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Critics have conjectured that Linkous's brush with death inspired the sombre tone of the album, though Linkous stated that much of the material on GMS had already been written. Good Morning Spider (1998) was recorded following this incident. The ensuing surgery almost caused him to lose the use of both legs and left him wheelchair-bound for six months and requiring dialysis for acute kidney failure. Unconscious and with his legs pinned beneath him for almost fourteen hours, the resulting potassium build up caused his heart to stop for several minutes after his body was lifted up. In 1996, while touring Europe with Radiohead shortly after the album's release, Mark Linkous consumed a combination of anti-depressants, valium, alcohol, and heroin in a London hotel room. Sparklehorse's first album, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995), was a modest college radio success. Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous. Why the hell wouldnвЂ™t I want to write a book on Daniel Johnston? HeвЂ™s way more worthy of the biographical treatment than 99 percent of his contemporaries.EMI ( Capitol, Parlophone, Odeon, Astralwerks), Slow River, Devil in the Woods The latter fact is borne out when you consider the amount of covers of Daniel Johnston songs by established musicians, very few of which stand up to the original recordings.ДЄnd, deliberately or not, heвЂ™s quite the inspiration to a generation of DIY-heads with his bare home recordings and in-yr-face sales techniques. DanielвЂ™s an incredible songwriter, a fine naГЇve artist (albeit one that paints in felt-tip and sticky-tapes his work to gallery walls), an inspired pianist and incredibly evocative singer. A few insiders have already hinted at a much darker story waiting to be told, that there is much material left untouched on the cutting room floor of Jeff FeuerzeigвЂ™s fine documentary The Devil And Daniel Johnston.Д«ugger all that.

Then there are the friends whoвЂ™ve been put off by Daniel himself - who feel that he manipulates those around him - or those worried by the fact his family come from solid Christian stock. Or perhaps we should be feeling guilty somehow for appreciating the work of Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, Sylvia Plath et al? The subtext to the latter argument almost seems to imply that folk who have unusual difficulty adjusting to the outside world are unable to create great art - a pretty specious argument when one considers the evidence to the contrary.

And several commentators (mostly the sort who think that because theyвЂ™re allowed to detail their latest belch on message boards it makes them a valid voice) have even stated their view that Daniel should be, um, вЂleft aloneвЂ™ - presumably because that itвЂ™s in some way exploitative for folk to listen to his deeply personal, often troubling music.

A few have mused aloud that they actually thought he was dead (presumably a reaction to the fact folk took a couple of decades to discover his music - a fact acknowledged by Daniel himself with both the cover and title of Discovered Covered: The Late Great Daniel Johnston). Some of the initial response has been - вЂњDaniel Johnston? Really?вЂќ - like there should be something odd about wanting to spend 70,000 words discussing the make-up and stories behind one of the most talented, and fascinating, blues singers of our time. This week: Why I Want to Write a Book about Daniel Johnston

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