{"id":2448594,"date":"2019-09-12T04:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=883351"},"modified":"2019-09-12T04:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:30:03","slug":"watch-the-national-cover-devil-town-in-honor-of-daniel-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-the-national-cover-devil-town-in-honor-of-daniel-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The National Cover \u2018Devil Town\u2019 in Honor of Daniel Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/shutterstock_editorial_10333243d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">The National<\/a> paid tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/daniel-johnston-dead-883161\/\">late musician<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/daniel-johnston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-johnston\" data-tag=\"daniel-johnston\">Daniel Johnston<\/a> at a show at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas by performing a mash-up of their own \u201cI Am Not in Kansas\u201d with his classic tune \u201cDevil Town.\u201d The musicians took the opportunity to honor the singer, who died of a heart attack at age 58, in a clearly emotional way. The two songs included back-up vocals from Kate Stables, Hannah Georgas and Kyle Resnick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was for Daniel Johnston, who left us,\u201d The National frontman Matt Berninger told the audience after the song, which hit the eight-minute mark. \u201cAnd we\u2019re still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDevil Town\u201d comes off Johnston\u2019s 1990 album <em>1990&nbsp;<\/em>and has been covered by numerous artists, including Bright Eyes and Beck. Several other musicians have paid tribute to the musicians since his death was announced on Wednesday, including Zola Jesus, The Mountain Goats\u2019 John Darnielle and Jack Antonoff.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston\u2019s death was announced by his family on Wednesday, September 11th. \u201cThe Johnston family is deeply saddened to announce the death of their brother, Daniel Johnston,\u201d his family said in a statement. \u201cHe passed away from natural causes this morning at his home outside of Houston, Texas. Daniel was a singer, songwriter, an artist, and a friend to all. Although he struggled with mental health issues for much of his adult life, Daniel triumphed over his illness through his prolific output of art and songs. He inspired countless fans, artists, and songwriters with his message that no matter how dark the day, \u2018the sun shines down on me\u2019 and \u2018true love will find you in the end.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-devil-town-daniel-johnston-883351\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National paid tribute to late musician Daniel Johnston at a show at the White Oak Music Hall in Houston, Texas by performing a mash-up of their own \u201cI Am Not in Kansas\u201d with his classic tune \u201cDevil Town.\u201d The musicians took the opportunity to honor the singer, who died of a heart attack at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 16:25:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}