Your Turn to Fall
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Your Turn to Fall is the seventh Jandek
album, and was released as Corwood 0745. It was reissued on CD in 2001.
and which appears in a more standard acoustic/vocal form as "Birthday" from The Rocks Crumble
. Here the principal artist plucks the guitar and sings, while one "John" plays the drums, something he doesn't seem to have done before, though the shambling rhythm produced fits the Jandek music style.
The rest of the album is, in a way, the end of an era. This is the seventh and final album in what might be considered Jandek's "first acoustic phase," and the remaining fifteen tracks build on the solo avant-blues of the prior four albums. Here Jandek steps more fully into the Delta sound of Charley Patton, though the songs are still picked on strings tuned to a peculiar "black key" sound accessible only to the player. He's also working on his voice, which uses more range here than on any Jandek release before it. Tracks like "If Your Fortune Fails You" (which echoes "First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely" from Ready for the House
) and the opening "Liquids Flow to the Sea" feature very controlled, and often menacing performances. From here the focus would be on band material, a phase which culminates in 1991's Lost Cause
and "The Electric End."
Jandek
Jandek is the musical project of an anonymous outsider musician who operates out of Houston, Texas. Since 1978, Jandek has self-released over 60 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs without ever granting more than the occasional interview or providing any biographical...
album, and was released as Corwood 0745. It was reissued on CD in 2001.
Overview
Your Turn to Fall marks something of a transition in Corwood history, for several reasons. For one, drums again appear on "John Plays Drums." Curiously, this turns out to be the same song sung by Nancy on "Nancy Sings" from Chair Beside a WindowChair Beside a Window
Chair Beside a Window is the fourth album by avant-folk/blues singer/songwriter Jandek, and Corwood Industries' first release of 1982 ....
and which appears in a more standard acoustic/vocal form as "Birthday" from The Rocks Crumble
The Rocks Crumble
The Rocks Crumble is the eighth Jandek album, released as Corwood 0746. It is his third release of 1983, and is the first Jandek album to feature extensive use of drums and electric guitar...
. Here the principal artist plucks the guitar and sings, while one "John" plays the drums, something he doesn't seem to have done before, though the shambling rhythm produced fits the Jandek music style.
The rest of the album is, in a way, the end of an era. This is the seventh and final album in what might be considered Jandek's "first acoustic phase," and the remaining fifteen tracks build on the solo avant-blues of the prior four albums. Here Jandek steps more fully into the Delta sound of Charley Patton, though the songs are still picked on strings tuned to a peculiar "black key" sound accessible only to the player. He's also working on his voice, which uses more range here than on any Jandek release before it. Tracks like "If Your Fortune Fails You" (which echoes "First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely" from Ready for the House
Ready for the House
Ready for the House is the debut album by Jandek, and was released in 1978 by his own Corwood Industries label, with the catalog number #0739. The artist has said in letters that the number was meaningless. Corwood Industries reissued the album three times on CD, first in 1999, then sometime in the...
) and the opening "Liquids Flow to the Sea" feature very controlled, and often menacing performances. From here the focus would be on band material, a phase which culminates in 1991's Lost Cause
Lost Cause (album)
Lost Cause is the twenty-first album by Jandek, and his only of 1992. Corwood Industries release #0759, it marks the end of the "electric phase" and, really, of an era...
and "The Electric End."
Track listing
- "Liquids Flow to the Sea" – 4:14
- "Elementary Talk" – 2:24
- "John Plays Drums" – 2:28
- "No Time" – 2:00
- "You Don't Have to Entertain Me" – 1:53
- "Decree" – 1:51
- "New String" – 2:18
- "Echo" – 2:43
- "Centaur Train" – 2:26
- "Dance of Death" – 2:22
- "If Your Fortune Fails You" – 2:58
- "I'll Come Back" – 2:52
- "About Today" – 2:08
- "Such a Thrill" – 1:35
- "Didn't Have To Cry" – 2:15
- "They Knew My Game" – 3:12