To Eric and all - Possibly (slightly) interesting news
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Raindog Harry
Created
17.08.2005 22:22
First of all, much too late, Eric! Thanks for the
Asia photo's. I DID receive them and was glad to
receive them. Could have reacted earlier (me of
course, not you!)
H.
To ALL: Read an intriguing articel in a Dutch
magazine, about a musician called Daniel Johnston.
intriguing as he is described as someone who makes
good, interesting music, and as someone who is
appreciated by a lot of good colleague musicians such
as Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, Mark Linkous of
Sparklehorse. Well, who care, I can hear some of you
think. This forum is about Waits. You're right. Now
comes the interesting part. In the article I read
that the latest cd of this Mr. Johnston, whom I had
never even heard of (he seems to have made about 30
cd's already), called Discovered Covered, contains
eighteen of his songs, performed by other musicians,
such as Beck, Bright Eyes, Eels, Sparklehorse, AND...
tadatadatada Tom Waits. Anyone heard/read this? A
second cd contains the original recordings by
Johnston himself. I am quite curious about this guy
himself, interesting background, still living with
his parents, and of course I am very curious to know
what this song sounds like then. It seems that we
have a new opportunity to hear something by Waits
that is more recent than Real Gone. Marco, this may
be interesting stuff, also apart from the Waits song.
The article is in Vrij Nederland of this week.
