"She said she liked to draw horses, but couldn't draw the head, or the legs, or the tail, only the body. I said "you're drawing sausages." "No," she said, "I'm drawing horses."
Or something to that effect.
― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Friday, 24 June 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a fine album with help from Lucinda Williams and David Byrne, but in good ways.
― Taylor, Saturday, 25 June 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 June 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Haven't seen his art, though.
― pauls00, Saturday, 25 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link
his art is pretty cool, actually. i had a design professor who rather unexpectedly was a big terry allen fan (as in terry allen's art).
musicians who are also (or primarily) professional artists s/d??
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 June 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― the Ergotnaut, Saturday, 25 June 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Revive.
Terry Allen is a perfect example of why you should never stop digging. Jaurez completely blew my mind when i first heard it about four years back; i mean, how did i walk the earth for so long not knowing about this guy (same thing happen recently with the Sir Douglas Quintet). Not that Allen's super-incredible or anything; it's that something this gratifying took this long to discover (and why do so few include him in the canon?). I've since collected the majority of his catalog and consider him an essential artist.
I've come to see Allen as the guy who grabbed the mantle just as Waylon Jennings started to slide (after 1975's Dreaming My Dreams). His sound comes out of the outlaw tradition but the content is decidedly more esoteric and worldly.
Lubbock (On Everything) is the album i continually return to; his talent for storytelling may take the most literal path possible, but his anecdotes are laden with an honesty and humor that is both abundant and good-natured.
A recent clip of Terry doing the lead track off 1979's Lubbock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxPhx0yrf0
― suspecterrain, Friday, 18 November 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
New album is out; very good stuff.
http://www.silverdisc.com/images/634_634/634457577220.jpg
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:29 (ten years ago) link
Wow, he's still around.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
This is great news!
― JacobSanders, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
not sure what took me so long, but finally listened to lubbock (on everything) a couple weeks back and now its all i can listen to. really agree with the post upthread wrt him taking the mantle from Waylon.
the album is just so damn solid, like old no. 1 and honky tonk heroes are amazing and all, and i prefer them to it (though maybe that will change), but neither of them ever kept my attention as long as this.
― kruezer2, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
reissued on Paradise of Bachelors
http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allens-juarez-out-today-terry-allen-tamale-t-shirts-sale-other-news/
― niels, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 07:42 (seven years ago) link
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/terry-allen-pedal-steal-four-corners
riveting and hilarious
― j., Thursday, 4 April 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
thank you for this !
― budo jeru, Thursday, 4 April 2019 04:46 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4s6Q6XGVs
― budo jeru, Sunday, 11 December 2022 05:35 (one year ago) link
if they ever succeed in re-booting "king of the hill", perhaps they could get terry to stand in for tom petty in the role of Lucky