Johnny Dowd - That's Your Wife on the Back of My Horse (2015)

Time to dig out the bunting and start baking those celebratory cakes, the master of the absurd Ithaca's brightest, exploratory mind, Johnny Dowd, returns with a new album, That's Your Wife On The Back of My Horse.' For a musician forever pushing the envelope to new and exciting places, to turn the clock back and essentially return to the spirit and recording processes of his first album, 1998's Wrong Side Of Memphis, seems a little surprising. Well, rest assured this is Texan-born Johnny Dowd we are talking about here, the arch-mercurial sonic chameleon and adventurist, not some everyday revivalist.