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Documentaries on independent rock artists like Wilco, Townes Van Zandt and They Might Be Giants have been all the rage in recent years. Los Angeles Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan ...
Genius and madness have long enjoyed an idealized, symbiotic relationship in the world of art. From Edgar Allan Poe to Vincent Van Gogh to Sylvia Plath, tortured souls writhing in the throes of ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Foundry Theater is honoring the life and legacy of musician Daniel Johnston with a special documentary screening. Johnston spent time growing up in West Virginia, and is ...
Although it was released roughly a decade-and-a-half ago, The Devil and Daniel Johnston begins on what is now an unfortunately eerie note, with a young Johnston videotaping himself in the mirror, ...
It was 1985 when Jeff Feuerzeig, a music-obsessed college radio DJ out of Jersey, first read about music legend Daniel Johnston, a pioneer in the so-called lo-fi movement favoring heart over ...
On track five of 1990, Daniel Johnston sings in a trembling voice, “The colors are bright / Bright, as ever … Some things last a long time.” More than six years after his untimely death, we are still ...
Like Chicago phenomenon Wesley Willis, singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston became a cult figure in the pop-music underground largely because of his mental illness. Raised by West Virginia ...