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 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
The seemingly endless story of poverty, homelessness and hunger could have been solved in the 40-plus years since we wrote this song, but that would have meant re-focusing away from the profit and greed that have ramped up to excruciating levels of cruelty.
“Are You Hungry Joe?” from Mecca Normal (Smarten Up!, 1986) (download):
