Texas-based Daniel Johnston was a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, active in the music scene since the late 70’s. He was a self-taught, pop rocker and illustrator whose art and music was greatly focused on his obsession with unrequited love and the pop culture that he first encountered as an adolescent. Johnston’s songs have been covered by several hundred artists, including David Bowie and Tom Waits. The late Kurt Cobain mused that Daniel Johnston is the best song writer in America. In 2006, his life was documented in the award-winning film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston,” and his painted illustrations were exhibited in the Whitney biennial. Daniel had a lifetime battle with mental illness, and medication prescribed for this condition damaged his liver requiring multiple hospitalizations. He passed from a heart attack on September 11, 2019.
