Terry Allen: Smokin the Dummy - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Smokin the Dummy
Artist: Terry Allen
Label: Paradise Bachelors
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 843563140208
Genre: Country
Release Date: 2022-05-06
Number of Discs: 1

Recorded exactly two years after acclaimed visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen's masterpiece Lubbock (on everything), the feral follow-up Smokin the Dummy is less conceptually focused but more sonically and stylistically unified than it's predecessor-it's also rougher and rowdier, wilder and more wired, and altogether more menacingly rock and roll. The first album by Allen to share top billing with the Panhandle Mystery Band, here featuring Jesse Taylor on blistering lead guitar alongside the Maines brothers and Richard Bowden, Dummy documents a ferocious new band in fully telepathic, tornado-fueled flight, refining it's caliber, increasing it's range, and never looking down. This first-ever vinyl reissue, remastered from the original analog tapes, includes a gatefold jacket and inner sleeve with restored, new, and alternate art and photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen; an insert with lyrics, original notes, and Terry's letter to H.C. Westermann about the songs; and a high-res download code. No veteran country songwriter sounds more attuned to the national mood. His songs still feel like little guidebooks for staring down a harsh universe. - The Washington Post

Tracks:
1.1 The Heart of California (For Lowell George)
1.2 Cocaine Cowboy
1.3 Whatever Happened to Jesus (And Maybeline)?
1.4 Helena Montana
1.5 Texas Tears
1.6 Cajun Roll
1.7 Feelin Easy
1.8 The Night Café
1.9 Roll Truck Roll
1.10 Red Bird
1.11 The Lubbock Tornado (I Don't Know)