Johnny Dowd: A Drunkard’s Masterpiece

By Matthew Fiander

This is just too negative, too shielded from hope, for its own good. Dowd constructs his characters' collective bitterness like a high wall, and leaves us no cracks with which to see through it to some humanity. [9 February 2009]

Johnny Dowd: Cruel Words

By Alan Brown

'Cruel Words' is an eerie treat of musical inventiveness from the dark hinterland of Americana. Exceptional! [1 September 2006]

Johnny Dowd: Temporary Shelter

By Andrew Gilstrap