Blog: Some Of It Was True!

My friend Adrian alerted me to Daniel Johnston - a maker of deeply personal, staggeringly sincere and gorgeously written auteurish folk/rock songs sung with a haunting voice, Johnston is one of those guys think Scott Walker, Arthur Lee, etc - who's always cited by later, bigger stars - think Bowie, Kurt Cobain, etc - as their inspiration. Basically, he's great. I tell you this because Johnston is playing a one-off show, in the company of defiant anti-folkster (ie folkster) and jackanory lyricist Jeffrey Lewis (playing solo), in the ever-atmospheric Troxy theatre in Bethnal Green. It gets [...]

• Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last A Long Time
• Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Roll Bus Roll