Check this guy out if you dare. So ran the last line of a profile titled Johnny Dowd Slithers Onto Music Scene back in 1999. That gives you a pretty decent idea of how Johnny Dowds music works slither and dare being the key words. Johnny does both. In the traditions of Waits or Bukowski, he slithers into places most of us dont imagine or see. They might be back alleys, back porches, or just a bar down the street, but wherever he goes he dares to sing out what he sees. Will you dare to listen? Dowd conjures up characters with bluntness and an eye for telling details a true writers songsmith.