Yes Meets Zappa Meets Johnny Dowd

Talk about stuff you weren't expecting to hear. Johnny Dowd's Cruel Words is typically strange singer-talker-songwriter stuff. Dowd talks more than sings, and he doesn't wallow in love songs. Dowd didn't start making records until age 50, and this is his sixth, but the first I heard. My research revealed that his other records follow the same line. There's a bit of a prog-rocker in him. I hear Yes keyboards meeting Frank Zappa guitar lines. Some of the throwaway stuff is just that, but Dowd is just different enough to stand out.