Jandek is American musician Sterling Richard Smith (born 26 October 1945 in Houston, Texas). Since 1978, he has self-released more than 70 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute
folk and
blues songs. Jandek plays a very strange and frequently atonal form of
folk and
blues music, often using an open and unconventional chord structure. Jandek's music is unique, but his lyrics closely mirror the
country blues and
folk traditions of Eastern Texas. Barely a handful of people claim to have contacted Jandek, whose steadfastness in anonymity is legendary. Without any convention…
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