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Johnny Dowd takes a walk on the bizarre side.

Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)

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Byline: Niz Proskocil

Jul. 27--If you like your music on the bizarre side, then Johnny Dowd's your guy.

The 58-year-old musician makes off-kilter, genre-blending songs about doomed, damaged and dysfunctional people. His songs are filled with dark -- and just plain weird -- imagery such as mechanical cockroaches chasing albino rats.

He's been called a "strange cat," "hipster-savant" and "genius." While those labels are debatable, one thing's for sure: Dowd is an open-minded musician whose songs are hard to pigeonhole.

A range of eclectic artists, from Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits to writers Charles Bukowski and Hunter Thompson, ...

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