Johnny Dowd, Wrong Side of Memphis - 49m 49s

Tracks & Durations

1. Murder	2:29
2. Papa, Oh, Papa	3:20
3. Ft. Worth, Texas	3:14
4. One Way	3:26
5. Just Like a Dog	3:35
6. Average Guy	2:45
7. Ballad of Frank and Jesse James	4:52
8. Idle Conversation	1:34
9. Wages of Sin	3:36
10. John Deere Yeller	2:22
11. Thanksgiving Day	4:00
12. Heavenly Feast	4:41
13. First There Was	5:42
14. I Don't Exist	1:39
15. Welcome Jesus	2:25

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Review

This Checkered Past debut may be the most willfully spooky album I've ever heard. The opening track, "Murder," sounds like it was sung through a pillow snuffing out Dowd's life, while the ghost of a Delta bluesman grooves and taunts from the shadows. Dowd doesn't play his instruments--squeeze box, pump organ, tambourine, warped acoustic, reverbed-to-death guitar--so much as he tortures them expertly. The results aren't pretty. But they are magnetic, and will fascinate followers of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, or Cormac McCarthy's hard-to-take messages from America's dark underbelly. --Roy Francis Kasten

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