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The title of the post says it all really - thanks to my usual laziness, and some impressive secret-keeping by the organisers of the wonderful Instal festival, I managed to miss the first ever live performance by Jandek.
If you don’t know him, Jandek is a deeply reclusive Texan who, since 1978, has been steadily releasing albums of beautiful and upsetting music, mostly a sort of grim amateur blues that resolutely ignores the conventions of songwriting. As to his motivation, his thinking, that’s anyone’s guess: the only thing anyone knows about Jandek is his name, and the fact that his records are released by Corwood Industries, a label that releases nothing else. You can read more at Seth Tisue’s definitive Guide To Jandek, and order CDs from Corwood Industries, P.O. Box 15375, Houston TX 77220 (at just $4 each, if you buy 20 or more albums).
Here’s the last song, title unknown, from the hour-long Instal show, with Jandek backed by Richard Youngs on bass and the amazing Alex Neilsen on drums:
And here’s one of my favourite Jandek songs, from the 1986 album Telegraph Melts:
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