Glad to Get Away
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 Glad to Get Away |
Glad to Get Away is an album by Jandek (1994). Corwood Industries release #0762.
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Track listing
- "Bitter Tale"
- "Hey Mister Can You Tell Me"
- "Ezekiel"
- "Moon Dance"
- "Flowers on My Shirt"
- "Morning Drum"
- "Down Clown"
- "Rain in Madison"
- "Van Ness Mission"
- "Anticipation"
- "Nancy Knows"
- "Take My Will"
- "Plenty"
- "What"
Album cover description
Almost identical to Graven Image. 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
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 link
- Seth Tisue's Glad to Get Away review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog.html#0762)