Perhaps no musician working today embodies the descriptors “outsider” or “cult artist” more than Jandek, who has been recording and releasing albums—over 125 of them to date—on his Corwood Industries record label since 1978. AllMusic has dubbed him “the most enigmatic figure in American music.” Based in Houston, Jandek, the subject of the 2003 documentary Jandek on Corwood, creates idiosyncratic, lo-fi music that draws impressionistically from electrified and semi-acoustic folk and blues. He pays this beyond-rare area visit to perform at an appropriate space, the historic Widow Jane Mine. (“Cement Town” gets staged July 5-6; Taiko Masala pounds July 27.)
