DANIEL JOHNSTON 1990 1990 US LP Mint- Signed
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DANIEL JOHNSTON <> 1990 <> <> <> <> <>
Mint-! Signed on label and with letter from Daniel J to Jad Fair
Promo cut-corner, with Shimmy insert
ORIGINAL 1990 US FIRST EDITION STEREO LP on SHIMMYDISC RECORDS, Catalog # 0028
2. Spirit World Rising
3. Held The Hand
4. Lord Give Me Hope
5. Some Things Last A Long Time
6. Tears Stupid Tears
7. Don't Play Cards With Satan
8. True Love Will Find You In The End
9. Got To Get You Into My Life
10. Careless Soul
11. Funeral Home
Album Notes
When several albums of Daniel Johnston's homemade recordings appeared in the late '80s (including the wonderful YIP/JUMP MUSIC), it created a significant buzz in music circles. Studio owner Mark Kramer was quickly on the scene, bringing Johnston to his own Shimmy-Disc label for this fine album. 1990 is a collection of extremely polished and staggeringly honest odes to love, comic book heroes, and music. Steve Shelley and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth accompany Johnston on "Spirit World Rising," but most of the set finds Johnston alone at the piano or guitar. His version of Lennon and McCartney's "Got To Get You Into My Life" has never been covered with this degree of conviction, streamlined down to its essential rhythmic core.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [W]orth investigating for immortal 'True Love Will Find You In The End'.
Early life
Johnston was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in the northern panhandle of West Virginia between Ohio and Pennsylvania near Chester, West Virginia. Johnston began recording Beatles-inspired music in the late 1970s on a $59 Sanyo monaural Boombox, singing and playing piano and chord organ.Following graduation from Oak Glen High School,
Johnston spent his first year away from home at Abilene Christian University in West Texas. Later he attended the East Liverpool branch of Kent State University, which was closer to his hometown.Music career
Johnston 's musical work gained some notoriety when he moved to Austin, Texas. Johnston began to attract the attention of the local press and gain a following augmented in numbers by his habit of handing out tapes to people he met. Live performances were well attended and hotly anticipated.[5]His local standing led to him being featured in a MTV special on the Austin music scene. Subsequently he performed at the 1985 Woodshock music festival in Austin, where he was featured in a short documentary of the festival, Woodshock. However, his ongoing problems with mental illness continued to hamper his success.
Johnston was unable to complete studio sessions for his 1990 due to the intervention of his mental illness.In 1991,
Johnston was able to air his music on a radio show while being hospitalized at Weston State Hospital. While hospitalized, Johnston sent requests to his manager to have Yoko Ono produce his music and to contact PepsiCo about the possibility of becoming spokesman for the soft drink Mountain Dew. Johnston had written a song praising Mountain Dew during this hospitalization, in which he claimed to have been locked up because he "loved the Mountain Dew so much".COVER and RECORD ARE MINT-small frayed section 2" across top of cover...A one-of-a-kind BEAUTY!
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