Happy Birthday Terry Allen!

Cheers to singer/songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen on his birthday! We're celebrating with a few performances. 

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.

That time Lubbock singer/songwriter Terry Allen appeared on Shindig! in 1965

Watch Terry Allen perform "Red Bird" on Shindig! on August 4, 1965 and read about how it happened right here. 

Get a copy of Brendan Greaves' authorized Terry Allen biography Truckload Of Art via Paradise of Bachelors right here. 

One For The Weekend: Terry Allen

Here a recording of Terry Allen's "Gonna California" below. A 7-inch single version is being issued by Paradise of Bachelors. 

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In conjunction with Hachette Books' publication of Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, an authorized biography by Brendan Greaves, "Gonna California" imagines an alternate reality where Terry Allen’s long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a proper release. (Instead nearly the entire pressing was destroyed by a fire set by the so-called “Hollywood Arsonist,” and remaining copies were repurposed in artworks.) This first-ever (re)issue edition, limited to 500 copies, features recently rediscovered and remastered early (and superior) mixes of both songs; the original liner notes by Allen; an excerpt from the book; a lyrics insert; and Allen’s contemporaneous visual art in an arresting gatefold jacket. Pre-order a copy of "Gonna California" directly from Paradise of Bachelors right here. Listen to an alternate version below. 
 

Terry Allen biography "Truckload of Art" due in March

Claimed to be the definitive biography, Truckload of Art is slated for publication on March 19th. He's playing Austin on Feb. 2! 

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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen – written by Paradise of Bachelors label boss Brendan Greaves – is the definitive, authorized biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic musician whose work bridges the disparate worlds of contemporary art and country music.

Terry Allen is a songwriter, visual and recording artist, and playwright. He’s released more than a dozen studio albums since his 1975 debut, Juarez, and his wide-ranging artwork resides in collections around the world, including the Met, MoMA, and LACMA. Raised in Lubbock, Texas, since 1989 he has resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and collaborator, the performer and poet Jo Harvey Allen.

“People tell me it’s country music,” Terry Allen has joked, “and I ask, ‘Which country?’” For nearly sixty years, Allen’s inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing boundaries between disciplines and audiences by conjuring indelible stories out of the howling West Texas wind.

Pre-order a copy of the Terry Allen biography Truckload of Art via Paradise of Bachelors right here.

About the author: Brendan Greaves is founder and owner of the record label Paradise of Bachelors and has collaborated on numerous projects with Terry Allen, including Pedal Steal + Four Corners, for which he earned a Grammy nomination for Best Album Notes. A folklorist, essayist, and lapsed art worker, he studied at Harvard and UNC, and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

TRUCKLOAD OF ART: The Life and Work of Terry Allen—An Authorized Biography 

Hachette Books | March 19, 2024

$34 | Hardcover | 576 Pages | ISBN: 9780306924545

Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band play Austin's Paramount Theatre on Feb. 2. Get tickets right here.

Happy 80th Birthday Terry Allen!

Cheers to singer/songwriter deluxe Terry Allen on his 80th birthday. Here are a couple of his classics and two documentaries.

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Aquarium Drunkard An interview with Terry Allen

Merry Christmas from Terry Allen!

Here's the yuletide classic "Xmas on the Isthmus" off the fantastic Salivation album from Terry Allen cut back in 2006.  

Terry Allen pays tribute to his pal Guy Clark

Check out Terry Allen's 2-hour Caw Caw Blues salute to Guy Clark featuring guests Lloyd Maines and Terri Hendrix.  

Listen to "A Truckload of Art" by Terry Allen

You may recall hearing "A Truckload Of Art" coming out of a GTO in Monte Hellman's 1971 classic "Two-Lane Blacktop."

John Doe previews new album with "Never Coming Back" video

"Never Coming Back" is off John Doe's new album Fables In A Foreign Land out May 20th via Fat Possum. 

Watch a short film about Terry Allen's Lubbock (on Everything)

Terry Allen discusses his 1979 classic "Lubbock (on Everything) reissued by Paradise of Bachelors. 

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Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and visual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, his deeply moving (and hilarious) satirical second album, Lubbock (on Everything) – originally issued in 1979 – is a complex memory palace to his West Texas hometown of Lubbock. 

The Paradise Of Bachelors' reissue of Lubbock (on Everything) was produced in collaboration with the artist and meticulously remastered from the original analog tapes. This is the definitive edition: the first to correct the tape speed inconsistencies evident on all prior versions; the first U.S. vinyl reissue; the first CD to restore the full track listing; and the first to contextualize the record within Allen’s 50-year career. 

Deluxe 2×LP package includes tip-on gatefold jacket with lyrics, printed inner sleeves, download code, and 28 page book with related artwork and photos, an oral history by Allen, and essays by David Byrne, Lloyd Maines, and PoB. 2×CD edition features replica jacket, sleeves, and tipped-in 52 page booklet. 

Get a copy of Terry Allen's Lubbock (on Everything) right here. Watch the short documentary followed by an interview about his songwriting origins and performances of a few songs from the album including "New Delhi Freight Train" from 2016 along with "Amarillo Highway" and "My Amigo" for KUTX from 2017 below. 
 

One For The Weekend: Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band

Listen to "City of the Vampires" off Terry Allen's forthcoming album Just Like Moby Dick out January 24th on Paradise of Bachelors. 

Listen to Terry Allen's "Cowboy and The Stranger"

Here's the title track of a limited-run cassette of Terry Allen demos released by L.A. Louver to coincide with an exhibit of his drawings. 

Happy Birthday Terry Allen!

Cheers to West Texas songster and visual artist Terry Allen whose Pedal Steal + Four Corners is out now on Paradise of Bachelors. 

Terry Allen's Pedal Steal + Four Corners get long overdue proper release

Two and a half hours of Terry Allen's songs, stories and sound collages from 1985-93 have been issued by Paradise of Bachelors.

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Texas Monthly: The Final Chapter of Terry Allen's "Pedal Steal"

Happy Birthday Terry Allen!

Here's Terry singing "Red Bird" on Shindig in '65, "Maybe" at Al's Grand Hotel in '71 and Neil Young's "Old Man" in 2017.

Terry Allen's Bottom of the World view

Musician, writer and artist Terry Allen has just issued a great new album Bottom of the World

Happy Birthday Terry Allen!

Lubbock singer/songwriter and multi-media artist Terry Allen who turns 68 on Saturday previews his forthcoming album The Bottom Of The World with a song about his dog Little Queenie (co-written with Guy Clark) during his Storytellers at The Kessler performance at The Kessler Theatre in Dallas on November 6, 2010.

Little Queenie by Terry Allen


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