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- Date Released: February 8, 2005
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Singer-Songwriter
- Label: Bar/None Records
Daniel Johnston’s silky-voiced ex covers 22 of his finest songs.
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We Say...
Countless people have told me they first discovered Daniel from this record. Kathy McCarty was in Austin's Glass Eye when a skinny waif of a man spotted a gig poster featuring an eyeball; it was love at first sight. As Kathy said in The Devil and Daniel Johnston, "Daniel handed me his cassette Hi. How Are You? and I went home and played it and it literally blew my mind." You should never confuse the art with the man. That entire summer, Kathy thought she was in love with the guy who created this music, becoming Daniel's "chaste girlfriend" until realizing something in him was not "naive and pure and innocent and beautiful." She and Daniel parted ways but his songs never left her. In a true labor of love, Kathy and her silky vibrato cover 22 of Daniel's finest songs in a mosaic of different styles that are finely distilled and rendered through her love filter. "I Had a Dream," "Walking the Cow," "Desperate Man Blues," "Like a Monkey in a Zoo" stand out in a record filled with diamonds.
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They Say...
It's one of Daniel Johnston's many crosses to bear that a number of people embrace his music for all the wrong reasons -- given the obvious eccentricities of his performing style (his occasionally sloppy command of his instruments and his high, wavering voice) and the miserable recording quality of many of his best-known albums, he's viewed as an amusing eccentric (or a crazed savant) by much of his audience, whose interest in him is roughly akin to that generated by a circus geek. And the shame of this is that Johnston is a truly gifted songwriter, though one often has to look past the surfaces of his recordings to realize this. Thankfully, Kathy McCarty -- former vocalist with the fine Austin, Texas band Glass Eye and a close friend of Johnston -- is someone who has stripped back the quirky veneer of Johnston's performances to discover the beauty that lies beneath, and in 1994 she set out to show the world just how strong the man's song catalog truly is by recording an album comprised entirely of his tunes. Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston features McCarty interpreting 19 of Johnston's more memorable songs, and her strong, clear voice certainly gets his messages across in a more conventionally attractive manner than his, though she's also a superb interpretive singer and is able to bring the emotional nooks and crannies of these lyrics to the surface nearly as well as he can. Just as importantly, McCarty's album also makes a superb case for the diversity of Johnston's music, arranging his songs in a variety of different styles, from the late-night cocktail blues of "Desperate Man Blues" and the jolly beer hall singalong of "Hate Song" to the slow-building balladry of "Hey Joe" and the sad, dreamlike grandeur of "I Had a Dream" -- Dead Dog's Eyeball is where the intelligence and wonder of Johnston's melodies finally get their due. Kathy McCarty had trolled through the heart and soul of Daniel Johnston's music on Dead Dog's Eyeball, and returned with a lovely and compelling document of the wonders she found; this is probably the best favor anyone has ever done Johnston's work. Bar/None's 2005 reissue of the album tacks on three worthwhile bonus tracks and three videos viewable on personal computers, including a clip incorporating footage from Richard Linklater's film Before Sunset and Before Sunrise, which used McCarty's version of "Living Life."
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| 01. |
Intro |
0:22 |
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| 02. |  |
Walking The Cow |
3:15 |
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| 03. | |
Rocketship |
4:11 |
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| 04. | |
Living Life |
2:35 |
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| 05. | |
I Had A Dream |
3:56 |
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| 06. | |
I Am A Baby (In My Universe) |
1:47 |
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| 07. | |
Hey Joe |
3:20 |
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| 08. | |
Like A Monkey In A Zoo |
2:41 |
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| 09. | |
Sorry Entertainer |
3:12 |
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| 10. | |
Desperate Man Blues |
4:19 |
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| 11. | |
Oh No! |
4:55 |
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| 12. | |
Hate Song |
2:29 |
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| 13. | |
Golly Gee |
2:05 |
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| 14. | |
Going Down |
3:50 |
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| 15. | |
Museum Of Love |
3:45 |
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| 16. | |
Wild West Virginia |
2:46 |
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| 17. | |
Running Water |
1:23 |
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| 18. | |
Grievanves |
2:52 |
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| 19. | |
The Creature |
2:57 |
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| 20. | |
Worried Shoes |
5:53 |
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| 21. | |
Love Wheel |
2:10 |
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| 22. | |
It Is Over |
4:18 |
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22 Total Tracks, 69:01 Total Length
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Credits
- Brian Beattie - Producer // Brian Beattie - Photography // K. McCarty - Producer // K. McCarty - Paintings // K. McCarty - Video Director // K. McCarty - Drawing // Sandy Greene - Typography // Roy Taylor - Video Director // Gina Arnold - Liner Notes
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