{"title":"Terry Allen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"gonna-california-2","title":"Gonna California","description":"\u003cp\u003eRIYL: Dave Alvin, Ryan Bingham, Bobby Bare, David Byrne, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Guy Clark, the Chicks, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, Little Feat…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first-ever release of the long-lost first-ever studio recordings by the internationally celebrated visual artist and iconoclastic musician whose work bridges the disparate worlds of contemporary art and country music. The deluxe gatefold 7\" vinyl edition, limited to 500 copies, features recently rediscovered and restored early (and superior) mixes of both songs; a printed inner sleeve with original liner notes by Allen and an excerpt from the book; a lyrics insert; and Allen’s contemporaneous visual art in an arresting package. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in conjunction with the publication of Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, by Brendan Greaves (New York: Hachette Books, 2024). Gonna California imagines an alternate reality where Allen's long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a proper release. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paradise of Bachelors","offers":[{"title":"Black 7\"","offer_id":50402507030859,"sku":"2179453","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Terry_Allen_-_Gonna_California_7_1b2888d6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726547765"},{"product_id":"lubbock-on-everything","title":"Lubbock (On Everything)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendary 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 to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, his deeply moving (and hilarious) satirical second album, a complex memory palace to his West Texas hometown Lubbock, is often cited as the urtext of alt-country. 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. Just four years separate Terry Allen's first and second albums and consecutive masterpieces, \u003ci\u003eJuarez \u003c\/i\u003e(1975) and \u003ci\u003eLubbock (on everything) \u003c\/i\u003e (1979), but the two records inhabit completely different systems of world building, wildly divergent in terms of sonics, scope, and circumstance. Arguably Allen's most widely beloved and most easily approachable album - it contains his 2 best-known and most covered songs, \u003ci\u003eAmarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Delhi Freight Train\u003c\/i\u003e (famously first recorded by Little Feat) - Lubbock (on everything) is his complex memory palace to his West Texas hometown. Compared to its sparsely produced predecessor, it represents a much more collaborative, even collective, effort with a local Lubbock studio band, complete with rhythm section, pedal steel, fiddle, and horns, and helmed by master guitarist Lloyd Maines, who became Terry's frequent musical partner, producer, and the de facto bandleader of the Panhandle Mystery Band. Even if Allen's music is more accurately described as art-country, Lubbock (on everything) sowed the seeds of alt-country's emergence a decade later. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2LP - Deluxe 2LP 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2CD - Double CD edition features replica jacket, sleeves, and tipped-in 52 page book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paradise of Bachelors","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50402717237579,"sku":"406273","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LPx2","offer_id":50402713829707,"sku":"406272","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c9442cdf-bb75-4b9d-8e97-3c2d6da9c5bf_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726554629"},{"product_id":"juarez","title":"Juarez","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegendary 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 to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widely celebrated as a masterpiece - arguably the greatest concept album of all time - his spare, haunting 1975 debut LP Juarez is a violent, fractured tale of the chthonic American Southwest and borderlands. Produced in collaboration with the artist and remastered from the original analog tapes, this is the definitive edition of the art-country classic: the first reissue on vinyl; the first to feature the originally intended artwork (including the lithographs that accompanied the first edition); and the first to contextualize the album within Allen's fifty-year art practice. Juarez is not just an album, at least not in any ordinary sense of the word. Songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen describes it instead as a \"haunting.\" For nearly five decades, Juarez has served as the elusive, enigmatic axis mundi of his artistic and musical practices. Never discrete or static, the Juarez mythos continually accretes a growing constellation of new meanings, mutations, and manifestations, defying linearity and finality, appearing as drawings, constructions, songs, prints, installations, texts, a screenplay, a musical theater piece (co-written with David Byrne), a one-woman stage play, and an NPR radio play (both starring his wife, the actor and writer Jo Harvey Allen). Forty years later, 'Juarez' is widely regarded as Allen's first masterpiece, timelessly relevant, resonating with works of film and literature as much as other music, recalling the existential violence of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973) and informing successors like David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy (1992-98), and Roberto Bolano's 2666 (2004). 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