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Artist:
Terry Allen
Title:
Lubbock (On Everything)



Details:
Although it's all but unknown outside of a devoted cult following Terry Allen's second album 1979's LUBBOCK (ON EVERYTHING) is one of the finest country albums of all time a progenitor of what would eventually be called alt-country. This is country music with a wink and a dry-as-West-Texas-dust sense of humour but at heart the album is a thoughtful meditation on Allen's hometown. Recorded in Lubbock after Allen hadn't lived there for close to a decade with a small group headed by local legends Don Caldwell and Lloyd Maines the songs alternate between biting character studies like "Lubbock Woman" and "The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)" about a high school football star who ends up robbing a liquor store and more loving tributes like "The Thirty Years War" and "The Wolfman of Del Rio." Salted through are a handful of songs about the pretensions of the art world (something Allen knows well in his day job as a sculptor and

Label: Sugar Hill

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008