Glad to Get Away is the twenty-fourth album by Jandek

Jandek

Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...

, and was released (1994) as Corwood Industries

Corwood Industries

Corwood Industries is a Houston, Texas-based company whose only output would appear to be the music of Jandek. It is not known what other ventures, if any, that Corwood Industries may be involved with....

#0762. It continues the acoustic sound of the prior two albums.

Track listing

1. Bitter Tale – 2:25
2. Hey Mister Can You Tell Me – 3:33
3. Ezekiel – 2:49
4. Moon Dance – 2:22
5. Flowers on My Shirt – 2:36
6. Morning Drum – 2:58
7. Down Clown – 2:45
8. Rain in Madison – 2:19
9. Van Ness Mission – 3:03
10. Anticipation – 3:12
11. Nancy Knows – 3:10
12. Take My Will – 4:03
13. Plenty – 2:00
14. What – 3:06

Album cover description

Almost identical to Graven Image

Graven Image (album)

Graven Image is the 23rd album by Jandek, released in as Corwood Industries release #0761. It was the first Corwood CD, and was remastered and re-issued in 2004.-Track listing:#Remain the Same – 1:36#Helena – 2:13#Ghost Town by the Sea – 3:03...

. It looks like he stepped about ten feet to one side -- you're looking down the driveway along the side of the house, instead of just at the back of the house -- and took another photo. -- Seth Tisue

Part of this album cover would be incorporated into both the trailer and the DVD cover of the documentary Jandek on Corwood

Jandek on Corwood

Jandek on Corwood is a documentary about veteran reclusive folk/blues artist Jandek. Unlike most popular music documentaries, the subject himself is not seen in the film in any way; instead, various critics, disc jockeys and journalists, many of whom have had some contact with the notoriously...

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Reviews

Sixteen years after his first album, Jandek sounds more confident in his playing, and his vocals are more up front, but his detuned/untuned acoustic guitar and depressed, stream-of-consciousness folk/blues songs remain at the core of his music... 'Rain in Madison' jumps out, a cracked blues-style story about... something ('you know you can't bring no electric devices out in the rain'). On 'Van Ness Mission', he turns up the echo full blast for a disturbing 'delic journey that continues on 'Anticipation' like a free-style Tav Falco goin' down slow. 'Nancy Knows' is an awkward but complex instrumental that clearly shows Jandek now moving his left hand around the neck of his guitar in a way very foreign to his early open-strum approach. I wonder if the tune is named for the same Nancy who sang on chair beside a window back in '82. 'Take My Will' is more early blues, Jandek-style... He pulls out his harmonica for a little dylan-squeal accompaniment on 'Plenty'. The cycles of nature are not often rapid; listen as one of nature’s strangest wonders continues to slowly 'progress'. -- Piero Scaruffi -- The History of Rock Music #4

External links

• Seth Tisue's Glad to Get Away review