Body of Work and Lyrics

ALBUMS

Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know (vinyl)
2023 Brightspark Records

1. Another Mule
2. Is Heaven Real
3. Ice Pick
4. Pillow
5. Shook Up
6. Hope
7. L.S.D.
8. Fire and Dust
9. Black and Shiny Crow

 

 

Homemade Pie
2022 Mother Jinx Records

1. Homemade Pie
2. Out For Blood
3. Silk Scarf
4. Rise Up
5. Rose
6. Rick Ross
7. Uncle Jimmy
8. Call Me the Wind
9. Ladies
10. Shack
11. Gone
12. Dolomite Redux
13. Do Me Do

XMAS Compilation
EP 2021 Mother Jinx Records

1. Christmas is Just Another Day (Pawnbrokers Wife)
2. Death Comes Knocking (Temporary Shelter)
3. Jingle Bells (Pawnbrokers Wife)
4. Separate Beds (Pawnbrokers Wife)
5. Silent Night (previously unreleased)

Live at Grassroots 2006
2019 Mother Jinx Records

1. Poverty House
2. Linoleum Floor
3. Miracles Never Happen
4. King Of The Jews
5. Uncle Willie
6. The Good Die Young
7. Drunk
8. Tzar (3)
9. Don’t Drink The Water
10. Demons And Goats
11. Ding Dong
12. God Created Woman

Family Picnic
2019 Mother Jinx Records

1 Hoodoo
2 The Man of Your Dreams
3 Vicksburg
4 Shameless
5 Walking the Floor
6 Stuttering Wind
7 Family Picnic
8 Dream On
9 Four Gray Walls
10 Conway Twitty
11 Let’s Have a Party
12 Little Jimmy
13 Back End of Spring
14 Thomas Dorsey

Twinkle Twinkle
2018 Mother Jinx Records

1. Execute American Folklore, Again
2. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
3. The Cuckoo
4. Trouble in Mind
5. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
6. St. James Infirmary Blues
7. Red River Valley
8. Rock of Ages
9. John the Revelator
10. Tom Dooley
11. House of the Rising Sun
12. Oh, My Darling, Clementine
13. Job 17:11-17

Execute American Folklore
2016 Mother Jinx Records

1. Unease and Deviance
2. 3.29.48
3. Last laugh
4. Sexual Revolution
5. Mr. Muggles
6. Rhumba in the Park
7. Whiskey Ate My brain
8. Funkalicious
9. Modern Woman
10. Freddie
11. Brains-a-Flame
12. Count Your Blessings
13. Execute American Folklore
14. A World Without Me

Neon Baptist
2016 Mother Jinx Records
(Photo of Indie GoGo special edition)

Volume One:

1. Sunny Days
2. Shiny Drool
3. God Created Woman
4. Spanish Fly
5. Silent Night
6. Tribal Lips
7. Grey Walls
8. Presbyterian Punk
9. Haunt Intro
10. Plastic Shoes
11. Lester
12. Black Rain
13. Uncle Willy
14. Empty Buildings
15. Washita
16. T-Shirts

Volume Two
1. Paralyzed
2. Impossible Dream
3. Grinning
4. Vietnam
5. True Love
6. Shirley
7. Presbyterian Wedding Bells
8. Old Plastic
9. Wages of Sin
10. Daddy
11. Female Jesus
12. Slow Tribal
13. Tired Words
14. Alien Tongue
15. Amazing Grace
16. Break Down

1953 -Johnny Dowd/Time Goes By – Mark Lotterman (vinyl)
2015 Seven Shooter Music

 

 

 

That’s My Wife on the Back of Your Horse
2015 Mother Jinx Records

1. That’s Your Wife On The Back Of My Horse
2. White Dolomite
3. Cadillac Hearse
4. The Devil Don’t Bother Me
5. Empty Purse
6. Why
7. Sunglasses
8. Nasty Mouth
9. Words Are Birds
10. My Old Flame
11. Dear John Letter
12. Female Jesus
13. Poor, But Proud
14. Teardrops

Johnny Dowd ‎– Live in Morgantown
Released:2014, recorded 2002 Mother Jinx Records 

1. Pawnbroker’s Wife
2. Separate Beds
3. Big Wave
4. Billy Blu
5. Jingle Bells Written-By – James Lord Pierpont
6. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me) Written-By – D. Robertson*, N. Cogane*, S. Mysels*
7. Lost Avenue
8. Vietnam (instrumental)
9. I Love You
10. On Shaky Ground We Stand
11. First There Was A Funeral
12. Vengeance Is Mine
13. Mystery Woman
14. Murder

Do the Gargon
Summer 2013 Mother Jinx Records

1. Gargon Gets all Biblical
2. Shaquille
3. Nancy Sinatra
4. Cargon Knocks
5. Pretty Boy
6. Metal Turkey
7. Girl in a Suitcase
8. Gargon’s Disco Balls
9. Pussywhipped
10. Just to Touch Her Cheek
11. Butterflies and Unicorns
12. Do the Gargon

