Continued Story/Hi, How Are You (CD)

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• Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Label: High Wire Music
• UPC: 837101163941
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105915771
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #18465 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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Audio Remasterer: Julia Reid.

Recording information: 1983.

Released in late 2006 around the time that the acclaimed documentary THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON was issued on DVD, this compilation collects two of the troubled indie-rock troubadour's mid-1980s albums, which were originally distributed by the Austin, Texas, resident on cassette tape. At times painfully spare, these songs get to the heart of Johnston's fractured yet fascinating aesthetic, with his helium-voiced yelp relating tales of isolation, frustration, and escapism over what is often little more than a muffed piano or acoustic-guitar line. Despite the off-key, lo-fi presentation, the brilliance of Johnston's songwriting frequently shines through, as on the urgent existential number "Walking the Cow" and the beautifully wistful ballad "Hey Joe" (later covered to wonderful effect by Sparklehorse). Also of interest is Johnston's reverent, minimal reading of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There," which finds the performer occasionally accompanying his nasal singing with the odd piano note. Though this collection won't convert those put off by Johnston's eccentric delivery, it is a fine sampling of the outsider artist's intriguing musical vision, and is essential for his devoted fans.

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