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I en alder av nærmere
50 år ga Johnny Dowd ut sin første plate "Wrong Side of Memphis" i
1998. Hans skranglete stil bryter på mange måter med tradisjonell rock
selv om hans musikk tydelig er basert på amerikanske stilarter.
Musikken snubler rundt hans umusikalske stemme, vridde gitarspill og
sære synther. Han kan neppe kalles en stor vokalist men stemmen passer
likevel utmerket til hans personlige sanger. Sangene er ofte svært
melodiske men gjerne skjult av merkelige arrangementer og overraskende
overganger. Tekstene er både paranoide og poetiske men samtidig
jordnære. I 2006 dannet han bandet "Hellwood".
Bandets første utgivelse, "Chainsaw of Life" følger i hovedsak
Dowds kjente uttrykksformer, både musikalsk og tekstmessig. Johnny Dowd er en av mange artister jeg kan takke Olav
for. Det var han som presenterte meg for denne snurrige
mannen en fredagskveld i 1999.
Et samarbeid med Jackie Leven resulterte i albumet "Oh
What A Blow That Phantom Dealt Me" i 2006. Kun spredte
tilløp til god underholdning på denne utgivelsen. |
Nytt på denne
side:
Wrong
Side of Memphis
(1998) CD
4/5
 |
1.
Murder
2. Papa, Oh, Papa
3. Ft. Worth, Texas
4. One Way
5. Just Like A Dog
6. Average Guy
7. Ballad of Frank And Jesse James
8. Idle Conversation
9. Wages of Sin
10. John Deere Yeller
11. Thanksgiving Day
12. Heavenly Feast
13. First There Was
14. I Don't Exist
15. Welcome Jesus |
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Pictures
From Life's Other Side
(1999) CD
4/5
 |
1.
A Picture From Life's Other Side
2. Worried Mind
3. Ballad of Lonnie Wolf
4. Hope You Don't Mind
5. God Created Woman
6. Blood Evidence
7. The Girl Who Made Me Sick
8. Greasy Hands
9. Vietnam
10. Just Because
11. No Woman's Flesh But Hers
12. Bad Memories
13. Mystery Woman
14. Butcher's Son
15. Wish I'd Been Honest
16. (no title) |
|
Temporary Shelter
(2000) CD
4/5
Europeisk utgivelse. "Planet
Happiness" mangler på den amerikanske utgaven.
 |
1.
Stumble And Fall
2. Vengeance Is Mine
3. Cradle To The Grave
4. Big Wave
5. Hell or High Water
6. Angel Eyes
7. Golden Rule
8. Hideaway
9. Sky Above, Mud Below
10. Planet Happiness
11. Death Comes Knocking |
|
Temporary Shelter
(2000) CD
4/5
Amerikansk
utgivelse - signert.
"Lost Avenue"
mangler på den europeiske utgaven.
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1.
Vengeance Is Mine
2. Big Wave
3. Cradle To The Grave
4. Golden Rule
5. Hell Or High Water
6. Hideaway
7. Angel Eyes
8. Sky Above, Mud Below
9. Stumble And Fall
10. Lost Avenue
11. Death Comes Knocking |
|
Live
(2000) CD
?/5
 |
1. Golden
Rule
2. Worried Mind
3. Vengeance Is Mine
4. One Way
5. Hell Or High Water
6. Mystery Woman
7. Butcher's Son
8. Lost Avenue
9. Stupid Song |
|
Down In The Valley
(2000) CD
Kun solgt i
forbindelse med turnéer og promotering. Den er ikke utgitt med
bildecover.
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1.
Betrayal
2. Public Saxaphone
3. The Similarity of Opposites
4. Winds of Insignificance
5. Colt .45
6. Regrets, I Have A Few
7. Tractor
8. Ho Chi Minh
9. The Mighty Darkness of Love |
|
Hell Or High Water
(2000) 7" Single
 |
1. Hell
Or High Water
2. Divorce, American Style |
|
The
Pawnbroker's Wife
(2002) CD
4/5
 |
1.
I Love You
2. Rose Tattoo
3. Monkey Run
4. On Shakey Ground We Stand
5. Bliiy Blu
6. Virginia Beach
7. Judgement Day
8. Jingle Bells
9. Separate Beds
10. Sweeter Than Honey
11. King of Emptiness
12. Woody Guthrie Blues
13. True Love
14. Sleeping In The Grass |
|
Wire Flowers: More Songs
From The Wrong Side of Memphis
(2003) CD
?/5
Denne cd'en inneholder gamle innspillinger helt tilbake
til 1996. Mange av disse sangene har tidligere blitt utgitt på
de første albumene, men i andre versjoner.
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1.
Wire Flowers
2. The Pawnbroker's Wife
3. Monkey Run
4. I See Horses
5. Black Rain
6. Judgement Day
7. Ain't Got A Dime
8. Rockefeller Eyes
9. Just Because
10. Rolling And Tumbling Trilogy
11. Woody Guthrie Blues
12. The Butcher's Son
13. A Change of Heart |
|
Cemetery
Shoes
(2004) CD
3,5/5
 |
1.
Brother Jim
2. Garden of Delight
3. Whisper In A Nag's Ear
4. Rest In Peace
5. Wedding Dress
6. Shipwreck
7. Dear John Letter
8. Easter Sunday
9. Christmas Is Just Another Day
10. Dylan's Coat
11. Rip Off |
|
Live At
The Night & Day Café - Manchester, UK
(2004) CD
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1. Praise
God
2. A Picture From Life's Other Side
3. Papa, Oh, Papa
4. Fort Worth, Texas
5. From The Cradle To The Grave
6. Wild Is The Wind
7. God Created Woman
+ Bonus track:
8. I Crawled Up The Rat's Ass |
|
Cruel Words
(2006) CD
3,5/5
 |
1. House
of Pain
2. Miracles Never Happen
3. Praise God
4. Unwed Mother
5. Cradle of Lies
6. Ding Dong
7. Final Encore
8. Wilder Than The Wind '66
9. Drunk
10. Poverty House
11. Corner Laundromat
12. Anxiety
13. World of Him
14. Johnny B. Goode |
|
A Drunkard's
Masterpiece
(2008)
CD ?/5
 |
Opus I
1. Everybody Wants
To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die
2.
Danger/Blind Painter Paints Black
3. Random Thoughts
4. Off Broadway
5. Unintended Consequences
6. Infidelity/Gargon vs. The Unicorn
Opus II
7. Putting
Lipstick On A Pig
8. C'est La Vie
9.
Johnny's Got The Mic
10. Easy Money
11. Union of Idiots
Opus III
12. Thou Shalt Not
Covet Thy Neighbor's Ass
13. Caboose
14. Adultress
15. Things A Woman Needs
16. Maybe Brazil
17. Coda |
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Hellwood
Chainsaw of Life
(2006) CD
?/5
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1. Thank
You, Lord
2. Fireworks Factory
3. A Man Loves His Wife
4. Alien Tongue
5. God's Back Pocket
6. Chicken Shack
7. Spider In The Bed
8. Thomas Dorsey
9. The Good Die Young
10. Man In A Plain Suit
11. Ten Commandments
12. Dream On |
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Jackie Leven
>
Jackie
Leven
Oh What A Blow That
Phantom Dealt Me
(2006) CD ?/5
Johnny Dowd
bidrar med vokalinnslag på kutt 2 og 6 i tillegg til å ha oppgaven som
historieforteller på kutt 10.
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1. Vox
Humana
2. One Man One Guitar
3. Another Man's Rain
4. Kings of Infinite Space
5. Childish Blues
6. I've Been Everywhere
7. The Long Hard Field
8. The Silver In Her Crucifix (Homage To Judee Sill)
9. Here Come The Urban Ravens (Homage To Kevin Coyne)
10. The Skaters
11. Mellow My Madness |
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