NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Jandek on 30 January 2022. Jandek has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 23 April 2015. Jandek's music has been featured on 35 episodes.

Jandek is American musician Sterling Richard Smith (born 26 October 1945 in Houston, Texas). Since 1978, he has self-released more than 70 albums of unusual, often emotionally dissolute folk and blues songs.

Jandek plays a very strange and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, often using an open and unconventional chord structure. Jandek's music is unique, but his lyrics closely mirror the country blues and folk traditions of…