{"id":2448722,"date":"2019-09-14T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=884218"},"modified":"2019-09-14T06:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T12:45:39","slug":"see-daniel-johnston-reunite-with-muse-after-26-years-in-rare-doc-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-daniel-johnston-reunite-with-muse-after-26-years-in-rare-doc-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"See Daniel Johnston Reunite With Muse After 26 Years in Rare Doc Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Johnston<\/a>\u2019s enduring muse was Laurie Allen, a woman he met in an art class. One song he wrote about her, \u201cLaurie,\u201d<\/a> found him singing, \u201cOnce I saw the most beautiful girl sitting next to me\/I asked her what was her name, she said it was \u2018Laurie,’\u201d over a strummed acoustic guitar. Even after they fell out of touch, he still pined and wrote songs about her, and in a rare bonus scene from the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston,<\/em> they reconnected more than 25 years later.<\/p>\n

In the clip, Allen tells the crowd at the 2005 South by Southwest festival that she was moved by Johnston\u2019s affection for her, though she wasn\u2019t aware he had written what\u2019s thought to be hundreds of songs about her. \u201cHe always made me feel good about myself and the lousy art that I did,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cI would say, \u2018Everybody else\u2019s is great.\u2019 He\u2019d say, \u2018No, so is yours.\u2019 He never did anything but draw in my notebooks, follow me around, and sing, and tell me he was going to be famous someday.\u201d She said she saved everything he ever gave her.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaniel didn\u2019t know she was going to be there,\u201d the doc\u2019s director, Jeff Feuerzeig, tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cDuring the Q&A, Daniel was freaked out. He ran out the back of the theater, and I think he was quoted as saying, \u2018That can\u2019t be her.\u2019 He went running down the streets of Austin and disappeared for an hour and then he was found later at a Schlotzky\u2019s deli. That\u2019s when the after-party at this art gallery began. We were upset because we didn\u2019t want to upset Daniel in that way. It was supposed to be a beautiful surprise because he had asked for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Johnston went to the party and he and Allen saw each other for the first time in 26 years. With cameras rolling, they gave each other multiple hugs and Allen was visibly moved. She said she couldn\u2019t believe the footage Johnston had captured of her, as shown in the film, so many years earlier. \u201cI was so moved [by the film], weren\u2019t you?\u201d she asked him, fixing his hair and hugging him.<\/p>\n