Tag: Daniel Johnston
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RIP Daniel Johnston
Sad to hear about the death of ‘outsider’ musician Daniel Johnston at 58. He came out from the cold and became quite mainstream in later decades, much beloved by Kurt Cobain, Flaming Lips and many others in the indie scene. I only saw him once at an Everett True (Meltdown?) arranged gig all with many…
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Gaelynn Lea
Many people came across Gaelynn Lea via her NPR Tiny Desk submission and concert (below) but I stumbled across her looking up Alan Sparhawk side projects and then found A Murder of Crows. They’ve never released ‘A Moment of Bliss’ I think, one extended EP/album called Imperfecta after the condition that Gaelynn has. Her own…
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Lewis – L’Amour
In a post I marked for later last month but only recently checked was this album by Lewis aka Randall Wulff. It’s amazing, and easily has become one of my favourite albums of recent times but it was recorded 31 years ago. It’s a strange story, of outsider music on a private press, a man…