No Regrets
Spring 2012 Mother Jinx Records

1. Betty
2. Rita
3. Susan
4. Juanita/Rita
5. Linda
6. Abigail
7. Billie
8. Sherry
9. Ella
10. Candy
11. Miranda
12. Emily/Meryl
13. Nancy

Lower Manhattan/Bozo (vinyl)
2012 Angry Mom Records

 

 

More or Less
2010 Zylaxi Records
(poems, limited release of 44)

1. Halloween
2. Pearls
3. On The Road To Columbia
4. Metal Fingers
5. Black Nanny’s Revenge
6. Black Nanny’s Prayer
7. Black Nanny Speaks
8. Buzzards Or Lizards
9. The Empty Belly Of God
10. Empty Purse
11. A Festival Of Silence
12. Wrong Side Of The Tracks
13. Video    Johnny Dowd: The Six Strung Witness

Wake Up The Snakes
2010 Munich Records

1. Yolanda
2. Lies
3. Howling Wolf Blues
4. Babylon, PA
5. Hello Happiness
6. Swamp Woman
7. Me and Mary Lou
8. Time
9. Words Of Love
10. Demons and Goats
11. Fat Joey Brown
12. Voices
13. Organ Grinder

Ratten Spiegel
CD-R of live show at Ratten Spiegel, Freiburg, Germany, 2002
2009 self-released

1. Heavenly Feast
2. Worried Mind
3. Vengeance is Mine
4. Cradle to the Grave
5. I Love You
6. Judgment Day
7. Billy Blu
8. Jingle Bells
9. Jack Spratt / Butcher’s Son / Welcome Jesus

Johnny Dowd Live at Schuba’s 2000
Recorded March 22, 2000 at Schuba’s, Chicago, IL
Released December 19, 2008 online as a free download

1. Pictures From Life’s Other Side
2. Worried Mind
3. Hell Or High Water
4. Sky Above, Mud Below
5. Angel Eyes
6. Stumble And Fall
7. Ft. Worth, Texas
8. Hideaway
9. Mystery Woman
10. No Woman’s Flesh But Hers

A Drunkard’s Masterpiece
2008 Munich Records
2008 Bongo Beat Records

1. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die
2. Danger/Blind Painter Paints Black
3. Random Thoughts
4. Off Broadway
5. Unintended Consequences
6. Infidelity/Gargon vs. the Unicorn
7. Putting lipstick on a pig
8. C’est La Vie
9. Johnny’s Got the Mic
10. Easy Money
11. Union of Idiots
12. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass
13. Caboose
14. Adultress
15. Things A Woman Needs
16. Maybe Brazil
17. Coda

Hellwood: Chainsaw of Life (With Jim White and Willie B)
2006 Munich Records

1. Thank You, Lord
2. Fireworks Factory
3. A Man Loves His Wife
4. Alien Tongue
5. God’s Back Pocket
6. Chicken Shack
7. Spider in the Bed
8. Thomas Dorsey
9. The Good Die Young
10. Man in a Plaid Suit
11. Ten Commandments
12. Dream On

Cruel Words
2006 Munich Records
2006 Bongo Beat Records

1. House Of Pain
2. Miracles Never Happen
3. Praise God
4. Unwed Mother
5. Cradle of Lies
6. Ding Dong (full length mp3)
7. Final Encore
8. Wilder Than the Wind ’66
9. Drunk
10. Poverty House
11. Corner Laundromat
12. Anxiety
13. World of Him
14. Johnny B. Goode

Johnny Dowd: Live at the Night & Day Cafe, Manchester, UK
2005 self-released

1. Praise God
2. A Picture From Life’s Other Side
3. Papa, Oh, Papa
4. Fort Worth, Texas
5. From the Cradle to the Grave
6. Wild Is the Wind
7. God Created Woman
   Bonus Track: I Crawled Up the Rat’s Ass

Cemetery Shoes
2004 Munich Records
2004 Bongo Beat Records

1. Brother Jim
2. Garden of Delight
3. Whisper in a Nag’s Ear
4. Rest in Peace
5. Wedding Dress
6. Shipwreck
7. Dear John Letter
8. Easter Sunday
9. Christmas is Just Another Day
10. Dylan’s Coat
11. Rip Off

Hi Girls featuring Johnny Dowd – Nobody’s Whore
2004 self-released

1. Black Nanny’s Revenge
2. The King Is Dead
3. Poem  (lyrics by Cesar Vallejo)
4. Dang (Instr.)
5. Too Much Kansas For Words
6. Somebody Else’s Pants (lyrics by Rudy Ray Moore)
7. Black Nanny’s Prayer
8. Dang Dong (Instr.)
9. Dylan’s Coat
10. Girls, Girls, Girls
11. Xmas Is Just Another Day
12. Dang Dong Ding (Instr)
13. Black Nanny’s Revenge
14. Thank You

