Truckload of Art Publication Day

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Gonna California EP (PoB-076)

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Cowboy and the Stranger EP (PoB-054)

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Early Reviews for Truckload of Art
Masterful … An endlessly fascinating biography of an endlessly fascinating artist. – Booklist (starred review) [A] rollicking debut biography … a thrilling whirl … Scrupulous detail and raucous picaresque merge with evocative discussions of the artist’s work … It adds up to a fascinating portrait of an American original. – Publishers Weekly Dazzling … [Greaves’s] research is as meticulous and exhaustive as his writing is inspired … He deftly moves between biography and criticism, unpacking Allen’s famously inscrutable drawings and verses, capable of spooling in and out of one another for decades as if gliding along a Möbius strip, through empathetic understanding of where the artist has been … A true testament to commitment from both artist and biographer. – MOJO “[An] exhilarating investigation of a life spent in the act of constant creation … [Greaves] is a compassionate biographer with the perceptive eye of an art critic.” – Aquarium Drunkard In Greaves, Allen has found a meticulous and empathetic Boswell … Truckload emerges not as a standard tale of the rise and fall (or fall and rise) of a tortured genius outsider/outlaw, but a patient study in artistic process and memory, the cultural intricacies of the twentieth-century West, and in people, how they scar and save you, like the lightning in Allen’s song “Cortez Sail”—“tearing the clouds, then closing the tear.” – 4 Columns Greaves does an admirable job describing the ecumenical contexts and nuances of what are often indescribable works. But he does an even grander job, with clear but measured affection, getting onto the page the contexts and nuances of Terry Allen, an utterly unique figure at the crossroads … of American art, however you define it. – Garden and Gun With Greaves’s help, Allen tells his most compelling story yet, the story of his creative life. – Texas HighwaysTERRY ALLEN LINKS
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BRENDAN GREAVES LINKS
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