The Handsome Family have played the Band Room five times. So too has US Folk hero Michael Hurley. But Johnny Dowd is catching them up...

According to legendary US rock critic Silvie Simmons in MOJO: "Dowd’s latest album Homemade Pie - homemade right down to the cover art - has everything a fan could want. Raw and direct…there’s a slew of slow, dark, stalking ballads (Call Me the Wind) and creepy zombie blues (Shack). The title track, with it’s growly synth, thumping drum and Dowd’s twisted vocal - strangely sugared by backing singer Kim Sherwood-Caso - is the perfect all-American murder song…"