Daniel Johnston, cult singer-songwriter beloved by alternative-rock icons, dies at 58

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Daniel Johnston, a singer-songwriter whose childlike lyrics and homemade cassettes inspired artists of the ’90s alternative rock boom, died yesterday of a heart attack.

Daniel Johnston, the Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter whose childlike lyrics and homemade cassettes inspired many artists of the ’90s alternative rock boom, died Sept. 10 of a heart attack, former manager Jeff Tartakov confirmed to the Austin Chronicle. He was 58.

While attending Ohio’s Kent State University in the early ’80s, Johnston began recording melancholy, lo-fidelity folk-rock songs, dubbed to cassette and adorned with Johnston’s hand-drawn cartoon art.

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