Lubbock (On Everything)

by Terry Allen

Overview

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 humor, but at heart, Lubbock (On Everything) 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 painter) that help keep the album's more cutting lines from sounding mean-spirited. A 20-song masterpiece, Lubbock (On Everything) is essential listening for anyone with an interest in the outer fringes of country music. ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date:	10/14/2016
Label:	Paradise Of Bachelors
UPC:	0616892340140
Rank:	39850

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)
2. High Plains Jamboree
3. The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)
4. The Wolfman of Del Rio
5. Lubbock Woman
6. The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma
7. Truckload of Art
8. The Collector (And the Art Mob)
9. Oui (A French Song)
10. Rendezvous USA

Disc 2

11. Cocktails for Three
12. The Beautiful Waitress
13. High Horse Momma
14. Blue Asian Reds (For Roadrunner)
15. New Delhi Freight Train
16. FFA
17. Flatland Farmer
18. My Amigo
19. The Pink and Black Song
20. The Thirty Years War Waltz (For Jo Harvey)
21. I Just Left Myself

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Terry Allen   Primary Artist,Vocals,Piano
Ponte Bone   Guest Artist
Joe Ely   Guest Artist,Harmonica
Jo Harvey Allen   Guest Artist,Vocal Harmony
Don Caldwell   Saxophone
Lloyd Maines   Dobro,Mandolin,Bell Tree,Pedal Steel,Tenor Banjo,Vocal Harmony,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Ponty Bone   Accordion
Jesse Taylor   Guitar
Alan Shinn   Jawbone,Marimba,Castanets,Percussion
Kenny Maines   Bass,Vocal Harmony
Tommy Anderson   Trumpet
Jimmy Sampson   Vocal Harmony
Russ Standefer   Tuba
Freddy Pride   Vocal Harmony
Luis Martinez   Guitar,Guitar
Suzanne Paulk   Vocal Harmony
Sylvester Rice   Vocal Harmony
Curtis McBride   Drums
Leslie Blackburn   Viola
Susan Allen   Violin
Mark Anthony   Trombone
Mike Austin   Vocal Harmony
Vincent Thomas   Vocal Harmony
Richard Bowden   Fiddle

Technical Credits

Don Caldwell   String Arrangements,Mastering,Engineer
Lloyd Maines   Engineer,Mastering
Jo Harvey Allen   Photography
Terry Allen   Composer
Dave Peabody   Photography