LP-Terry Allen-Lubbock on Everything '78 outsider folk swamp outsider DBL.

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(....LUBBOCK-ON EVERYTHING.....) by (TERRY ALLEN )...... ....(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. 1 Amarillo Highway Terry Allen Terry Allen 3:55 2 High Plains Jamboree Terry Allen Terry Allen 3:28 3 Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy) Terry Allen Terry Allen 4:38 4 The Wolfman of del Rio Terry Allen Terry Allen 5:34 5 Lubbock Woman Terry Allen Terry Allen 3:36 6 The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma Terry Allen Terry Allen 4:14 7 Truckload of Art Terry Allen Terry Allen 5:15 8 Collector (And the Art Mob) Terry Allen Terry Allen 2:02 9 Oui (A French Song) Terry Allen Terry Allen 2:20 10 Rendevouz USA Terry Allen Terry Allen 2:35 11 Cocktails for Three Terry Allen Terry Allen 2:50 12 The Beautiful Waitress Terry Allen Terry Allen 5:39 13 Blue Asian Reds Terry Allen Terry Allen 3:43 14 New Delhi Freight Train Terry Allen Terry Allen 7:40 15 Ffa Terry Allen Terry Allen 1:17 16 Flatland Farmer Terry Allen Terry Allen 4:23 17 My Amigo Terry Allen Terry Allen 3:15 18 The Pink and Black Song Terry Allen Terry Allen 4:03 19 The Thrity Years Waltz Terry Allen Terry Allen 6:19 20 I Just Left Myself Terry Allen Terry Allen 2:05 DBL. SET JACKET IS M- DISCS ARE M )........