Blog: WMCN 91.7FM Macalester College Radio

I've been writing a novella loosely based on the life of Daniel Johnston, relocated from Texas to Montana and renamed Sam Barry (like Robert Johnson, if Daniel Johnston didn't exist, someone would have had to invent him). A lot of the main action takes place in 1983, so I've been fairly immersed in the music of that year recently. This includes, of course, two of Johnston's 1983 masterworks, Yip/Jump Music and Hi, How Are You , but also a good amount of synth-pop. Johnston had nothing to do with synth-pop, as far as I [...]

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