Johnny Dowd “Wake Up The Snakes”

New Johnny Dowd album “Wake Up The Snakes” on Munich Records 5th of April 2010 out!

“Wonderfully warped yet remarkably accessible.”
— Sylvie Simmons, MOJO

“If Willie Nelson turned into Mr. Hyde, he’d be Johnny Dowd. Backwoods gothic tales of love, death, and a perverse God arrive with a twang and a junkyard clatter, reaching for laughs that grow uneasy.”
— Jon Pareles, New York Times

“There’s nobody quite like Johnny Dowd, a dapper 60-year-old Texan absurdist who recorded his first album 10 years ago. . . . like Charles Bukowski backed by a jazz-country funk shuffle. It’s really quite brilliant, putting to shame artists half his age.”
— Peter Shepherd, Uncut

Johnny Dowd European tour:

May 11: Eindhoven, NL - Altstadt; with Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
May 12: The Hague, NL - Paard van Troje; with Mark Lotterman
May 13: Haarlem, NL - Patronaat
May 14: Utrecht, NL - Ekko; with Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
May 15: Belgium or Germany (tba)
May 16: Belgium or Germany (tba)
May 17: Nijmegen, NL - Merleyn
May 18: Rotterdam, NL - Watt; with Stuurbaard Bakkebaard
May 19: Zurich, CH - El Lokal
May 20: Vienna, AU - Chelsea
May 21: Basel, CH - The Satisfactory
May 22: Neuchatel, CH - Queen Kong Club
May 24: Nancy, FR - Festival Musique Action
May 26: Sheffield, UK – Boardwalk
May 27: Norwich, UK - Arts Centre
May 28: Leicester, UK - The Musician
May 29: York, UK - Duchess of York
May 30: London, UK - The Borderline