SICKBED BLUES Skip James Devil Got My Woman Vanguard : 1968 [Buy It] [...]
Singer-songwriter Johnny Dowd has posted a live version of Adultress on his website: A gift for you: a really great version of Johnny's song, "Adultress," is at left as free MP3 download. Vocalist is Kim Sherwood-Caso. It was recorded at the Grassroots Festival in Trumansburg, New York, in 2007. Willie B. on drums, Michael Stark on keyboards, and Johnny on guitar. The song is on Johnny's latest record, "A Drunkard's Masterpiece." MP3: Johnny Dowd - Adultress (Live at the Grassroots Festival, Trumansburg, NY [...]
Singer-songwriter Johnny Dowd has posted a live version of Butcher's Son on his website: It's a live recording of Johnny and the band performing "Butcher's Son" at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October of 2002. Willie B was on drums and Justin Asher was on guitar. It was recorded by Dan Lang. We plan to put more live recordings on the site for free download in the coming weeks, so please check back. MP3: Johnny Dowd - Butcher's Son Live [...]
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