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 37-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
In some ways it feels like I wrote this song long ago, yet, in another way, time compresses and long-held ideas about interpersonal relations and art-making go spinning off into the still-unknowable future.
“Not With You” from Mecca Normal (Smarten UP!, 1986; reissued by K, 1995) (download):