Just in time for Helloween...

tentoze · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:29 pm

...comes

Hellwood~ Chainsaw of Life

Hellwood, population 3:

Johnny Dowd- he of the most sinister songs in the world, and a glare even when his eyes are shut

Willie B- he of wandering drum kit, banging skins for Dowd, Neko Case, etc.

Jim White- he of the songs of women serial killers, Corvairs in the yard, and static on the radio

Only 4 songs into a first spin of this and it absolutely kills.

Guard the children. Hide the good silver. Protect your spleen at all times.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:19 pm

Holy fucking Jesus I'm ordering this today so I can have nightmares through Easter.

tentoze · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:32 pm

14 bucks shipped from Dowd's website. Got here in 2 days.

Hegel · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:35 pm

i have absolutely know idea what this is. RIYL?

tentoze · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:50 pm

Couple of d/l's on this site. Dowd definitely is not for everyone.

http://songsillinoismp3.blogspot.com/2006/09/music-from-new-roots-supergroup.html

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

damn you tentoze...why couldn't you put johnny dowd in the thread title. I'm a huge fan of his and just found out about this bugger and ordered it. I was going to start a thread about it but then searched to see if there was a thread (see poptodd it is possible to search before posting)

For those not hooked yet:

NetRhythmns Wrote:

Two throaty voiced Southern gothic mavericks for the price of one, forged out of the Looking For The Wrong Eyed Jesus documentary this brings together both Johnny Dowd and Jim White with regular Dowd drummer Willie B for an album that hones and channels rather than dilutes their individual strengths.

As might be expected, shot through with biblical imagery the songs etch dark pictures of a hidden America devoid of not only God but the Devil too. A Man Loves His Wife may promise a tale of tenderness but instead you get a tenderly musically brushed portrait of a self-loathing drunk lost in weakness and failure, a disillusioned wife bone-weary with trying and a loveless marriage where the fireworks of love had sputtered out and suicide seems the only solution.

The swamp funky God's Back Pocket slouches through a tale of a con artist preacher, a sonic raging Man In A Plaid Suit tells of a 'frightened obscure man' who, a mixture of 'violence and shame' who sees a world washed in sin and only takes his hands out of his suit pockets at night, the spooky voodoo skewed nonsense rhyming pop of Spider In The Bed conjures all sort of sexual creepiness and on the deliberate talking blues funk The Good Die Young a guilt-ridden man has a vision of the best friend soldier of fortune whose death he caused when he fled a battle.

Often evocative of a weirded out Talking Heads (Ten commandments even borrows a riff from Crosseyed & Painless), it's a clanking, stylistically switchbacking affair that veers between extremes from the punk thrashing staccato jabs of Chicken Shack and the Zappa dance funk Alien Tongue to the molasses slow spoken Devil's music gospel Thomas Dorsey and the stripped back lonesome harmonica and banjo of the bittersweet stained romantic dreams of the closing Dream On. Not always an easy listen, but most definitely an intriguing one

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:42 am

Sorry about that, billy g- but I think you'll find it's a keeper fo sho.

FT · **Posted:** Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:00 pm

HOW DID I MISS THIS THREAD?!?!?!?

SNDSPCORMEDFIREPLSKTHX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tentoze · **Posted:** Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:14 pm

I'm in England and France until 12/9, so unfortunately, I can't help much on that front right now, FT...

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:24 pm

Helloween was one pof my favorite bands back in the day.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:05 pm

tentoze Wrote:

I'm in England and France until 12/9, so unfortunately, I can't help much on that front right now, FT...

I'm sure saying this never gets old.

I may have to check this out. Dowd was the most bizarre thing in "Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus" and there were many bizarre things in that flick.

FT · **Posted:** Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:21 pm

tentoze Wrote:

I'm in England and France until 12/9, so unfortunately, I can't help much on that front right now, FT...

tentoze isn't the only one capable of firing this over to me, so make with the Hellwood, you bastards!

Just in time for Helloween...

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