More Lubbock (Terry Allen)

[Ted Samsel]

Here's some more info on noted former Lubbock-ite, Terry Allen.
Think he lives in Santa Fe nowadays.

Forwarded message:
> To: "Country Music list" <COUNTRY-L at rmgate.pop.indiana.edu>
> Subject: Re: Lubbock/children in the band
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 05:13:06 -0800
> 
> You wrote: 
> >Terry Allen has a new CD out. Has anyone
> >heard it? ….Is it as good as Lubbock (On Everything)
> <snip>
> >a session down at the conservatorium of music. They didn’t
> >reckon on what they thought they would get from a artist from Texas. 
> >Apparently he played Lubbock the hole lot, solo acoustic to a audience
> >of nit wits 
> 
> Terry plays a lot of Art Museums in UnitedSofA, cuz of his exhibitions. 
> Lots of foax who wouldn't know Guy Clark from Garth Brooks know who Terry 
> is because of the art museum connection.  The audience is usually about 
> half redneck and half "art mob" for whom he wrote that caustic song.  He 
> usually refrains from playing "Truckload of Art" and "The Art Mob's Out 
> Tonight" at those gigs. 
> The new CD is quite good.  Some radio stations may shy away from it 
> because of the language--a "forbidden" word on the first cut, frinstance. 
> Lloyd Maines' playing on the CD is more than enuf justification for the 
> price.
> 
> Last time he was in Dallas, his son, Bukka, played accordion and congas in 
> his band. So how many Texas foax have their children in their bands?
> Guy Clark - Travis
> Billy Joe Shaver - Eddy
> Kimmie Rhodes - Gabe
> Terry Allen - Bukka and Bale, sometimes
> Lloyd Maines (who's in his daughter's studio band)
> 
> I've heard rumors about the following children appearing in their parents' 
> bands: Steve Fromholz's daughter, Darcy; Eliza Gilkyson's children, Delia 
> & Cisco; Jerry Jeff Walker's son, Django; Steve Earle's son, Justin (?) 
> Townes.  Anyone want to elaborate, clarify?

Them younguns. Think I'll buy my boy a double stack Marshall amp.
Yessir!

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