Hi, How Are You?

by Daniel Johnston

Hi, How Are You? cover art

Self-recorded on a cheap boombox and distributed on cassette, Daniel Johnston's 'Hi, How Are You?' is a heartbreakingly raw, uncomfortably intimate artifact of outsider music. Johnston utilizes a chord organ and his strained, wavering voice to deliver incredibly pure, highly sentimental songs detailing his severe mental illness and profound loneliness. It is a deeply depressive, remarkably honest, and highly influential lo-fi masterpiece.

Genres

  • Singer-Songwriter
  • Avant-Folk

Tracklist

  1. Poor You
  2. Big Business Monkey
  3. Walking the Cow
  4. I Picture Myself with a Guitar
  5. Despair Came Knocking
  6. I Am a Baby (In My Universe)
  7. Nervous Love
  8. I'll Never Marry
  9. Get Yourself Together
  10. Running Water
  11. Desperate Man Blues
  12. Hey Joe
  13. She Called Pest Control
  14. Keep Punching Joe
  15. No More Pushing Joe Around