2023-04-20 05:30
Crosstalk: Hi, How Are You Mural Lasts a Long Time Despite Building Demo, and More Music News
Daniel Johnston's Jeremiah the Innocent mural at Guadalupe & 21st (photo by Jana Birchum) Daniel Johnston 's famed Hi, How Are You mural lives on as a freestanding piece of wall following destruction of the surrounding building (formerly the restaurant Thai, How Are You?) last week. The late local songwriter painted the friendly frog in 1993, commissioned by Sound Exchange record store. In 2018, Johnston told the Chronicle : "I always called it the Innocent Frog. He's full of innocence the way I was back then.

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