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.
Sometimes song lyrics are so specific that they open doors in listeners’ minds. Beyond those doors, it seems the listener hones scenarios and characters into idiosyncratic constructs that they believe the song created, but it didn’t. They did.
“In Canada” from Who Shot Elvis? (Matador, 1997) (download):
