R.I.P. Daniel Johnston: 12 Essential Tracks From the Outsider Music Legend

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-style cry for belonging. The song is nothing if not self-pitying, but Johnston doesn’t blame anyone for his loneliness but himself: “Get attached to a rolling stone and you’re liable to get crushed/ You’re better off to sit at home and watch the toilet flush.”Johnston grew up in the Church of Christ, a fundamentalist Christian denomination highly active in Texas.

” Weaving through worshipful majors and minors, Johnston yelps about leaving behind a “lonely road,” a “heavy load,” “crawling slowly through the dark” in search of comforting light. If you can get past the gawky delivery and anti-production, this is church.Maniacally strummed on a seemingly untuned guitar, “Sorry Entertainer” is a summation of what Johnston was all about: fighting off his torment via raw creative acts.

 

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