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American singer-songwriter

Daniel Johnston
Johnston performing in 2012

Johnston performing in 2012
Groundwork information
Nativity name Daniel Dale Johnston
Born (1961-01-22)January 22, 1961
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Origin
  • W Virginia
  • Texas, U.S.
Died c. September 11, 2019(2019-09-11) (aged 58)
Waller, Texas, U.S.
Genres
  • Outsider[one]
  • lo-fi[2]
  • avant-pop [3]
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • singer-songwriter
  • visual creative person
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • piano
  • keyboards
  • chord organ
  • guitar
  • drums
Years active 1978–2019
Labels
  • Yip Eye Music
  • Atlantic
  • Stress Records
Website hihowareyou.com

Musical artist

Daniel Dale Johnston (Jan 22, 1961 – c. September 11, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter and visual creative person regarded equally a significant effigy in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes.[1] [2] Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded solitary in his dwelling,[4] and his music was frequently cited for its "pure" and "childlike" qualities.[5]

Johnston spent extended periods in psychiatric institutions[4] and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.[6] [ane] He garnered a local following in the 1980s past passing out tapes of his music while working at a McDonald's in Dobie Center in Austin, Texas.[7] [8] His cult status was propelled when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was seen wearing a T-shirt that featured artwork from Johnston'southward 1983 cassette anthology Hullo, How Are Yous.[4]

Beyond music, Johnston was accomplished as a visual artist, with his illustrations exhibited at various galleries around the world. His struggles with mental disease were the field of study of the 2005 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He died in 2019, of a suspected heart assail.[ix]

Early life [edit]

Johnston was built-in in Sacramento, California, and grew up in New Cumberland, W Virginia.[10] He was the youngest of five children of William Dale "Bill" Johnston (1922–2017) and Mabel Ruth Voyles Johnston (1923–2010). He began recording music in the late 1970s on a $59 Sanyo monaural boombox, singing and playing pianoforte as well as the chord organ.[10] Following graduation from Oak Glen High School, Johnston spent a few weeks at Abilene Christian University in West Texas before dropping out. He after attended the art programme at Kent State University, East Liverpool, during which he recorded Songs of Pain and More than Songs of Hurting.[11]

Career [edit]

1980s–1990s [edit]

When Johnston moved to Austin, Texas, he began to attract the attending of the local printing and gained a following augmented in numbers by his habit of handing out tapes to people he met.[12] Live performances were well-attended and hotly anticipated.[thirteen] His local standing led to him existence featured in a 1985 episode of the MTV program The Cut Edge featuring performers from Austin's "New Sincerity" music scene.[14]

In 1988, Johnston visited New York City and recorded 1990 with producer Mark Kramer[15] at his Noise New York studio.[x] This was Johnston'south commencement experience in a professional person recording environment later a decade of releasing home-made cassette recordings. His mental health further deteriorated during the making of 1990.[16] In 1989, Johnston released the anthology It's Chilling in collaboration with singer Jad Fair of the band Half Japanese.[17]

In 1990, Johnston played at a music festival in Austin, Texas. On the way back to Westward Virginia on a individual 2-seater plane piloted past his father Bill, Johnston had a manic psychotic episode; assertive he was Casper the Friendly Ghost, Johnston removed the primal from the plane's ignition and threw it outside. His begetter, a onetime U.S. Air Forcefulness pilot, managed to successfully crash-land the plane, even though "there was cipher down there but copse". Although the plane was destroyed, Johnston and his father emerged with but small-scale injuries. As a event of this episode, Johnston was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital.[18]

Interest in Johnston increased when Kurt Cobain was frequently photographed wearing a T-shirt featuring the cover image of Johnston'due south album Hello, How Are You that music journalist Everett True had given to him.[10] Cobain listed Yip/Jump Music equally 1 of his favorite albums in his journal, in 1993.[19] In spite of Johnston being resident in a mental hospital at the time, there was a bidding war to sign him. He refused to sign a multi-album deal with Elektra Records considering Metallica was on the label's roster and he was convinced that they were Satanic and would hurt him,[16] as well dropping his longtime managing director, Jeff Tartakov, in the process.[twenty] Ultimately he signed with Atlantic Records in February 1994 and that September released Fun, produced past Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers.[21] It was a commercial failure. In June 1996, Atlantic dropped Johnston from the label.[16]

an outline cartoon drawing of a smiling frog with eye stalks reminiscent of a snail

In 1993, the Sound Commutation tape store in Austin, Texas, commissioned Johnston to paint a mural of the Hi, How Are You? frog (too known as "Jeremiah the Innocent") from the album's encompass.[22] Afterwards the tape store airtight in 2003, the building remained unoccupied until 2004 when the Mexican grill franchise Baja Fresh took ownership and decided that they would remove the wall that held the mural. A group of people who lived in the neighborhood convinced the managers and contractors to continue the mural intact.[23] In 2018, the building housed a Thai eating place called "Thai, How Are You lot".[24] Thai, How Are You airtight permanently in January 2020 and the building remains empty.[ citation needed ]

2000s [edit]

In 2004, Johnston released The Late Swell Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, a two-disc compilation. The beginning disc featured covers of his songs past artists including Tom Waits, Beck, TV on the Radio, Jad Fair, Eels, Bright Eyes, Calvin Johnson, Expiry Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips and Starlight Mints, with the 2nd disc featuring Johnston's original recordings of the songs.[25] In 2005, Texas-based theater visitor Infernal Bridegroom Productions received a Multi-Arts Product/MAP Fund grant to work with Johnston to create a rock opera based on his music, titled Speeding Motorcycle.[26]

