PIGSHIT: EIGHT QUESTIONS For JOHNNY DOWD
EIGHT QUESTIONS For JOHNNY DOWD
My drop-down all-time number one Gothic American moving-man-turned-guitar-slinger has spent the past decade producing eight of the greatest albums I hope you've ever heard, beginning with 1998's beyond sublime “Wrong Side Of Memphis” and now his most recent, “A Drunkard's Masterpiece.” Which certainly is.
Today, thanks to the marvels of electric mail, Johnny consented to parlay my regular Eight Questions, and although he may well be a creature of frighteningly few words, you'll have to agree he sure knows how to make each and every single one count:
1. "Munsters" or "Addams Family": Which one's for you, and Why?
NEITHER ONE. “MY THREE SONS.”
2. Who in the world, living or dead, would you most like to play a game of “Twister" with?
JOHNNY ACE.
3. How many Sid King & The Five Strings records do you own?
ZERO.
4. If you had been working the front gate at Graceland that night back in '76 when a drunken Jerry Lee Lewis showed up, shotgun in hand, to "put that damn Elvis outta his mis'ry", what would you have done?
MY DUTY TO GOD AND COUNTRY.
5. "Ginger" or "Mary-Ann": Which one's for you, and for How Long?
BOTH. FOREVER.
6. What single song, living or dead, do you most wish you'd written… and Why Didn't You?
“RUMBLE.” I'M NO GENIUS.
7. Whose guitar would you most like to be reincarnated as?
MEMPHIS MINNIE'S.
8. In 2000 words or less, Your Hopes, Aspirations and Goals, musical and otherwise, for your life and your country?
SURVIVE.
Johnny's latest is available from the fine folk over at Bongo Beat and Johnny himself can always be found right there at www.johnnydowd.com.
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