Lubbock [Original recording reissued]

Terry Allen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000EXB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,955 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #90 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Alt-Country & Americana

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars talk about an original, November 16, 2000

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m_noland "m_noland" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lubbock (Audio CD)

There's a beer company that is currently running an ad campaign that features a bunch of old jocks who are supposed to be "originals" and somehow drinking this beer is supposed to make you "an original" too. Naw, that ain't original. This is original. This CD defines original. The graphic on the picture dictionary entry for "original" ought to be the cover of "Lubbock on Everything."

I can't imagine who would have played this when it came out. Country radio wouldn't touch this with a barge pole. Same for rock. Maybe a "progressive country" station or two in Texas. Its a wonder that it even got made in the first place. Still have never heard it on the radio, web or otherwise.

I bought this disk because a buddy of mine from Texas swore that this was "like, the greatest record ever made" and forced his band to cover "The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma." I don't know if its the greatest record ever made, but it certainly fits into a handful that I have heard (Conlon Nancarrow, Captain Beefheart) that reflect one pretty unique vision.

The instrumentation is pretty conventional country, and Allen has an adequate, limited voice, and a West Texas twang. But, Lord, what songs. The man has a real eye for characterization, and the parody of "Wreck on the Highway" ("Truckload of Art") complete with dobro and yodeling may be the funniest song that I have ever heard.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, September 30, 2003

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Clark Stevenson (Mesquite, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lubbock (Audio CD)

I practically grew up listening to Terry Allen and Lubbock (On Everything) is the crown jewel in his canon. The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy) is the inspiration for songs written by Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen and others. If I had three CDs to take to a desert island, I'd take two of these in case the first got scratched. True piece of Americana.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You must own this album, July 30, 2003

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ernesttubb (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lubbock (Audio CD)

I once wrote (I'm a professional writer) that "Austin is where kids go when they're too weird to live in Texas, but too Texan to live anywhere else." Although Terry doesn't live in Austin, he is exactly the kind of person I was thinking of. Anyone who loves their Texas roots and yet doesn't quite fit in with the fundamentalist conformity will immediately identify with this album. Terry's lyrics say it best:

Well I may not wear a Stetson
But I'm willin' to bet, son
I'm just as big a Texan
As you are.
There's a girl in her bare feet
Asleep in the back seat
And that trunk's full of Pearl and Lone Star.