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Cemetery Shoes by Johnny Dowd
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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
11 tracks | 38 minutes
Released Oct 2004
on Bongo Beat Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Brother Jim lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Brother Jim lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Brother Jim
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 garden of delight lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 garden of delight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 garden of delight
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On the back road to Hell's front door, Johnny Dowd is the point when you know there's no turning back. His tangled cobweb of dark tales bursting with the debris of life's lost dreams, broken hearts and everything left behind by sinners on the run.
Editorial review
Despite Johnny Dowd's fixation with death, the 56-year old guitarist has inexplicable appeal on his fifth album, Cemetary Shoes. Beneath all of the bloodstained clothes is a man with superb axe prowess and a Nick Cave-meets-Tom Waits-meets-Tom Verlaine-vocal approach. "Brother Jim" is an offbeat, twangy rock/blues concoction that's as delightfully fun as it is peculiar, "Garden of Delight" is a blistering stomper and "Whisper in a Nag's Ear" is an eerie jazz-tinged offering. If the latter's chorus, "You're carrying a coffin!," makes it a must for all future Halloween parties, the creepy, Cramps-ian white trash barnburner "Rest in Peace" is equally worthy. At times, Dowd's obsession starts to grate -- specifically on "Dear John Letter" where frenzied percussion uncomfortably meshes with his nightmare-inducing spoken word -- but often enough there is magic in the midst of his morbidity. ~ John D. Luerssen, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Tall tales of adulterers, convicts, cross-dressers and church-going sinners unravel themselves over
a soundtrack of rockabilly, blues, and country.
Guitar Magazine. UK
Americana's psycho...wonderfully warped... 4 stars! MOJO. UK
His cracked larynx, jagged guitar & spooky organ eking out gothic tales laced with black humour.
Time Out London. UK
On the back road to Hell's front door, Johnny Dowd is the point when you know there's no turning back. His tangled cobweb of dark tales bursting with the debris of life's lost dreams, broken hearts and everything left behind by sinners on the run. Johnny Dowd albums are like a variety show of death, despair, and mutual suffering... rendered with a sly humour, the kind of wry smile you see through the executioner's mask as the clock strikes midnight.
Johnny Dowd's 50 year overnight success story is already folklore.
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