Johnny Dowd (US)

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Johnny Dowd är en amerikansk alternativ countrymusiker från Ithaca, New York som gjorde sig ett namn på Memphis musikscen. För fans av Tom Waits, Nick Cave och Andi Almqvist. Typiskt för hans stil är experimentella, bullriga avbrott i hans låtar och starka gotiska inslag i såväl texten som i musiken. Det finns också en stark underström av svart humor och det absurda i hans verk.

From 1999 he released a record every year while touring both the US and Europe, making his major film debut in Jim White’s “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus”. Record titles like The Pawnbroker's Wife, Cemetery Shoes, or A Drunkard’s Tale seemed to suggest the stories within.

He's often found a fan base with punk rockers, though the music underpinning his words can range from country to jazz to blues and beyond. That’s part of the charm: every song builds a world of its own, centered on his soulful, wry voice.

“Check this guy out if you dare.” So ran the last line of a profile titled “Johnny Dowd Slithers Onto Music Scene” back in 1999. That gives you a pretty decent idea of how Johnny Dowd’s music works — “slither” and “dare” being the key words. Johnny does both. In the traditions of Waits or Bukowski, he slithers into places most of us don’t imagine or see. They might be back alleys, back porches, or just a bar down the street, but wherever he goes he dares to sing out what he sees. Will you dare to listen?

Dowd conjures up characters with bluntness and an eye for telling details — a true writer’s songsmith. Perhaps that’s because he only came to the art after forty years of hard living. Even at that age, “I never wanted to be a songwriter,” he says. But when it became a matter of sink or swim, back around 1988, he dove into the deep end. “I was in a Memphis/Texas swamp blues band,” he says, “but then the singer quit. He was the only one who was enough of a musician to learn a song off a record and show it to us. I couldn't figure out how to do that! So I said, 'Fuck it' and started writing songs — just so we could play.”

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