Smokin the Dummy / Bloodlines

Terry Allen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000EXS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Music for driving the open road., June 25, 1999

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This review is from: Smokin the Dummy / Bloodlines (Audio CD)

My brother-in-law and I recently drove a 24-foot International diesel moving truck cross-country. He brought along Smokin the Dummy, and boy, I just can't imagine a better set of songs to accompany that type of chore. When you hit your 14th hour on the road, and you're bouncing your kidnies into old age, all you can do is laugh. When you're dragging ass out of the sack in some cheap midwestern fleabag, drinking bad coffee and holding a stale donut, all you can do is laugh. After 800 miles of flat prarie interstate and you're blind to everything but the imagined taste of a cold beer, all you can do is laugh. That's what this album did for us. And set to this album, our trip was truly a case of life imitating art. It was life on the road, dirty, ugly, smelly, funny. And Terry Allen put it all in just the right context for us to enjoy the heck out of every minute.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars alt.country before there was alt.country, March 10, 2002

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

This review is from: Smokin the Dummy / Bloodlines (Audio CD)

There is something wonderfully weird about the bent observations of the lyrics delivered in a West Texas twang to the accompaniment of a simple 4/4 beat, parlor piano, and pedal steel. One can see why Terry Allen is David Byrne's favorite Texan. Although never reaching the oddball grandeur of Allen's true masterpiece, "Lubbock (On Everything)," this two-fer nevertheless has its moments, including the delightful "Gimme a Ride to Heaven, Boy," still a staple of Flatlander live shows.

There are surely Waylon Jennings tribute albums in the works; maybe Robbie Fulks or some other country insurgent ought to cover "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" as "Are You Sure Terry Allen Did It This Way?" - he's the grandfather of them all.

4.0 out of 5 stars this guy keeps growing on me.., April 14, 2011

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Robert L. Mallard Jr. (Maine..) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smokin the Dummy / Bloodlines (Audio CD)

as a collector of Texas music, TA somehow eluded me.. SUre I have him on some various artist CDs--and one video.. I loved Joe Ely and Robert Earl Keens covers of his music.. But I just never pulled the trigger.. This is my 4wth TA cd in less than a month.. It did not disappoint.. Very solid..