Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston
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| Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Label | Bar/None | |||
| Producer | Brian Beattie, Kathy McCarty | |||
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Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston is an album by the American musician Kathy McCarty, released in 1994.[1][2] It contains 19 renditions of songs written by Daniel Johnston.[3] McCarty became aware of Johnston when he opened for her former band, Glass Eye, in 1985.[4] McCarty supported the album with a North American tour.[5] An EP of additional Johnston material, Sorry Entertainer, was released in 1995.[6] Dead Dog's Eyeball was reissued in 2005, with bonus tracks and videos.[7] Johnston and his parents were fans of the album.[8][9]
The album was produced by Brian Beattie and McCarty; the recording sessions, mostly at a friend's home studio, cost around $5,000 and began in July 1993.[10][11][12] McCarty was initially attracted to Johnston's gift for melody.[13] She thought that many of the early-1990s Johnston covers by other musicians did not capture the essence of his songs, an assessment shared by the Spin Alternative Record Guide.[14][15] Although the album's release coincided with Johnston's Fun, McCarty started the project at a time when Johnston's career seemed uncertain due to a hospitalization.[10] Most of the songs came from tapes Johnston recorded in the mid-1980s.[16] McCarty kept Johnston's pronoun choices and pronunciation errors.[17] "Living Life" was McCarty's favorite song; it was used over the closing credits of Before Sunrise.[18][19] "Running Water" was recorded in a University of Texas philosophy department bathroom.[20]
