Today is the ninth anniversary of our very first release, Said I Had a Vision (two songs of which appear in the Oxford American’s new SC Music Issue.) Just in time, we’ve received our first Grammy nomination, for Best Album Notes for Terry Allen’s Pedal Steal + Four Corners. So there are ample reasons for celebration. Use coupon code KRAMPUS for 20% off all non-preorder items.
What a surprise to wake up to our first Grammy nomination, for our own Brendan Greaves’s exhaustive book accompanying Terry Allen’s collection of radio plays and long-form narrative audio works.
The Texas art-country legend shares “Death of the Last Stripper” and “City of the Vampires” along with details about his new 2xLP Panhandle Mystery Band record (featuring a vinyl engraving by the artist), Austin preview concert, documentary/concert film, Miami art exhibition, and Moby Dick t-shirt.
Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, the spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything) (1979) and his first set of new songs since 2013, explores all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells, featuring the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton, Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines.
When the circus comes to town / In the city of the vampires / And there’s nary a soul to be found / When the sun glints off the church spires / The citizens have all gone to their basement / To wait for the night time in their coffins / So you better go exercise the elephants / Ohh Ohh while you can
Cowboy and the Stranger celebrates the occasion of Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West on display at L.A. Louver this summer. Featuring previously unreleased Allen demos and songwriting work tapes spanning half a century (1968/2018), this cassette-only release is limited to an edition of 500 copies total.
Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and PoB, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver, Summer 2019. Limited to an edition of 500 cassettes. All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018.
Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and PoB, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver, Summer 2019. Limited to an edition of 500 cassettes. All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018.
Terry Allen’s Pedal Steal + Four Corners, our most deluxe and detailed release to date, is out worldwide today, in stores and streaming. Celebrate with the man himself at record release shows in Dallas (tonight) and Houston (March 30, with a meet and greet and album signing at Cactus Music the same day.)
The fourth and final installment of Pedal Steal—the stunning conclusion!—has premiered today via Texas Monthly on the eve of the March 22nd release of Pedal Steal + Four Corners. Listen and read an interview with Terry, get tickets for Dallas and Houston shows, and tune into WXYC tonight for a radio premiere of the entire 2.5 hour set.
