“The path that Allen chose was even wilier [than his country music contemporaries]: smuggling his outsider storytelling into the art world, leaning on his gnawing Texas twang to ground his imaginings in an uncivilized landscape. With Juarez, Allen conjures a still-Wild West, at once romantic and grotesque, nourishing and mystical.”– NPR 

“Grim, funny, epic and intimate all at once, Juarez belongs in a genre unto itself … timeless. His catalog, reaching back to 1975’s Juarez, has been uniformly eccentric and uncompromising, savage and beautiful, literate and guttural.”– Rolling Stone

“9/10. A lovingly remastered version of the nebulous country classic. This riveting artifact, now with Allen’s original artwork and extensive booklet, only improves with age. A thing of intense beauty.”  – Uncut

“Terry Allen’s Juarez is a cornerstone work of Americana. It’s a fascinating oddity streaked with sex, violence and sorrow, a sort of seedcorn of the Robert Rodriguez aesthetic, presented complete with the lithographs that accompanied the original.”– The Independent

“Seminal 70s recordings Juarez and Lubbock (On Everything) are resolute, meant to be absorbed in their entirety. With humor and a gift for songwriting, each finds Allen subtly giving the middle finger to any and all expectations of what Country is or should be.”– Aquarium Drunkard

“The music of Juarez is as unique as the man himself. Allen’s voice is incredible; he shifts from mellow Texas drawl to bloodcurdling intensity from line to line. Against the darkness of the material, Allen’s singing and songcraft manage to convey humor and warmth, elevating the story and music out of the realm of pulp.”– BOMB Magazine

“5 stars. A gripping, shocking, and seductive epic which haunts long after its 52 minutes… now able to radiate forever as one of the era’s greatest concept works. Working with Allen, PoB have done a spectacular restoration job, reissuing it as Allen could only have dreamed of then.” – Kris Needs, Shindig!

“This is barrio poetry writ widescreen … an atmosphere where Randy Newman’s Good Old Boys meets Dylan’s Desire, with Cormac McCarthy buying shots. Repeated listens will quickly have Juarez clawing at the brain and the heart.”– Record Collector Magazine

“The songs are vivid, desperate, poetic, and brutal, like the anti-Randy Newman.”– MOJO

Today’s rainbow is tomorrow’s tamale.

Is there any more potent and perfect koan? Not for our money here at PoB. In celebration of our deluxe, definitive reissues of Terry Allen’s Juarez (1975, PoB-26) and Lubbock (on everything) (1979, PoB-27), we are proud to present the Terry Allen Tamale T-shirt—as far as we know, the first such item to exist in the wold, and long overdue—featuring the immortal line from Juarez and the cover of that abiding masterpiece of music and visual art on the front, with the PoB logo tastefully deployed on the back.

Available in White or Slate, sizes XS through XL, these 100% cotton, American Apparel fine jersey short-sleeved t-shirts are screenprinted by hand in Philadelphia, in a very limited edition. Perceptive fashionistas will recognize this as the second installment in our grand tradition of apparel featuring hirsute smoking men.

$25.00