Terry Allen Week in LA: Concerts, Book Events, Art, and More

L.A. Louver will be exhibiting Terry Allen‘s artwork in an intimate career-spanning survey of drawings, sculpture, and mixed media works at the Frieze LA art fair at Santa Monica Airport Feb. 29-Mar. 3. Terry and the full Panhandle Mystery Band will play two special concerts—naturally titled BEYOND THE GRAVE!—at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Feb. 28 and 29. Tickets are available here. MARCH 1 at Stories (Echo Park) Due to late-breaking logistical issues with the concert venue, the Truckload of Art book reading will now take place instead at the excellent bookstore Stories in Echo Park, on Friday, March 1 at 7pm, with a reading by Brendan Greaves and a conversation with Terry and our dear friend, art dealer Nina Johnson. This is a free event, open to the public, with opportunities for signed bookplates and preorders. Many thanks to the wonderful folks at Stories for enthusiastically accommodating us at the last minute. Details here. MARCH 2 at Frieze (Santa Monica Airport) For those with Frieze passes, Terry and Brendan will also be at L.A. Louver‘s booth at the Santa Monica Airport on Saturday, March 2 at 2pm, for a meet-and-greet, bookplate signing, and casual conversations about Truckload of Art and Terry’s Frieze mini-retrospective There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California. Details here.

Missing Footsteps, 1988

Gonna California EP (PoB-076)

Gonna California imagines an alternate reality where Allen’s long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a proper release. (Instead nearly the entire pressing was destroyed by a fire set by the so-called “Hollywood Arsonist,” and remaining copies were repurposed in artworks.) This first-ever (re)issue edition, limited to 500 copies, features recently rediscovered and remastered early (and superior) mixes of both songs; the original liner notes by Allen; an excerpt from the book; a lyrics insert; and Allen’s contemporaneous visual art in an arresting gatefold jacket.

Pre-order Gonna California vinyl 7″ or 7″+ book bundle from PoB:

$34.00

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Cowboy and the Stranger EP (PoB-054)

Comprising the first recording, in 2018, of a song written in 1969 and three solo demo recordings dating to 1968—all previously unissued—Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and Paradise of Bachelors, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s 2019 retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver. Originally limited to an edition of 500 cassettes, it is now available digitally for the first time.

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Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen – Signed Copies Now Available

You can now order Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, the definitive, authorized biography of Terry Allen, written by PoB co-founder Brendan Greaves, direct from us ahead of its March 19, 2024 release by Hachette Books. The first batch of copies ordered directly from us will be signed by Allen and Greaves (while supplies last; we can’t guarantee that you will receive a signed copy). Signed copies are also available for pre-order from Flyleaf Books, also while supplies last.