Burning Near the Highway
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Burning near the highway. Page dedicated to a truckload of art from Terry Allen. Today's rainbow is tomorrow's tamale. Curated by @vanwinkle.bsky.social of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @npcountrycovers.bsky.social.
Cause I been broke and I been throwed I been learned, damn, I should've knowed That Helena, Montana beats hell in a city gone cold -Terry Allen, "Helena Montana" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXD4... Below: Terry Allen, Visions Behind Glass (Billingsgate), 1983, and the artist's explanation
2 years ago today we lost a giant. Kris Kristofferson, June 22, 1936-September 28, 2024 Soon as I was better, I was movin' on Gettin' it together, gettin' good and gone
I was thinking about the radio plays of Terry Allen as I wrote this. I was thinking about the plays of Preston Jones as I wrote this. I was thinking about the plays of Annie Baker as I wrote this. I was thinking about the plays of Sam Shepard as I wrote this. a.co/d/0hCbQhfd
Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The novel that started it all for me here and in France, launched barrio noir, and became my first film option is just $2.99 right now! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...
Terry Allen plays piano and sings in the bed of a Chevy pickup in front of the Twin Towers in 1978. Photo scooped from Paradise of Bachelors.
Terry Allen artwork inspired by MOBY DICK.
Adam Van Winkle@vanwinkle.bsky.social · last mo.Goin thru MOBY DICK again to prep next week's American Lit I lecture on MOBY DICK and SEINFELD and Terry Allen's JUST LIKE MOBY DICK (@pofbachelors). Here's when I tried to promote COUNT THE DUST using contemporary reviews of Melville's novel.
Love this photo! Interview can be found here: reclinernotes.com/2024/04/29/i...
Interview with Brendan Greaves on Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen – An Authorized Biography
Despite releasing multiple records over his career and receiving generous critical acclaim as a visual artist, the work of Terry Allen in both music and the visual arts has felt like a secret that …
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The Village Voice calls this photo “Cadillac Heaven Lubbock.” But, Terry Allen’s biographer confirms in an interview with @reclinernotes.bsky.social that this photo is “Precious objects are scattered/All over the ground.” It’s staged with a Cadillac Allen traded a drawing with the former title for.
If you see Annie, better give her a lift Annie's been a-working on the midnight shift Buddy Holly woulda been 90 today. Here’s Joe Ely doing Buddy: youtu.be/yjU8vTBgf7A?...
Midnight Shift
YouTube video by Joe Ely - Topic
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Terry Allen / The Exact Moment (MemWars), 2018 - 2019 / mixed media on paper
Ever more relevant? I think not? Terry Allen, CIVILIZATION
I was thinking about Ed Ruscha and Terry Allen and Sam Shepard and Annie Baker and Preston Jones and a tiny place I know on the side of the road when I wrote this one. Give it a ride: a.co/d/020SnJ2L
Cowboy Jamboree is proud to carry on the literary legacy of the late great Sheldon Lee Compton. There's more to come, but today is the day to get a copy of Shel's new novel, THE OLD INVISIBLE. Discover the origins of Appalachian witch, Sister Hall: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-old-invi...
The Old Invisible
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Born on this day in 1943: the great Terry Allen. He's many things: he's one of my favorites artists, musicians, songwriters, and playwrights. Do yourself a favor and take a trip through his work. Pics I took of him and the band and the family @BigEarsFestival in Knoxville:
Cowboy Jamboree reviewed the latest Terry Allen and band and family collaboration, BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, before the album's recent release from Paradise of Bachelors. Good place to start your Terry Allen trip if you've yet to take it: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-music-rev...
CJ Music Review Blood Sucking Maniacs
BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS a stunning multi-generational multi-genre piece of heart CJ Music Review by Adam Van Winkle I listened to a radio interview with James McMurtry somewhere online in the...
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Adam Van Winkle@vanwinkle.bsky.social · 5mo agoBorn on this day in 1943: the great Terry Allen. He's many things: he's one of my favorites artists, musicians, songwriters, and playwrights. Do yourself a favor and take a trip through his work. Pics I took of him and the band and the family @BigEarsFestival in Knoxville:
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Listen and try not to think about the rivers that flow into you and out of you..." Check out CJ's music review of BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, a new album from Terry Allen and his gang (family), out today from Paradise of Bachelors: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-music-rev...
