Daniel Johnston
In 2005 me and my girlfriend saw this Dutch documentary about Daniel Johnston from one of the best Dutch art / music programmes R.A.M. (that doesn’t exis anymore, a shame). When we saw this we didn’t really know a lot about Daniel Johnston, only saw Kurt Cubain a few times with this t-shirt. This documentary made a big impact on both of us:
After seeing this we’ve been listening to his songs and following his releases and projects. When you don’t know about him, you should read about his life and start listening to his work (and he made a lot) and you’ll start to understand why people call him the best kept secret from the American music scene and why people like Beck, Tom Waits, Eels covered his songs. The more you listen to his ’simple’ songs the more beautiful they get and you start to appreciate and feel the uniqueness and the genius behind all of them. For the dutch readers here is a short background to that documentary.
The best thing is…he will be performing here in Eindhoven the 26th of October in the Effenaar! I think this will be an amazing night, so I advice to buy some tickets. Besides music, Daniel also is an amazing artist and in the movie The Devil and Daniel Johnston, you can see and hear his beautiful pieces. Here some of his drawings and a small clip form the movie:
Have a look at his site hi how are you…this is still one of the most famous images and as you can see they also made a vinyl at ouf it:
See you the 25th…..one more clip to convince you:
