Terry Allen announces his new family band project Blood Sucking Maniacs

Terry Allen's multi-generational family band, Blood Sucking Maniacs release their self-titled debut April 24th. You've been warned!

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BEWARE 💀: Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, along with their children and grandchildren, are pleased to announce the self-titled debut (and double) album by their new project, BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, a multi-generational family band, out on April 24th. You can pre-order the album (the first release of all-new Terry Allen recordings since 2020’s “Just Like Moby Dick”) via Bandcamp right here here. Check out the first single, the eponymous theme song, “Blood Sucking Maniacs” below. Buy tickets to the May 21st album release show at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, dubbed "A Night With Blood Sucking Maniacs right here.

Blood Sucking Maniacs, the Allen family band, helmed by Terry  and Jo Harvey Allen, spans five generations and 121 years, including (among others) their sons Bukka Allen and Bale Creek Allen; grandsons Kru, Sled Allen, and Calder Allen; Panhandle Mystery Band mainstays Charlie Sexton, Lloyd Maines, and Richard Bowden, and frequent collaborator Will Sexton. The wild and wide-ranging songs collected on their eponymous album are miscellaneous and multiplex, comprising heartrending ballads and arch in-jokes on a spectrum from sublime to unabashedly sentimental. The unifying principle here is not so much blood harmony as blood entropy.

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The Allens will also perform two nights, in different configurations, at the fabulous Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, with the Truckload of Art Road Show (an intimate book reading/signing, concert, and discussion/Q&A) on March 26th and with the full Panhandle Mystery Band on March 27th. For more info on the Big Ears Festival, visit their site right here. See y’all there.

For more information about Terry Allen, his music and artwork, visit his site right here. Listen to "Blood Sucking Maniacs" below.