Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

Raising a glass to singer/songwriter Johnny Dowd with a few songs accompanied by Amy LaVere & Will Sexton in Ithaca, NY. 

Get a vinyl copy of Johnny Dowd's latest album "Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know" right here. 

The haunting sound of Johnny Dowd envelopes the Monarch Tavern, Thursday

Spellbinding Ithaca-based singer/songwriter Johnny Dowd is joined by Easy Pieces & Kensington Hillbillys. Doors open at 8 pm. 

Johnny Dowd returns to Toronto for Monarch Tavern show Aug. 24

Johnny Dowd brings his songs from the darkside to the Monarch with Easy Pieces & Kensington Hillbillys – get yer tickets here. 

Have a slice of "Homemade Pie" with Johnny Dowd

Since it's Johnny Dowd's birthday today, we're enjoying Rik Van Iersel's video for Johnny's "Homemade Pie." Get the CD here.

Johnny Dowd releases his Porch Fest set digitally via Bandcamp

Get a copy of Johnny Dowd's recent Porch Fest performance in Ithaca, NY for just $5 (US) via Bandcamp right here. 

Johnny Dowd at Porch Fest track list:

Silk Scarf,Rapture,Jimmie,First There Was a Funeral,

Hope,Call Me the Wind,God Created Woman,Out for Blood,

Fire and Dust,Ate the Room for Lunch

Watch a 2015 Porch Fest performance followed by a 2021 show at Brookton's Market below. 

Watch the animated video for Johnny Dowd's "Call Me The Wind"

Robert Bolwijn's animated clip for Johnny Dowd's "Call Me The Wind" certainly deserves to win some awards. Check it out.

Johnny Dowd shared a video for "Homemade Pie"

Check out Rik Van Iersel's video for Johnny Dowd's "Homemade Pie," the title track off his new album available here. 

Watch Johnny Dowd's Tinnitist TV zoom chat

Ithaca-based singer/songwriter Johnny Dowd discusses his latest album Homemade Pie on Tinnitist TV. 

Here's the scoop...

Johnny Dowd is living proof that it's never too late to start all over again. The 73-year-old American troubadour didn't release his first album Wrong Side Of Memphis until he was nearly 50, and didn't even start playing guitar until he was in his 40s. Since those humble beginnings he hasn't looked back. And this late bloomer has certainly made up for lost time, releasing more than two dozen live and studio albums in as many years. Most of them feature his rough-hewn, idiosyncratic blend of alt-country, blues, southern soul and garage-rock — all topped with deadpan hickory-twang vocals and off-kilter, black-humoured lyrics about love, lust, family, death and religion. His latest album Homemade Pie, which came out on New Year's Day, is no exception. Recorded in his home studio with his longtime touring band, the back-to-basics affair features a batch of ramshackle nuggets about travelling salesmen, Trump, Jesus and Jerry Lewis — along with pie, of course. A few days after the album's release, the grizzled, slow-talking Dowd and I had a great, rambling Zoom chat about songwriting, recording, politics, his campaign to bring back postcards and plenty more. Enjoy.  

Get a copy of Johnny Dowd's new album Homemade Pie right here. 

Why not spend Christmas with Johnny Dowd

Johnny Dowd's limited-run Xmas EP comes hand decorated by the man himself. Grab a copy from his site right here. 

Listen to Johnny Dowd's insights on The Power Of The Dog on Joshua & Phoebe's Yell About Movies! podcast right here. 

90s Nostalgia: Johnny Dowd

Here's Johnny Dowd's 1999 recording of "Hell or High Water" released as single in Holland by Nicole Records. 

 

Johnny Dowd @ Buffalo's Mohawk Place, Saturday

Buffalo is just about as close to Toronto as Johnny Dowd is gonna get this year, so see Ithaca's hoodoo man at Mohawk Place Saturday night. 

Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

Raising a glass to Johnny Dowd on his day with two tracks off his great new Family Picnic album and one that ain't. Catch him on tour in April. 

Johnny Dowd on tour
April 6: Rotterdam (NL) - Koffie en Ambacht
April 8: London (UK) - The 100 Club
April 10: Durham (UK) - Launderette Sessions
April 11: Bristol (UK) - The Thunderbolt
April 12: Leek, Staffordshire (UK) - Foxlowe Arts Centre
April 13: Bovey Tracey (UK) - The Dolphin
April 14: Nottingham (UK) - Running Horse
April 15: Sheffield (UK) - Greystones
April 17: Lewes (UK) - Lewes Con Club
April 18: Liverpool (UK) - 81 Renshaw
April 19: Gent (BE) - Het Ijle Land
April 20: Zeist (NL) - De Peppel
April 21: Karlsruhe (DE) - Kohi
April 22: Helmond (NL) - Lokaal 42

Johnny Dowd @ The Horseshoe, Wednesday

Don't miss Johnny Dowd tonight performing songs off his latest album Twinkle, Twinkle after some truck stop coffee.

