Johnny Dowd

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"Check this guy out if you dare” Johnny Dowd’s Unflinching Eye Takes in Tales of Darkest America “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? “A moving man from Ithaca, New York, embarks on the scariest ride of the year in this homemade work of genius,” Chris Morris wrote of Dowd’s debut in Billboard. By the next year, with Johnny turning 50, he released his second album, Pictures from Life’s Other Side. Jon Pareles of the New York Times was a fan, writing “If Willie Nelson turned into Mr. Hyde, he’d be Johnny Dowd. Backwoods Gothic tales of love, death, and a perverse God arrive with a twang and a junkyard clatter, reaching for laughs that grow uneasy.” “I wouldn't call it inspiration,” he says of what drives him. “I just call it perspiration. As a musician, you’ve got a session to do. They're gonna count the tune in and there you go. You're not waiting to get inspired. You gotta fuckin do it. It's not like you're gotta wait. That's the way I feel when I'm writing.” Line-up: Johnny Dowd, Amy LaVere, Will Sexton and Mike Stark. http://www.johnnydowd.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JohnnyDowdOfficial https://www.instagram.com/johnny.dowd/ https://soundcloud.com/johnny-dowd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvuSVoHU8p3v96in5CYFY3A YouTube-fan site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV9VzxaZ1beSmvQOPtfKsog https://johnnydowd1.bandcamp.com/releases Scene: Klubben, Røverstaden Doors: 19:00 Showstart kl. 20:00 Aldersgrense: 18 år Saloppsett: Sittende og stående

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