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Johnny Dowd takes a walk on the bizarre side.
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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- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) March 3, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Miller, Steve June 17, 2000 700+ words
...resume is commercially viable enough: Johnny Dowd, Texas-born troubadour, weaned...living in upstate New York. But Mr. Dowd's musical world of homicide, hatred...and make you yearn for more. Mr. Dowd's warbling, creaking voice tackles...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Blackstock, Peter January 7, 2000 700+ words
It seems fitting Johnny Dowd is performing at the Tractor Tavern the...winter Wednesday residency at the club. Dowd, coincidentally, just released a new...get the wrong impression, however, Dowd's interpretation of the king of country...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Ehrbar, Joe October 18, 2002 700+ words
...P-I It took singer/songwriter Johnny Dowd nearly 50 years to finally cut his...critics and fans alike stunned by Dowd's singular style, convincing edge...delivery. It is obvious now that Dowd has had a lifetime's worth of music...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) October 25, 2002 700+ words
Byline: Mark Guarino Music critic Johnny Dowd with John Kimler and Buddahead, 10 p.m. today at...Southport Ave., Chicago. $10. (773) 525-2508. When Johnny Dowd released his debut album five years ago, he was 50 and...
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- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) December 15, 2006 700+ words
...High School offensive lineman Kris O'Dowd had been dodging questions about which...members hanging on his every word, O'Dowd -- one of the nation's top prospects...one was unbelievably difficult," O'Dowd said Thursday as stragglers crushed into...
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- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot December 4, 2005 700+ words
ARE MEN NECESSARY? MAUREEN DOWD Putnam. 338 pp. $25.95. BY SUSAN...by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is like being trapped in the collected...have to bring your own cosmopolitan. Dowd establishes this context when, early...
