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Glad to Get Away


Glad to Get Away

Glad to Get Away is an album by Jandek (1994). Corwood Industries release #0762.

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Track Listing:

  1. Bitter Tale
  2. Hey Mister Can You Tell Me
  3. Ezekiel
  4. Moon Dance
  5. Flowers on My Shirt
  6. Morning Drum
  7. Down Clown
  8. Rain in Madison
  9. Van Ness Mission
  10. Anticipation
  11. Nancy Knows
  12. Take My Will
  13. Plenty
  14. 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

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