Jandek spent the first 26 years of his career removed from the very human perils of live performance. During those decades, the prolific Houston songwriter/ improviser/ label head did just two ...

Jandek from the cover of the ‘Follow Your Own Footseps’ album. Credit: Photo courtesy the makers of the ‘Jandek on Corwood’ film. One surefire way to tell if a person who has a lot of records is also ...

Many people are famous just for being famous. But singer-songwriter Jandek has shunned recognition to such a degree that, intentionally or not, he's developed a kind of celebrity all his own. Jandek's ...

Who doesn’t love a good mystery? In the early 90s, when the dubious term “outsider artist” was still in fashion, Jandek personified it: this enigmatic folk-blues singer-songwriter sounded like he’d ...

“SXSW Film and SXSW Music are pleased to be able to present a world premiere screening of Duality of Self, a record of Jandek‘s September 17, 2007 performance in Toronto captured on a five-camera ...

Is there a greater enigma in music than Jandek? This outsider’s outsider makes the Residents look like Rock and Roll Hall of Fame contenders by comparison. Since 1978, without fanfare, he has ...

Jandek is the quintessential outsider artist. To a general audience, the Houston-based avant-folk misanthrope's work is the perfect example of fart-on-snare-drum noodling lauded as art—the kind of ...