Terry Allen

**Terry Allen** (born May 7, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American Texas country and outlaw country singer-songwriter, painter and conceptual artist from Lubbock, Texas. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has recorded twelve albums of original songs, including the landmark releases Juarez (1975) and Lubbock (on everything) (1979). His song "Amarillo Highway" has been covered by Bobby Bare, Sturgill Simpson and Robert Earl Keen. Other artists who have recorded Allen's songs include Guy Clark, Little Feat, David Byrne, Doug Sahm, Ricky Nelson, and Lucinda Williams. Rolling Stone magazine describes his catalog, reaching back to Juarez as "..uniformly eccentric and uncompromising, savage and beautiful, literate and guttural."

Allen also works with a wide variety of media including musical and theatrical performances, sculpture, painting, drawing and video, and installations which incorporate any and all of these media. His work has been shown throughout the United States and internationally.

## Links to Kershaw

In many quotations on the internet, Andy Kershaw has called the singer the best troubadour in the world.

In 1997 Kershaw appeared on Country Night, where he selected his favourite country song, Terry Allen's, 'Amarillo Highway'.

The singer has done several sessions for Kershaw's shows and been constantly played by the DJ on his programmes. Allen's track, Truckload Of Art, was nominated by Kershaw as one of his Desert Island Overspills on his 12 March 2007 show.

## Sessions

1. Recorded: 1986-04-29. First Broadcast: 15 May 1986

* Amarillo Highway / New Delhi Freight Train / Give Me a Ride To Heaven / Blue Asian Reds

2. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 15 September 1996. Repeated: 08 July 1999

* Amarillo Highway / The Wolfman Of Del Rio / Blood Lines / Wilderness Of The World / What Of Alicia / Buck Naked / Beautiful Waitress / Our Land / The Juarez Device / Flatland Boogie

3. Recorded: unknown. First Broadcast: 02 May 2004

* Billy The Boy / The Juarez Device / What Of Alicia / Ourland / The Burden / Back Out Of The World

## Other Shows Played

   1985
* 17 August 1985: Truckload Of Art (2xLP - Lubbock (On Everything)) Fate
* 17 October 1985: Gimme A Ride To Heaven Boys
* 24 October 1985: Blood Lines
* 26 December 1985: Gimme A Ride To Heaven Boy (LP - Bloodlines) Making Waves

1986
* 13 February 1986: Dogwood Tree
* 03 April 1986: Whatever Happened To Jesus (And Maybeline)
* 24 April 1986: The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy) (2xLP - Lubbock (On Everything)) Fate
* 01 May 1986: The Radio....And Real Life (LP - Juarez) Landfall

1987
* 01 January 1987: Bloodlines (LP - Bloodlines) Making Waves

1988
* 10 March 1988: The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy) (2xLP - Lubbock (On Everything)) Special Delivery

1992
* 19 September 1992: The Juarez Device (CD - Juarez) Topic Special Delivery
* 19 September 1992: Dogwood (CD - Juarez) Topic Special Delivery

1993
* 17 July 1993: Cocktail Desperado (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 24 July 1993: The Burden (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 24 July 1993: New Delhi Freight Train (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 24 July 1993: Big Ol White Boys (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 21 August 1993: Loneliness Rockin By Momma Lonesome Rose Lonely Road (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 11 September 1993: Home On The Range (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate 7453266
* 06 November 1993: New Delhi Freight Train (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Sugar Hill
* 18 December 1993: Future Farmer Of America (CD - Lubbock (On Everything)) Special Delivery
* 18 December 1993: Flatland Farmer (CD - Lubbock (On Everything)) Special Delivery

1994
* 01 January 1994: New Delhi Freight Train (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate
* 07 May 1994: The Burden (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate

1995
* 05 November 1995: Bloodlines

1996
* 18 February 1996: Buck Naked
* 17 March 1996: Gone To Texas
* 28 April 1996: Crisis Site 13 (CD - Human Remains) Sugar Hill
* 12 May 1996: New Delhi Freight Train (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate
* 04 August 1996: Back To Black
* 01 September 1996: That Kind Of Girl
* 29 September 1996: Flatland Boogie
* 03 November 1996: Truckload Of Art (CD - Lubbock (On Everything)) Special Delivery
* 29 December 1996: Amarillo Highway / The Wolfman Of Del Rio (session)

1998
* 23 March 1998: Dogwood (CD - Juarez) Fate

1999
* 18 March 1999: Billy The Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 18 March 1999: Southern Comfort (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 25 March 1999: X Mas On The Isthmus (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 01 April 1999: Rio Ticino (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 15 April 1999: Billy The Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 22 April 1999: Red Leg Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 29 April 1999: Salivation (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 17 June 1999: Billy The Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 30 December 1999: Billy The Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill

2000
* 03 February 2000: The Burden (CD - The Silent Majority) Fate

2001
* 11 May 2001: The Burden (CD - The Silent Majority - Terry Allen’s Greatest Missed Hits) Fate
* 29 June 2001: Wilderness Of This World (v/a CD - Concerts For A Landmine-Free World) Vanguard
* 14 December 2001: Truckload Of Art (2xLP - Lubbock (On Everything)) Fate

2003
* 04 July 2003: Bloodlines (v/a CD - Country Outlaws: Renegade Country Music) Union Square Music
* 07 December 2003: The Burden (CD - Amerasia) Sugar Hill

2004
* 21 March 2004: The Juarez Device (AKA Texican Badman) (CD - Juarez) Sugar Hill
* 21 March 2004: Dialogue: The Characters / A Simple Story (CD - Juarez) Sugar Hill
* 21 March 2004: Cortez Sail (CD - Juarez) Sugar Hill
* 11 April 2004: The Radio....And Real Life (CD - Juarez) Sugar Hill
* 18 April 2004: New Delhi Freight Train (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Sugar Hill
* 16 May 2004: Billy The Boy (CD - Salivation) Sugar Hill
* 06 June 2004: Truckload Of Art (CD - Lubbock (On Everything)) Sugar Hill
* 08 August 2004: Amarillo Highway (CD - Lubbock (On Everything)) Sugar Hill

2005
* 10 April 2005: Billy The Boy (session)
* 24 July 2005: Big Old White Boys (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Sugar Hill
* 28 August 2005: New Delhi Freight Train (CD - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Sugar Hill

2007
* 12 March 2007: Truckload Of Art (album - Lubbock (On Everything)) Fate

2021
* Andy Kershaw Podcast Episode 2: American Childhood II: Bad Kiss (album - Just Like Moby Dick) Paradise Of Bachelors
* Andy Kershaw Podcast Episode 3: Death Of The Last Stripper (CD - Just Like Moby Dick) Paradise Of Bachelors

2022
* Andy Kershaw Podcast Episode 11: Bloodlines (album - Bloodlines) Making Waves
* Andy Kershaw Podcast Episode 18: Big Ol White Boys (album - The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)) Fate

## External Links

* Wikipedia
* Discogs