Members of the Allen clan talk about their new album, which is both a warming mediation on family and a far-reaching work of art. https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/terry-allen-family-new-album-blood-sucking-maniacs/
Terry Allen Thinks All Families Are ‘Blood Sucking Maniacs’ at Heart
Members of the Allen clan talk about their new album, which is both a warming mediation on family and a far-reaching work of art.
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"Listen and try not to think about the rivers that flow into you and out of you..." Check out CJ's music review of BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, a new album from Terry Allen and his gang (family), out today from Paradise of Bachelors: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-music-rev...
Cowboy Jamboree got an early listen on the new album, BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, from Terry Allen and Co. dropping tomorrow from Paradise of Bachelors. @vanwinkle.bsky.social gives you the goods on it in CJ's newest music review: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-music-rev...
Honored to get the sneak peek and crow about the new album from the Allen clan.
Cowboy Jamboree@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 6mo agoCowboy Jamboree got an early listen on the new album, BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS, from Terry Allen and Co. dropping tomorrow from Paradise of Bachelors. @vanwinkle.bsky.social gives you the goods on it in CJ's newest music review: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cj-music-rev...
Four days of little sleep, forgetting meals, and an abundance of remarkable musical performances, here's my report on taking in as much as I could at the 2026 Big Ears Festival. reclinernotes.com/2026/03/31/2...
2026 Big Ears Festival, March 26-29, 2026
Over-use of the word “community” can quickly turn the most open-hearted music lover into a cynic, especially those wary of corporate appropriation at every turn. Yet it’s hard to describe the peopl…
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The best image and description I could find for Terry Allen's ORNITHOPERA (DEVIL'S CONDO), a mixed media theatre piece w/ live chickens and crows. Both come from @artforum.com.
"That's the only way the game is played...with heart and for blood." It's opening day. From Terry Allen's DUGOUT, an artistic suite centered on significant "dugouts" in his family's past, including those of his minor leaguer dad, Sled Allen: THE BALL, FOR BLOOD, BASE, HERO
"That's the only way the game is played...with heart and for blood." It's opening day. From Terry Allen's DUGOUT, an artistic suite centered on significant "dugouts" in his family's past, including those of his minor leaguer dad, Sled Allen: THE BALL, FOR BLOOD, BASE, HERO
In "Cortez Sail" (1975) Terry Allen subs in the image of Cortés' brutal conquer of the Aztecs in place of the slaying of a newlywed couple in a travel trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZR... In 1992, he created THE PERFECT SHIP, an airstream with a conquistador ship frame around it.
In "Cortez Sail" (1975) Terry Allen subs in the image of Cortés' brutal conquer of the Aztecs in place of the slaying of a newlywed couple in a travel trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZR... In 1992, he created THE PERFECT SHIP, an airstream with a conquistador ship frame around it.
Studies and sketches and final installation pieces for Terry Allen’s The Paradise (1976), his first large-scale installation constructed for The Great American Rodeo Show, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 1976.
Studies and sketches and final installation pieces for Terry Allen’s The Paradise (1976), his first large-scale installation constructed for The Great American Rodeo Show, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, 1976.
Terry Allen, Untitled (The Last Lament), mixed-media: colored pencil, graphite, pastel, and gouache over a lithographic poster
Bring 'em to Stubb's youtu.be/VmiqXb1EDqI?...
Austin (In Situ)
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Burning Near the Highway@artark.bsky.social · 7mo agoBorn on this day in 1931, founder of Stubb's BBQ and supporter of great Texas music: C.B. Stubblefield. Below: C.B. w/ Terry Allen & Stubbs BBQ Statue by Terry Allen
Born on this day in 1931, founder of Stubb's BBQ and supporter of great Texas music: C.B. Stubblefield. Below: C.B. w/ Terry Allen & Stubbs BBQ Statue by Terry Allen