In 2006, Jeff Feuerzeig released a documentary virtually Johnston, The Devil and Daniel Johnston; the film, four years in the making, collated some of the vast amount of recorded cloth Johnston (and in some instance, others) had produced over the years to portray his life and music.[27] The film won high praise, receiving the Director's Laurels at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.[28] The film likewise inspired more than involvement in Johnston's work, and increased his prestige as a touring artist. In 2006, Johnston'due south characterization, Eternal Yip Eye Music, released his beginning greatest-hits compilation, Welcome to My Earth.[29]

Through the side by side few years Johnston toured extensively across the world, and continued to concenter printing attention. His artwork was shown in galleries such as in London'southward Aquarium Gallery, New York's Clementine Gallery and at the Liverpool Biennial in 2006 and 2008,[30] and in 2009, his piece of work was exhibited at "The Museum of Dearest" at Verge Gallery in Sacramento, California.[31] In 2008, Dick Johnston, Johnston's blood brother and manager, revealed that "a flick deal based on the artist'due south life and music had been finalized with a tentative 2011 release."[32] He besides said that a deal had been struck with the Converse company for a "signature series" Daniel Johnston shoe.[32] Later, it was revealed by Dick Johnston that Converse had dropped the programme.[33] In early 2008, a Jeremiah the Innocent collectible figurine was released in limited runs of 4 dissimilar colors.[34] Afterward in the year, Adaptable Productions released Johnston'due south first concert DVD, The Affections and Daniel Johnston – Live at the Wedlock Chapel, featuring a 2007 advent in Islington, London.[35]

Is and Always Was was released on October 6, 2009, on Eternal Yip Eye Music.[36] In 2009, it was announced that Matt Groening had called Johnston to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow'southward Parties festival that he curated in May 2010, in Minehead, England.[37] Also that year, Dr. Fun Fun and Smashing Studios developed an iPhone platform game called Hullo, How Are You. The game is similar to Frogger, but features Johnston's art and music. Johnston played information technology during its development and liked it, although he was non familiar with the iPhone.[38]

2010s [edit]

On March 13, 2012, Johnston released his start comic book Infinite Ducks – An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness [39] at SXSW, published past BOOM! Studios. The comic volume ties-in with the Infinite Ducks anthology and an iOS app.[twoscore] Johnston collaborated with skateboarding and wearable company Supreme on numerous collections (consisting of clothing and various accessories) showcasing his artwork.[41]

On March 1, 2012, Brooklyn-based photographer Jung Kim announced her photo book and traveling exhibition project with Johnston titled DANIEL JOHNSTON: hither, a collaboration that began in 2008 when Kim outset met Johnston and began photographing him on the road and at his home in Waller, Texas.[42] On March 13, 2013, this photography book was published, featuring five years of documentation on Johnston.[42] The opening exhibition at SXSW festival featured a special operation past Johnston along with tribute performances led by Jason Sebastian Russo formerly of Mercury Rev.[43] [44] The second exhibition ran in May and June 2013 in London, England, and featured a special performance by Johnston along with tribute performances by the UK band Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs with Steffan Halperin of the Klaxons.[ii] [45] On October ten, 2013, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized hosted the New York City opening of the exhibition, which included special tribute performances led by Pierce and Glen Hansard of The Great Season and The Frames.[46] [47]

In November 2015, How-do-you-do, How Are Y'all Daniel Johnston?, a brusk documentary nearly Johnston's life, was released featuring Johnston as his 2015 self and Gabriel Sunday of Archie'southward Last Project every bit Johnston's 1983 self. The executive producers for the picture included Lana Del Rey and Mac Miller.[48] [49]

In July 2017, Johnston announced that he would be retiring from live functioning and would embark on a final v-date bout that fall.[50] Each stop on the bout featured Johnston backed by a group that had been influenced past his music: The Preservation All-Stars in New Orleans, The Districts and Modern Baseball in Philadelphia, Jeff Tweedy in Chicago, with Congenital to Spill for the last ii dates in Vancouver, B.C. and Seattle, WA.[l]

Death [edit]

On September eleven, 2019, Johnston was plant dead from a suspected middle set on at his dwelling house in Waller, Texas. It is believed that he died overnight, a day later on he had been released from hospital for unspecified kidney issues.[51] [52] [53]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

  • Songs of Pain (1981)
  • Don't Exist Scared (1982)
  • The What of Whom (1982)
  • More than Songs of Pain (1983)
  • Yip/Jump Music (1983)
  • Hi, How Are Y'all (1983)
  • Retired Boxer (1984)
  • Respect (1985)
  • Continued Story with Texas Instruments (1985) (with Texas Instruments)
  • Merry Christmas (1988)
  • Information technology'due south Chilling (1989) (with Jad Fair)
  • 1990 (1990)
  • Creative Vice (1991)
  • Fun (1994)
  • Rejected Unknown (2001)
  • The Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous (2001) (with Jad Off-white)
  • Fear Yourself (2003)
  • Lost and Plant (2006)
  • Is and Always Was (2009)
  • Beam Me Upward! (2010) (with Beam)
  • Space Ducks (2012)

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Official

  • Hullo How Are You lot: Daniel Johnston'south official website
  • Daniel Johnston's digital download site

Other

  • Daniel Johnston at IMDb
  • New York Times article on Daniel Johnston (Feb 2006)
  • Daniel Johnston on MusicAustin
  • Secret Tones review of The Devil and Daniel Johnston (past John Barron)
  • "Songs of Pain" interview with Daniel Johnston (Apr. 2008) on MonsterFresh.com
  • Daniel Johnston, Paris, 2007
  • Exclusive Images of unreleased Daniel Johnston signature model Antipodal
  • Feature on Daniel Johnston in German mag ZOO, Summer 2005

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