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About Terry Allen
Hometown
Wichita, KS, United States
Born
May 7, 1943
Genre
Country
Raised in Lubbock, Texas, along with fellow country iconoclasts the Flatlanders and Carol Jo Pierce, Terry Allen is as renowned for his multi-media art (and specifically sculpture) as he is for his hardhitting, literate country music. On albums such as the 1979 certified classic, LUBBOCK (ON EVERYTHING), and its outlaw follow-up, SMOKIN' THE DUMMY, Allen overturned country norms with a conceptual approach to narrative and song structure, a sardonic attitude, and experimental-yet-rootsy arrangements. Counting session ace Lloyd Maines and Talking Head David Byrne among his collaborators, he recorded thinking man's Americana and enjoyed a successful art career throughout the '80s, '90s, and '00s.
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