A new biography called "Truckload of Art" by Brandon Greaves details the life of visual artist and musician Terry Allen. Allen, who is eighty, grew up in Lubbock and lives in Santa Fe, and no living artist captures the darkness and light of the West as vividly as he does. As a musician in the seventies, he played festivals and wrote songs alongside the outlaw-country élite, releasing two albums of country-inflected world-building—“Juarez”...
As a musician in the seventies, he played festivals and wrote songs alongside the outlaw-country élite, releasing two albums of country-inflected world-building—“Juarez”... On his manifold fourth album, acclaimed songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen contemplates kinship—the ways sex and violence stitch and sever the ties of family, faith, and society—with skewering satire and affection alike. Bookman sprung from the mind and hands of Lubbock native and one-semester Texas Tech dropout Terry Allen, who is arguably the first of Lubbock’s legendary post-hippie semi-country...
Bookman sprung from the mind and hands of Lubbock native and one-semester Texas Tech dropout Terry Allen, who is arguably the first of Lubbock’s legendary post-hippie semi-country...
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