Terry Allen (Wichita, 7 maggio 1943) è un pittore e cantautore statunitense di genere country, più precisamente outlaw country ed artista concettuale.
Biografia
Figlio di Fletcher Mason "Sled" Allen (23 agosto 1886 - 16 ottobre 1959), ex giocatore di baseball ed allenatore nella Texas League , è cresciuto a Lubbock, Texas, dove ha frequentato la Monterey High School Con lui frequentarono la stessa scuola anche i musicisti Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore e Joe Ely.
Dopo gli studi in architettura e un B.F.A. ottenuto dal Chouinard Art Institute di Los Angeles intraprese la carriera di artista, ottenendo tre National Endowment for the Arts (finanziamenti da parte di un programma statunitense per l'incoraggiamento agli artisti eccellenti) e un premio Guggenheim Fellowship.
La sua opera Trees è installata nel campus della University of California San Diego come parte della Collezione Stuart. I suoi lavori sono stati esposti anche alla galleria di L.A. Louver in Venice, California.
Terry Allen oggi espone presso la Gallery Paule Anglim di San Francisco, e ha opere nelle collezioni di diversi musei internazionali, incluso il MOMA di New York, il Detroit Institute of Arts, il Nelson/Atkins Museum di Kansas City, il San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, il New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, l'Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, lo Houston Museum of Fine Arts, il San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, il Dallas Museum of Art, e il Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
Carriera da musicista
Ha registrato otto album tra il 1979 e il 2004, ha collaborato con David Byrne alla colonna sonora per il film di Byrne True Stories. Secondo AllMusic, il suo album del 1979 Lubbock (On Everything) è considerato il miglior album country mai prodotto.
Il suo album Human Remains contiene la canzone Galleria dele armi dedicata alla sciagura del treno 8017 avvenuta a Balvano.
Vive a Santa Fe, nel Nuovo Messico.
Discografia
- 1975 Juarez
- 1979 Lubbock (On Everything)
- 1980 Smoking the Dummy
- 1983 Bloodlines
- 1985 Pedal Steal
- 1987 Amerasia
- 1992 Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)
- 1995 Chippy con Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen, Butch Hancock, Wayne Hancock, Jo Harvey Allen, e Jo Carol Pierce
- 1996 Human Remains
- 1999 Salivation
- 2012 Live at Al's Grand Hotel. Recorded May 7, 1971
- 2013 Bottom of the World
- 2020 Just Like Moby Dick
Terry Allen (born May 7, 1943) 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.
Early life
He was born in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Allen's father was Fletcher ("Sled") Allen (August 23, 1886 in West Plains, Missouri – October 16, 1959 in Lubbock, Texas) a catcher in 1910 for the St. Louis Browns, who continued his career as a player-manager in the Texas League.
Allen attended Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas. His contemporaries at Monterey High School included Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Jo Harvey Allen and Jo Carol Pierce. Trained as an architect, he received a B.F.A. from the Chouinard Art Institute in 1966. After briefly teaching at his alma mater (1968-1969) and the University of California, Berkeley (1971), Allen served on the faculty of the California State University, Fresno as a guest lecturer (1971-1973), associate professor (1974-1977) and professor (1978-1979) of art before resigning his appointment to pursue other opportunities. His art has been supported by three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His work Trees (the music, literary and third trees) is installed on the campus of the University of California, San Diego as part of the Stuart Collection. His artwork has been featured at the L.A. Louver art gallery in Venice, California.
Visual artist
His works are represented in the collections of many international museums including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Musée Saint-Pierre, Lyon, France, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Contemporary Austin, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kansas City, Missouri is home to both his controversial public sculpture "Modern Communication" as well as The Belger Collection which features Terry Allen as one of their seven "core artists".
Music
Allen began his musical career learning to play piano from his mother, Pauline Pierce Allen, who was a professional piano player. In 1962, while in High School, he wrote his first song, "Red Bird", which he would go on to perform live on Shindig! in 1965, and recorded on his 1980 album, Smokin' the Dummy.
In 1975, Allen released his debut, art-country album, Juarez, which is considered "one of the greatest concept albums of all time" according to PopMatters while Rolling Stone called it an "outlaw classic".
The 1979 follow up, was the groundbreaking, Lubbock (On Everything). His deeply moving and satirical lyrics capture his complex memory of growing up in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas. According to AllMusic, Lubbock (On Everything) is "one of the finest country albums of all time" and a progenitor of the alt-country movement. His song "New Delhi Freight Train", from Lubbock (On Everything), was first recorded by Little Feat in 1977 on their album, Time Loves a Hero. Guy Clark says, "It's such an interesting piece of work... It's the juxtaposition of the song."
In 1980, Allen released, Smokin' the Dummy, which he recorded with the Panhandle Mystery Band.
His 1983 album, Bloodlines, includes one of his most well-known songs, "Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy", which [includes] themes of hitchhiking and the road.
In 1986, he collaborated with David Byrne on the soundtrack for Byrne's movie, True Stories.
Over the span of a decade (1985-1995), Allen released several avant-garde albums, Pedal Steal, Amerasia and Chippy (a collaboration with Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock), which crossover to visual, theatrical and musical medium interpretations.
In 1996, he released the country album, Human Remains, which features guest spots from David Byrne, Joe Ely, Charlie and Will Sexton and Lucinda Williams.
In 2007, Allen did a guest spot on the track "Ghost of Travelin' Jones" on Ryan Bingham's album, Mescalito.
Allen's 2013 album, Bottom of the World, features his Guy Clark co-write, "Queenie's Song", inspired by the death of his dog.
Discography
- Juarez (1975)
- Lubbock (On Everything) (1979)
- Smokin' the Dummy (1980)
- Bloodlines (1983)
- Pedal Steal (1985)
- Amerasia (1987)
- Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits) (1992)
- Chippy (1995)
- Human Remains (1996)
- Salivation (1999)
- Live at Al's Grand Hotel. Recorded May 7, 1971 (2012)
- Bottom of the World (2013)
- Pedal Steal + Four Corners (2019)
- Just Like Moby Dick (2020)
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Terry Allen - The Juarez Device (aka Texican Badman) (Official Audio)1:24
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Terry Allen - Dialogue: The Characters (a simple story) (Official Audio)2:09
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Terry Allen - Amarillo Highway (For Dave Hickey) (Official Audio)4:00
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Terry Allen - High Plains Jamboree (Official Audio)3:34
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Terry Allen + The Panhandle Mystery Band - Pedal Steal + Four Corners: Unboxing1:50
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Terry Allen + The Panhandle Mystery Band - "Pedal Steal: Chapter 1" (Official Audio)9:51
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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band – Just Like Moby Dick (Official Unboxing Video)1:14
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Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band - "Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualists" (Official)4:06
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