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Terry Allen in Dallas, 2018. Terry Allen (born May 7, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from Lubbock, Texas.Allen's musical career spans several albums in the Texas country and outlaw country genres, and his visual art includes painting, conceptual art, performance, and sculpture, with a number of notable bronze sculptures installed publicly in various cities throughout ...
Mar 18, 2024 · In 2016, Allen created Road Angel which can be seen at The Contemporary Austin-Laguna Gloria. Photo by Brian Fitzsimmons/courtesy of The Contemporary Austin. Now comes Truckload of Art, a 500-page biography by Brendan Greaves, to explain it all. The first Terry Allen art I ever saw made me laugh out loud.
– Dave Hickey, to Terry Allen, regarding his album Bloodlines, 1983 Since 1970, when they met in Allen’s studio in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, one of songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s great foils and friends was the sometimes cantankerous but always brilliant art critic and writer Dave Hickey, with whom he sparred on topics ...
Terry Allen is our modern Michelangelo—a painter, sculptor, and conceptualist informed by honky-tonk sensibilities and a singer-songwriter of incisive, vividly-depicted songs who knows his way around galleries and museums. His Florence is Lubbock, Texas, where a local boast was “Lubbock Has More Sky.”
Jan 4, 2022 · Rachel Monroe interviews the musician and artist Terry Allen, a native of Lubbock, Texas, about his outlaw-country career, his visual art, his long marriage and creative partnership with Jo Harvey ...
– Rodney Crowell / Terry Allen is my hero, and Brendan changed my life when he introduced us. It’s about time they change your life too. – Kurt Vile / Brendan Greaves is an unusually deft and perceptive historian of music and art, but he writes with so much heart and verve that after a few chapters, his prose starts to feel like its own ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen — An Authorized Biography. By Brendan Greaves. Hachette Books. 560 pages, $34. After the makeshift memorial, when everyone went home, Allen was ...
