Paradise of Bachelors
TERRY ALLEN - Lubbock (On Everything) 2LP
$71.95
Includes d/l code.
Double vinyl. Heavy-duty board gatefold jacket with lyrics, printed inner sleeves and an exhaustive 28pg booklet with related artwork and photos, an oral history by Allen, and essays by David Byrne, Lloyd Maines, and PoB.
Legendary 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.
5 stars; '50 Essential Albums of the 1970s.'
"Eccentric and uncompromising, savage and beautiful, literate and guttural." - Rolling Stone
"Raunchy, pithy, and deeply redolent." - Pitchfork
Double vinyl. Heavy-duty board gatefold jacket with lyrics, printed inner sleeves and an exhaustive 28pg booklet with related artwork and photos, an oral history by Allen, and essays by David Byrne, Lloyd Maines, and PoB.
Legendary 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.
5 stars; '50 Essential Albums of the 1970s.'
"Eccentric and uncompromising, savage and beautiful, literate and guttural." - Rolling Stone
"Raunchy, pithy, and deeply redolent." - Pitchfork
