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Release Date: Feb 14, 2006; Lead Performance: Johnny Dowd; Genre: Rock
B+
Drawn to the shadows? Then you might run into Johnny Dowd an out-of-a-dimestore-novel character who started making albums eight years ago, at 50. Here Dowd continues crafting extraordinary Beefheartian Gothic-rock tales of the disenfranchised. There's plenty of his discomfiting growl and dark wit (''Momma snorting coke and eating a Moon pie'') on Cruel Words. But on his sixth disc his most tuneful and accessible there are raucous sing-alongs too, including one with the Mekons' Sally Timms and Jon Langford (''Drunk''). It's an outsider-art show come to life.
Posted Jun 23, 2006
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