Daniel Johnston
I should've heard of this guy way before than a week ago but to make up for lost time I've been listening to a lot lately. He's a singer-songwriter but I'm not really sure if I'd go on about that for too long. I mean he's not a great musician. But he's fun! A lot of fun. Simple, obnoxious, weird. You know what music should always be about. It's not hard to believe that him and Violent Femmes are contempararies. They're not really similar but I hear the where it sounds pretty clear to me that they influenced each other. I'm certain that he lost a bunch of demos and John Darnielle found them and polished them up and spent 15 years rehashing it in a beautiful way.
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