You Walk Alone

You Walk Alone is an album by Jandek (1988). Corwood Industries release #0754.

Track Listing:

1. Lavender
2. Time and Space
3. The Cat That Walked From Shelbyville
4. Quinn Boys II
5. The Way That You Act
6. I Know the Times
7. When the Telephone Melts
8. War Dance

Album Cover Description A young Jandek (pre-recording career, perhaps, but not nearly as young as the Lost Cause cover boy or the guitarist on the cover of Follow Your Footsteps) stands, wearing some stylish Texas-style boots ("You are a cowboy when you wear those boots"), squinting into the sun, right hand in his pants pocket, left thumb hooked on his belt, standing in front of an old white house. There is a broken chair on the front porch, which is somewhat overgrown with bushes. The shade on the window is up! I think of this as the "Jandek leaves home" photo. Jandek's torso obscures enough of the door and mailbox to hide the house number -- the man is nothing if not careful to cover his trail. He's looking tall, thin, and long-legged in this photo. -- Seth Tisue

Jandek appears to strut, elbows thrown back, leading with his pelvis. His buttoned up shirt is buttoned to the top. He squints and "mugs" for the camera. His very shiny patent leather shoes are conspicuous. His elbow obscures the mailboxes.

The siding on the house is narrow.. and evokes the siding from Foreign Keys (and is dissimilar from the siding of Nine-Thirty.

Reviews A celebratory exorcism... His most hard-rockin’, conventional record... The progression of the guitar playing is astounding... It recalls the savage beauty of Mr. Howling Wolf... A masterpiece.

-- Jimmy Johnson Forced Exposure #14 Outside Links

• Seth Tisue's You Walk Alone review (http://tisue.net/jandek/discog#0754)