Six and Six

Track Listing:

1. Feathered Drums
2. Point Judith
3. I Knew You Would Leave
4. Can I See Your Clock
5. Wild Strawberries
6. Forgive Me
7. Hilltop Serenade
8. You're the Best One
9. Delinquent Words

Album Cover Description Black and white head-and-shoulders shot of Jandek in front of a curtain, staring sullenly at the camera. There is some damage to the photo if you look closely, as if it had stuck to the photo above it in a stack, or as if someone had had it in his or her wallet. It could possibly be a photo booth photo. Jandek appears to be a young adult in this photo -- I think of it as the "badass rock'n'roll Jandek" photo, since he's wearing a leather jacket over a sort of low-necked T-shirt and has a chain around his neck (crooked: you can see the clasp on the side of his neck). He even looks unshaven, although it could just as easily be an effect of the lighting. A far cry both from the adolescent Jandeks and the mature, adult Jandeks who populate the other covers. -- Seth Tisue

"Photo booth" flavor... very, very reminiscent of the Robert Johnson photo booth[?] picture... Perhaps an homage.

Slight blur to the left ear and left eye. Leather jacket and chain. Bowl haircut. Cool and indifferent look.

Ragged black line on the right edge of the frame.

Music Notes

Perhaps the most catatonic, monochromatic, non-melodic Jandek LP -- music on the edge of sleep, or death. -- Seth Tisue

Reviews The approach is basically the same (as on Ready for the House) -- free pick’n’strum acoustic guitar and depressed vocals -- although he adds echo (natural?) to create an even denser sense of mental murk.” -- Piero Scaruffi The History of Rock Music, Vol. 4

Outside Links

• Seth Tisue's Six and Six review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog#0740)