Hi, How Are You

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Hi, How Are You
Studio album by Daniel Johnston
Released	1983
Recorded	September 1983
Genre	Lo-fi[1]
Length	30:38
Label	Self-released Stress Records Homestead Records
Producer	Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston chronology
Yip/Jump Music (1983) Hi, How Are You (1983) Retired Boxer (1984)

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Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Album, commonly referred to as simply Hi, How Are You, is the sixth self-released music cassette album by singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston, recorded in September 1983. It is arguably his most popular album. Johnston claimed that he recorded it during a nervous breakdown, and called this his "unfinished album."

The album is one of the most sonically varied of Johnston's early output. While earlier records found him focusing on piano or chord organ songs almost exclusively, this album blends both approaches along with experiments in tape and noise collage, and some tentative guitar playing. Two songs ("Desperate Man Blues" and "Keep Punching Joe") feature Johnston singing along with an instrumental LP by Johnny Dankworth.

This was the first Daniel Johnston album to be given a widely distributed release as a vinyl LP; it was released on Homestead Records in 1988.

The cover of the album was also popularized by a shirt worn by Nirvana lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain.^[2]

A 2015 documentary about Johnston, titled Hi, How Are You Daniel Johnston? was named after the record.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Daniel Johnston. All tracks produced by Johnston.

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