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Temporary Shelter
While Johnny Dowd seemed like a throwback to the era of Appalachian murder ballads on his 1997 debut, Wrong Side of Memphis, his third album finds the late-blooming, 52-year-old artist extending his stylistic reach. His lyrics continue to probe the psyche's darkest recesses--the feverish obsessions with death, Jesus, and the disease of love--but the settings range from the nightmarish disco of "Vengeance Is Mine" to the surf beat of "Big Wave" to the cinematic expanse of "Angel Eyes." ("Zombies prowl the streets," sings the monotone Dowd. "Dead souls fill the bars.") With his voice evoking a private hell, the ethereal innocence of singer Kim Sherwood-Caso offers glimmers of redemption. Dowd's dread-laced primitivism might strike some listeners as oddly funny--unsettlingly so--but this singular artist sounds deadly serious throughout. --Don McLeese
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Tracks| 1 | Vengeance Is Mine | | 2 | Big Wave | | 3 | Cradle to the Grave | | 4 | Golden Rule | | 5 | Hell or High Water | | 6 | Hide Away | | 7 | Angel Eyes | | 8 | Sky Above, Mud Below | | 9 | Stumble and Fall | | 10 | Lost Avenue | | 11 | Death Comes Knocking |
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