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. 

Here's the scoop...

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! 

Here's the scoop...

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.