Wire Flowers: More Songs from the Wrong Side of Memphis
2003 Munich Records

1. Wire Flowers
2. The Pawnbroker’s Wife
3. Monkey Run
4. I See Horses
5. Black Rain
6. Judgement Day
7. Ain’t Got a Dime
8. Rockefeller Eyes
9. Just Because
10. Rolling and Tumbling Trilogy
11. Woody Guthrie Blues
12. The Butcher’s Son
13. A Change of Heart

The Pawnbroker’s Wife
2002 Munich Records
2002 Catamount
2002 Glitterhouse

1. I Love You
2. Rose Tattoo
3. Monkey Run
4. On Shakey Ground We Stand
5. Billy Blu
6. Virginia Beach
7. Judgement Day
8. Jingle Bells
9. Separate Beds
10. Sweeter Than Honey
11. King of Emptiness
12. Woody Guthrie Blues
13. True Love
14. Sleeping in the Grass

Johnny Dowd Live
2001 self-released

1. Golden Rule
2. Worried Mind
3. Vengeance Is Mine
4. One Way
5. Thanksgiving Day
6. Hell or High Water
7. Mystery Woman
8. Butcher’s Son
9. Lost Avenue
10. Stupid Song

Mother Love/Daddy’s Girl (vinyl)
2001 Sub Pop 

 

 

Temporary Shelter
2001 Koch Records

Track sequence of US release:

1. Vengeance is Mine
2. Big Wave
3. Cradle to the Grave
4. Golden Rule
5. Hell or High Water
6. Hideaway
7. Angel Eyes
8. Sky Above, Mud Below
9. Stumble and Fall
10. Lost Avenue (U.S. release only)
11. Death Comes Knocking

Temporary Shelter
2000 Munich Records
2000 Glitterhouse Records

1. Stumble And Fall
2. Vengeance Is Mine
3. Cradle To The Grave
4. Big Wave
5. Hell Or High Water
6. Angel Eyes
7. Golden Rule
8. Hideaway
9. Sky Above, Mud Below
10. Planet Happiness
11. Death Comes Knocking

Hell or High Water/Divorce American Style
2000 Nicole Records (div. of Munich Records),Vinyl

Down In The Valley
2000 self-released

1. Betrayal
2. Public Saxaphone
3. The Similarity of Opposites
4. Winds of Insignificance
5. Colt .45
6. Regrets, I Have A Few
7. Tractor
8. Ho Chi Minh
9. The Mighty Darkness of Love

Pictures from Life’s Other Side
1999 Munich Records
1999 Koch Records
1999 Glitterhouse Records

1. A Picture from Life’s Other Side
2. Worried Mind
3. Ballad of Lonnie Wolf
4. Hope You Don’t Mind
5. God Created Woman
6. Blood Evidence
7. The Girl Who Made Me Sick
8. Greasy Hands
9. Vietnam
10. Just Because
11. No Woman’s Flesh But Hers
12. Bad Memories
13. Mystery Woman
14. Butcher’s Son
15. Wish I’d Been Honest
16. (hidden track)

Johnny Dowd’s Worried Mind
1999 Koch Records ‎

1. Worried Mind
2. Hell Or High Water
3. Another Stupid Song
4. A Picture From Life’s Other Side (words By Hank Williams)
5. A Picture From Life’s Other Side (Demo Version) (words by Hank Williams)

Johnny Dowd Band, The ‎– Live At The Haunt  (cassette) 1998Seven-Shooter Music

1. Just Like A Dog
2. The Nag’s Ear
3. Papa, Oh Papa
4. Ballad Of Frank And Jesse James
5. John Deere Yeller
6. Beans And Rice
7. Heavenly Feast
8. One Way
9. I Don’t Exist
10. Instrumental
11. Half A Man

Wrong Side of Memphis
self released
1998 Checkered Past Records
1998 Koch
1998 Munich Records

1. Papa, Oh, Papa
2. Ft. Worth, Texas
3. One Way
4. Just Like A Dog
5. Average Guy
6. Ballad Of Frank And Jesse James
7. Idle Conversation
8. Wages Of Sin
9. John Deere Yeller
10. Thanksgiving Day
11. Heavenly Feast
12. First There Was
13. I Don’t Exist
14. Welcome Jesus

Wrong Side of Memphis
1995 self released cassette

Side A

1. Visit With Son House
2. Murder
3. Papa,Oh Papa
4. Ft. Worth Texas
5. Welcome Jesus
6. One Way
7. Just Like A Dog
8. Boney Fingers

Side B

1. Wages of Sin
2. John Deere
3. Heavenly Feast
4. Thanksgiving Day
5. First There Was a Funeral
6. Ballad of Jesse James

Poverty House – Neon Baptist
1994 cassette

****tracks pending***

Live 3 – Neon Baptist 1993 cassette

Side A
Shameless Words
Jambalaya
Parched Earth
Awful Yellow Light
Poverty House

Side B
Love in Vain
Rolling and Tumbling
Let’s Have a Party
Yolanda

Live 2/Crowbait -Neon Baptist
1992 cassette

***tracks pending***

Live- Neon Baptist
1990 cassette live album

***tracks pending***