Daniel Johnston, Cult Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 58
An external music hero was hospitalized with a kidney malfunction before his death of natural causes
Daniel Johnston, an outsider folk artist who begged for childlike love like Kurt Cobain, Matt Groening, and Tom Waits, died on Wednesday’s natural causes. He was 58 years old.
His family is in a statement “The Johnston family is very sad, announcing the death of his brother Daniel Johnston.” He lost a natural cause this morning in his home in Houston, Texas .
“Daniel was a singer, composer, artist and all friends. Daniel experienced difficulties with mental health problems in many parts of adult life, but overcame the disease through a great deal of art and song No matter how dark it is all day long, he has a lot of fans, artists and composers with the message, “Let me shine” and “True love, ultimately, find you.” Inspired. “
Over the years Johnston has disputed physical and mental health issues. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but after a crash, his body Hi was hospitalized and hospitalized. He also had to fight against routine changes in his medication.
Johnston’s type Dick said in a Wednesday interview that “maintaining health is a struggle, and when you are not healthy you have to deal with others.” Johnston was hospitalized last week for kidney dysfunction and returned home on Tuesday. “He was clear and comfortable,” Dick said. “I’ve seen him in the last few years. I liked the swelling of my ankles. He was happy.”
A musician who went to confirm Johnston around 8:30 on Tuesday night refused. According to his brother, his body was found in his room on Wednesday morning. No autopsy is performed.
The singer is best remembered for the love of songs like “In Life in Vain”, “True Love Will End You End”, and “Walking the Cow” and the simple and tenor of life and simple rebellion. His voice was passionate, craving and became a feature that attracted many famous fans. Coburn (Johnston mentioned in an interview with one of the “greatest” composers) is Johnston’s Hi, How You You album that rips at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie I paid attention to artists including Bright. Eyes and Beck covered all his songs.
Zola Jesus says to Twitter “There is no word that can tell the importance and vitality of Daniel Johnston ’s musical spirit.” He gave great inspiration to take my creative impulses, no matter how dirty or simple .
Johnston said in an interview with Rolling Stone in 1994, “Some people bothered me, others I really liked.” Different from killer and others. Similar to exit teddy bear. … if people chill out, it’s really good if you have a good time. I’ll entertain them. Probably more comedians than I know. “
The 2005 documentary “Devil” and Daniel Johnston brought more audience to his music and stories, including how Johnston threw shockingly the keys of the two planes in the window.
Johnston told the 2005 Chronicle: “The very terrible dilemma is all wrong mistakes, but there is still nothing I can do now. I want them to add laughter to laugh.”
Johnston was born on January 22, 1961 in Sacramento, California as the youngest of five children. His family moved to New Cumberland, West Virginia, where Daniel fell in love with the Beatles and other rock musicians. He made his first album, Songs of Pain in 1980, and achieved a breakthrough commercialization with Hi and How Are You, who came out at Indie Label Homestead three years later.
“When the church grew up, everyone shook hands and said, how are you?” Johnston told the Chronicle last year. “When I was an elderly person who died, I always heard it at the funeral hall. The funeral told me. I was a boy. How are you?”
At this time Johnston moved to Texas and lived with his family. He distributed his music tapes around Austin for free and eventually gained enough attention for MTV to create his functions. During this process, the artists got attention at university rock circuits such as Dead Milkman, Mike Watt, Sonic Youth, and Barth Surfer. Lyon Opera Ballet was found in 1992 to showcase his work in a world gallery set on 25 minutes from his Yip / Jump Music album.
Johnston signed Atlantic major Atlantic in 1994, published Fun and collaborated with Butthole Surfers Paul Leary. About 12,000 copies were sold, so it was not enough to keep him in the major. Over the years he also collaborated with Half Japanese Jad Fair, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous and Okkervil River. Many of its artists and Flaming Lips, Beck, Waits and others pay tribute to Johnston in 2004.
His last album, Space Ducks, came out in 2010. In 2015 Lana Del Rey covered Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time” with a short film about Indie legends for 15 minutes. Del Rey and Mac Miller donated $ 10,000 to a kickstarter campaign for film production. Delhi said Johnston, “One of my hopes, even when he was alone at home, he was still doing his art, but knew that he would write every day.” “He made my difference.”
Johnston announced that in the summer of 2017, members of Wilco, Built to Spill and Fugazi will begin their final tour with a backing band. Wilco ’s Jeff Tweedy told the New York Times that year that “I gave Daniel a lot of inspiration.” Daniel, despite his mental illness, despite his mental illness He was honest to explain that he was fighting inconspicuously. “
In the same Times article, Johnston said he couldn’t stop writing music, surprised by the news that he was on his last trip. “If I quit, there ’s nothing there,” he said. “Probably everything will stop. So I will not stop. You need to continue.”
Johnston’s brother wrote a letter that reflected a new light on singer’s mental illness, as an album that had not been released in the past two years since his father’s death Said it was discovered including. “His struggle was always more serious than I was keen.
“A lot of songs that haven’t been released are just released,” he added. “We are to spend a long time to classify what he has left. We need to share more.”