Johnny Dowd returns to Toronto for Horseshoe show May 2

Check out Johnny and crew performing "Freddie's Dead" and "White Dolomite" on his current "Feeling Bad" tour.

Watch Disco Sausage: A Film About Johnny Dowd

Mark Lotterman filmed Johnny Dowd while on tour in Europe in 2015. Here's what he captured. 

Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

Here's "Poor, But Proud" off Johnny's latest That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse available here.

Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

Do yourself a favour and check out Johnny Dowd's new album That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse.

Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

LINKS
site http://www.johnnydowd.com/

Happy Birthday Johnny Dowd!

LINK
site http://www.johnnydowd.com/

Johnny Dowd unveils No Regrets in Toronto

Why would the enjoyably bent cracker soul man Johnny Dowd pick Toronto of all places to premiere his creepy concept album No Regrets,  a typically off-kilter personal document of his fave female obsessions?

It could be the unseasonably balmy weather we're enjoying this week but something tells me that our man Johnny doesn't have much use for sunshine. No, I'm guessing it has more to do with Silver Dollar booker Dan Burke who sees in Dowd's troubling revelations the good and evil that once made rock 'n' roll a dangerously exciting proposition.

Well that, and Burke also needed at least one marquee act with a decent draw for the 12 midnight slot of his Canadian Music Week showcase on Friday at the Comfort Zone. Considering the rest of the line-up – Nick Doubleyou & the B Squad (1 am), Brave Little Toaster (11 pm), Cowgirl Choir (10 pm), Attagirl (9 pm) – you can understand Burke's desire to have Dowd serve as the anchor with Catl bashing away relentlessly between sets to further bolster the entertainment package. So Burke can now rest easier knowing that whatever happens the rest of the night, Dowd will deliver the goods at midnight with a preview of his scary good No Regrets (out April 2).

"The album is about girls and women I have know, imagined or seen on TV." explains Dowd. "I love them all. I used a couple of old 60s drum machines on the album because my long-time drummer, Willie B, was unavailable at the time we were tracking. I intended to replace the machines with live drumming, but instead, I blended the two. Man versus machine. Man versus woman. Me in an endless, maddening conversation with myself.

"I used some great female vocalists to sweeten the album. Tracking with them was hilarious. I’m particularly proud of the sounds and feel we got on this record. I’m always trying to take the music I grew up with (blues and R&B) and filter them through my own experiences. Otis Redding as imagined by Sartre. Of all my records, this one is by far the leanest. But probably not the meanest. I don’t think anyone was murdered in these songs.”


No Regrets (Mother Jinx)

1. Betty
2. Emily / Meryl
3. Billie
4. Sherry
5. Miranda
6. Susan
7. Rita
8. Juanita / Rita
9. Nancy
10. Ella
11. Abigail
12. Linda
13. Candy




Betty by Johnny Dowd



Tour Dates
* 03/23 The Comfort Zone (Canadian Music Festival), Toronto
* 04/21 Lot 10 - CD and vinyl release party, Ithaca, NY (w/ Teardrops)
* 05/03 Altstadt, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
* 05/04 Paard, The Hague, The Netherlands
* 05/07 Patronaat, Haarlem, The Netherlands
* 05/08 Q-Bus, Leiden, The Netherlands
* 05/09 DB's, Utrecht, The Netherlands
* 05/10 Cactus Muziekcentrum, Brugge, Belgium (Kamarama Festival)
* 05/11 Winston Kingdom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 05/14 El Lokal, Zurich Switzerland
* 05/15 Chelsea, Vienna, Austria
* 05/16 K4, Nurnberg, Germany
* 05/18 Bassy Club, Berlin, Germany
* 05/20 Harksheide, Norderstedt, Germany
* 05/21 Cafe Video, Ghent, BE
* 05/22 Kulturrampe, Krefeld, Germany
* 05/23 Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK/li>
* 05/24 Cluny, Newcastle, UK
* 05/25 King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
* 05/26 The Greystones, Sheffield, UK
* 05/27 The Windmill, Brixton, UK (afternoon and evening shows)
* 05/28 The Ruby Lounge, Manchester, UK
* 05/29 The Basement, York, UK


Sherry by Johnny Dowd


LINKS
Johnny Dowd http://www.johnnydowd.com/
Canadian Music Week http://www.cmw.net/