Nashville musicians Morgan Ames, Zac Caffrey, Travis Caffrey and Michael Sadler, are huge fans of Johnny Dowd. Travis and Michael were thrilled when he sang and played on a song on their Dead Dads album by their avant-garde garage noise duo The Chewers in 2015.
Fast forward to 2016. One of the perks of Johnny's crowdfunding campaign for his album Execute American Folklore was a song written for you if you handed over 1000 dollars. They hadn't that kind of money lying around, but came up with a good idea: a campaign to raise the fund by offering contributors to write a song about them. They came close - 760 dollars, and because Johnny Dowd loved the idea he wrote the song anyway, naming it Mouthhole, after the underground basement music venue where the four musicians put on shows in Nashville.
