Wow! This was an easy choice. I’ve been literally startled by the quality of Johnny Dowd’s last two releases.
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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 hit with The Box Tops. He’s Tom Waits, if Waits never made it and was still a barfly in Ensenada. And he’s Nick Cave without the long face (and occasional pretension).
“Yolanda” is a swampy rock thing that describes a woman and her abusive father (who eventually gets what he deserves). It’s from the new record called Wake Up The Snakes. A perfect title for a record that at times recalls a Pentecostal revival. Buy this here via Johnny’s site.
Johnny Dowd from the film “Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus”
Also from “”Searching For…”