How reclusive musician Jandek wound up recording a live album on the Grinnell College campus in 2007
The article explores the history of reclusive musician Jandek and his 2007 live performance at Grinnell College.
The artist known as Jandek emerged with a divisive singer-songwriter sound in 1978. Dropping the needle on his debut album Ready for the House — which came with no liner notes, nor any accompanying concerts or interviews — you hear the unsettling moans of an acoustic guitar playing atonal, dissonant chords, the plucking of steel […]
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