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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
With Mecca Normal’s 1991 album Water Cuts My Hands being released for the first time in the digital realm, I’m noticing some of the same lyrical themes on 1997’s Who Shot Elvis?, but from a more nuanced stance. I’m pretty sure David’s fantastically intense illustration is more about the difficulty of voicing perspectives, but maybe it can also be interpreted as the importance of simply being visible as a form of resistance.
“Who Shot Elvis?” from Who Shot Elvis? (Matador, 1997) (download):
