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Sally
Timms recorded In The World Of Him with Johnny Dowd and his
band in Ithaca, NY over the course of several sessions during
2003. She has been collecting these songs for the past few years,
the developing theme being songs written by men and sung from
their perspective. They cover war, marriage, abandonment, and
the inability to articulate and range from the apologetic to
the analytical. Songs were written by Ryan Adams, Mark Eitzel,
Kevin Coyne, Johnny Dowd, Mekons, Jon Langford and Sean Garrison.
Sally is best known for her long involvement with the Mekons
whom she joined in 1986. She recorded her fi rst solo album,
Hangahar (an experimental improvised fi lm score), at the age
of nineteen with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks. She has released
several other solo CDs, Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat
in 1988, To the Land of Milk and Honey in 1995, and a country
album, Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos,
for Bloodshot Records in 1998.
Sally sang “Give me Back my Dreams” on The Sixths’
Hyacinths and Thistles and has recorded with Marc Almond, the
Aluminum Group, Jon Rauhouse’s Steel Guitar Show, the
Sadies, Andre Williams and A Grape Dope. She participated in
Vito Acconci’s “Theater Project for a Rock Band”
as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival
in 1995 and also performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate
operetta Pussy, King of the Pirates at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Chicago and elsewhere. Sally sang several songs on The
Executioner’s Last Songs CDs, which raised funds for the
Illinois Moratorium Against the Death Penalty, and will participate
in Jon Langford’s performance project organized through
“Alverno Presents” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis
and the Milwaukee Art Museum in April 2005. She occasionally
writes crude broadsheets on pop culture, which have been subsequently
published in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader and TimeOut
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Touch & Go
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