Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 36-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
“Smith verges on dark poetic license. Consider this from ‘Medieval Man,’ off their latest Matador disc, Who Shot Elvis?: ‘When the candle flares/In a draftless room/I can only assume/It’s the gasoline on your breath.’ Not typical radio fodder. And Mecca Normal couldn’t care less.” —Drop D
“Medieval Man” from Who Shot Elvis? (Matador, 1997) (download):
