New Terry Allen SMOKIN shirt and Upcoming Show at Paramount Theatre

“Pink and Black is comin’ back” … in the glorious form of a SMOKIN-hot Terry Allen shirt, the newest addition to our collection of Terry couture and our fourth smoke-themed apparel design. Light it up! 

Designed by Terry himself with Noel Waggener, the shirts, featuring Bob the Dummy, commemorate our reissue of Smokin the Dummy (PoB-065) as well as the occasion of Panhandle Mystery Band’s upcoming annual performance at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on January 28, 2023.

Quantities, as always, are limited, so get your SMOKIN shirt today. Don’t be a dummy.

Sportin’ these new shirts, as the song goes, “Yeah … we’ll both be cool.”

SMOKIN Shirt (PoBmerch-008)

SMOKIN Sammy.

$25.00 – $30.00

Smokin the Dummy (1980, PoB-065)

$3.00 – $35.00

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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 its 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 its caliber, increasing its range, and never looking down. 

A weirdo country classic. A tremendous collection of rowdy honky-tonk stompers in which Allen takes a sort of defiant relish in the barrel-bottom lives he narrates … [with] something of the belligerent snarl of the 1970s outlaw country records of David Allen Coe or Johnny Paycheck. – Uncut

[By the 1980s], he’d already earned fans in David Byrne and Little Feat’s Lowell George, and it’s easy to hear why. Allen had a fever for much of the recording, but his Panhandle Mystery Band pushed him to new heights… The guitars are louder, the beat is wilder and Allen makes the journey sound almost metaphysical: “Jesus Christ on the dash / won’t keep it from the crash / and every curve’s just your nerves closing in.” The open road promises freedom, but in Allen’s hands, it can also be an existential trap. – NPR Music

Some of the strangest art-rock you ever heard … desperado dadaism. Dummy is environmental art at its best. – The Village Voice (1981)

Like The Grapes of Wrath revisited … masterfully done. Call it Lubbock New Wave. It’s going to offend some people, like the best rock and roll should. One of the best albums I’ve heard in a long time, period. Dazzling. – The L.A. Times (1981)