Terry Allen - Lubbock (On Everything) [1979][EAC/FLAC]

FLAC / Lossless / Log 100%/ Cue
Label/Cat#:Sugar Hill #SHCD 1047
Country: USA
Year: January 24, 1995
Genre: country
Format: CD,Album





1. Amarillo Highway 3:52
2. Highplains Jamboree 3:26
3. Great Joe Bob (a regional tragedy) 4:34
4. The Wolfman of del Rio 5:30
5. Lubbock Woman 3:32
6. The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma 4:12
7. Truckload of art 5:17
8. Collector (and the Art Mob) 2:01
9. Oui (A French Song) 2:17
10. Rendevouz USA 2:38
11. Cocktails for Three 2:52
12. The Beautiful Waitress 5:32
13. Blue Asian Reds 3:42
14. New Delhi Freight Train 7:21
15. FFA 1:09
16. Flatland Farmer 4:08
17. My Amigo 3:14
18. The Pink and Black Song 4:02
19. The Thirty Years Waltz 6:22
20. I Just Left Myself 2:07




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.