Later On
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| Later On | ||
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| Studio album by Jandek | ||
| Released | 1981 | |
| Recorded | Unknown | |
| Genre | Blues / Folk Music / Outsider music | |
| Length | 41:58 | |
| Label | Corwood Industries | |
| Producer(s) | Corwood Industries | |
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| Jandek chronology | ||
| Six and Six (1981) |
Later On (1981) |
Chair Beside a Window (1982) |
Later On is the third release by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, and the second released by Corwood Industries (#0741) in 1981. It was reissued on CD in 2000.
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[edit] Overview
As with the prior Six and Six (and most of Ready for the House), this is a stark acoustic and vocals album with surprisingly heavy roots in the Delta blues. This time, though, the pace is picked up a bit, and the opener "Your Condition" must have come as a bit of a surprise to the few people listening at the time of release. The singer repeats variations of the phrase "well, that's your condition" over a crazed, picked blues for five and a half minutes. This leads into the slow, depressed "What Did I Hear," which would fit well on the previous album.
It's this variation that distinguishes Later On from its predecessors, and seems to show the artist developing his style. The album also includes the very Dylan-esque ballad "Jessica" and the whimsical "So Fly, Max." "Jackson's Gone Down the Mississippi" may reference the Civil War general, though in a very tongue-in-cheek way. "Now Jackson's in the Atlantic ocean," it says - so we're heading south. In fact, WAY south, as the singer has Jackson "sail to some other land" and, as advice, "look up to the skies/there's a reason for your eyes." There's also "The Janitor," about a guy who "thinks about dirt a lot," doesn't take care of his backyard and should consider how he fixes his hair. But hold the laugh - the song twists with the line "it's enough to make me sick/you should live life more naturally." Hard to say how this song is to be taken, though its sequel would arrive eight years later on the band album The Living End called, cryptically, "Janitor's Dead."
In fact, unlike the first two albums, people are all over this record, giving license to the idea that the Man From Corwood has met a few folks (hard to say if "John Came" references the same John who plays drums a few years later, but there you have it). And other people would start to show up on Jandek records, beginning with the next album, Chair Beside a Window.
[edit] Track listing
- Your Condition – 5:29
- What Did I Hear – 4:41
- Just Whisper – 3:48
- Oh Jenny – 3:55
- Until Then – 2:40
- So Fly, Max – 2:55
- The Janitor – 3:29
- Don't Know if I Care – 2:22
- Jessica – 2:36
- Jackson's Gone Down the Mississippi – 2:42
- The Second End – 3:21
[edit] Miscellanea
Another photograph from the same roll appeared ten years later as the front cover of One Foot in the North.
