Saturday is lost classics day and today’s selection is a recommendation from Faux, Jr. Terry Allen is a Country Music artist and visual artist from Lubbock, Texas. He has released 14 albums during his 50-year career, and he has various works of art on display around the world. His second album is titled Lubbock (on Everything) and was released in 1979 as a double album. It features fellow Lubbock musician Joe Ely on harmonica and includes several songs that were covered by other artists. There is humor in many of the songs, and stories of truckers, diners, waitresses, and art are sprinkled throughout 21 tracks that showcase lyrics very different than most Country Music of the era. For example, “Truckload of Art” tells the true story of a truckload of art that was deployed from New York in 1969 to travel to the West Coast to show California artists what real art looks like. The truck crashed and burned on the highway while en route. The rest of the album is a collection of tunes that define the sound known as Texas Country which was pioneered in the 1970s by artists such as Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Kinky Friedman, and Jerry Jeff Walker. This movement is closely associated with the Outlaw Country of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, and David Allen Coe, who were all attempting to move away from the dominant Nashville Sound of Country Music in the early 1970s. The greatest songwriter of the Texas Country movement was Townes Van Zandt, who then greatly influenced the music of Steve Earle. Earle is the current icon of the Texas Country sound, although there are now hundreds of popular artists who can track their lineage back to the music pioneered by Terry Allen and his contemporaries.
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