Nashville musicians Morgan Ames, Zac Caffrey, Travis Caffrey and Michael Sadler, are huge fans of Johnny Dowd. Travis and Michael were thrilled when he sang and played on a song on their Dead Dads album by their avant-garde garage noise duo The Chewers in 2015.
Fast forward to 2016. One of the perks of Johnny's crowdfunding campaign for his album Execute American Folklore was a song written for you if you handed over 1000 dollars. They hadn't that kind of money lying around, but came up with a good idea: a campaign to raise the fund by offering contributors to write a song about them. They came close - 760 dollars, and because Johnny Dowd loved the idea he wrote the song anyway, naming it Mouthhole, after the underground basement music venue where the four musicians put on shows in Nashville.
They rounded up all 36 songs they recorded for an album, Name Songs (Go Go Johnny Go Go). None of the tracks breaks the one minute barrier, but each of them feels like a complete song. Each of the contributors is honoured with an alternate back story loaded with dark humour and a bit of violence. Recommended if you like Primus, Can, Tom Waits, and the Residents.
Name Songs (Go Go Johnny Go Go) is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from their website.
Tracks:- Nordista Freeze
- Jennifer Edmondson
- Gabe Stallman
- Willey Seville
- Larry Stallman
- Dakota Jernigan
- Jade Dowd
- Ted Kindig
- Jyl Dowd
- Ziona Riley
- Hope Headden
- Sperry Whitewa
- Christy Hartman
- MPG Experts
- Andrew Martin
- Kim Sherwood-Caso
- Rachelle Smith-Stallman
- Yellow Salamand'r
- Maddie Ryan
- Adam Terry
- Brad Edmondson
- Bob Corstad
- Kayla Lemons
- Jared Martin
- Jacquelyn Hall
- Paul-Johan
- Will Redmond
- Laura Felts
- Drew Wilson
- Izzy and Laura
- Grace Wegener
- Rebecca Lyne
- Melissa Tavvs
- Yer Maw
- Anonymous
- Johnny Dowd
HCTF review of The Chewers' Dead Dads.
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