“A Drunkard’s Masterpiece is a creative car crash of Americana, beatnik rock, poetry, prose, jazz rock, rap, screaming metal guitar, retro pop, spoken word and country noir.
The whole thing was recorded in three days, on 8 track tape, live in the studio...
The lyrics, like the music, are classic Dowd - sex, marriage, more sex, adultery, original sin, unoriginal sin, God, Mary, Jesus, more adultery, death, love, masturbation.”
- Sylvie Simmons, Mojo, 4 STARS

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Four musicians. Eight tracks. Eight microphones. Three opuses. Three days.

This is Johnny Dowd’s new record, A Drunkard’s Masterpiece. The songs, welded and mangled together, fondle every style from metal/weird country (“Infidelity/Gargon vs. the Unicorn”) to jazz (“Random Thoughts”) to instrumental funk (“Union of Idiots”).

“I wanted to do an album that was a combination of variety show and soul revue. In the mix of styles, you can see my take on American music. Also, by running the songs together rather than having silenc