Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen incited anthology of fiction, cnf, verse and sketches, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, round about November.

And they met out on the highway At the Paradise Motel lounge... -"High Plains Jamboree," Terry Allen (1979) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQ8... Below: The Paradise (1976 installation created for The Great American Rodeo Show, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)

He just grinned and said "My friend, I know you might think it's odd But you got nothin to fear about drinkin a beer If you share it with the son of God" The Flatlanders do Terry Allen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2Z...

"I told her she was drawing sausages, not horses She said, 'No, they were horses'"

"She comes in and takes his hand. It’s time. Her fingers move lightly over his big knuckles like she is playing the piano..." Left: Terry Allen, HITTER, 1996 Right: ending of Terry Allen's radio play DUGOUT (the story of an old ballplayer's marriage to a barrelhouse piano player)

"She comes in and takes his hand. It’s time. Her fingers move lightly over his big knuckles like she is playing the piano..." Left: Terry Allen, HITTER, 1996 Right: ending of Terry Allen's radio play DUGOUT (the story of an old ballplayer's marriage to a barrelhouse piano player)

Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art Part 4 POSITIONS ON THE DESERT: Z, A, J and R (1990)

Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen inspired, incited and ignited anthology of good grit, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, this fall...

Ah but see how the lightning Makes cracks in your air Tearing the clouds Then closin the tear Yeah but you're not surprised anymore You're going home To Paradise Can't find anyone covering this, so Terry Allen does Terry Allen's "Cortez Sail" (the song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZR...

Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art Part 3 Left: THE CORTEZ SAIL, mixed media on Strathmore paper and acrylic box frame Right: Text from the radio play, REUNION (A RETURN TO JUAREZ)

"History exists temporarily, and people take place." This collection from Paradise of Bachelors of Terry Allen's radio plays made a huge impact on my own writing. Like Sam Shepard-who Allen is a stated fan of-it just showed me new possibilities for story telling. Anyway, spin #1 today:

"then a bird flew out of his chest then he remembered his childhood and the bird dropped dead in midair" Highly recommend the radio play/theatre piece Terry Allen wrote to accompany the exhibit. Here, his wife Jo Harvey Allen performs the piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNO...

In GHOST SHIP: RODEZ "Allen pursues a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright & actor Antonin Artaud during a 17-day journey restrained in the dark hold of the freighter Washington in 1937, & later, in various mental institutions." (From @LALOUVER)

Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art Part 2 Below: SEVERAL DISTURBING THINGS IN THE FUTURE (2009) from the GHOST SHIP RODEZ installation

Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art Part 1 from the ANTERABBIT/BLEEDER installation: FEATHER WISHBONE 1943, A PET BIRD NITE OWL

I've been born and I'm gonna die Blood red wing, you gonna make me fly -Terry Allen, "Red Bird" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpsH...) Below L: Terry Allen, WING, 1970-71 Below R: Terry Allen, RED WING, 2019

Terry Allen, JUAREZ DEVICE, 1969 – 1975 mixed media on paper and plexiglass

Look for Cowboys Jamboree’s anthology I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE with poetry and prose and art incited by Terry Allen’s JUAREZ suite this fall…

She had a boy With some guy from Fresno But oh, where he is now Well, none of us know... Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Dave Alvin do Terry Allen. (Alvin co-wrote the song with Terry & Jo Harvey Allen) youtube.com/watch?v=spZ5...

Some say you're dead in Heaven Others say you're dead in Hell They don't know what it means To be stuck in-between In the RED ANGEL MOTEL -RED ANGEL MOTEL by Terry Allen (2019; graphite, pastel, gouache, colored pencil, press type, collage)

Some say you're dead in Heaven Others say you're dead in Hell They don't know what it means To be stuck in-between In the RED ANGEL MOTEL -RED ANGEL MOTEL by Terry Allen (2019; graphite, pastel, gouache, colored pencil, press type, collage)

Half the world is screwed Other half’s insane So better break out the bottle Bring on the glass And fill it up with the good stuff Cause everything must pass …Just like Moby Dick "Sailin on Through" by Terry Allen artwork by Terry Allen from album below

Half the world is screwed Other half’s insane So better break out the bottle Bring on the glass And fill it up with the good stuff Cause everything must pass …Just like Moby Dick "Sailin on Through" by Terry Allen artwork by Terry Allen from album below

"In the dark, he mentions his mother. But then he tells her all about Japan…his tattoos. She kisses the ships on his arms..." from REUNION (A RETURN TO JUAREZ) by Terry Allen, 1992 below: WHEN SHE KISSES THE SHIP by Terry Allen, 1996

"In the dark, he mentions his mother. But then he tells her all about Japan…his tattoos. She kisses the ships on his arms..." from REUNION (A RETURN TO JUAREZ) by Terry Allen, 1992 below: WHEN SHE KISSES THE SHIP by Terry Allen, 1996

THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER COMPLETELY. NEITHER WOULD ADMIT IT. THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. -Terry Allen, "The Night Gorgeous George Died" from RING (1976-1981)

Kickin' off my Fall American Lit I course--which I teach as modern representations of early American Lit/culture--with the conquistadors and Terry Allen's "Cortez Sail" and The Cortez Sail.

"Just because you write something doesn't mean you have to understand it." -Terry Allen to Ryan Bingham on The Midnight Hour www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hcV...

Won't you give me my flowers while I'm livin' And let me enjoy them while I can? Don't wait 'til I'm ready to be buried And then slip some lilies in my hand... Terry Allen does Flatt and Scruggs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Ni...

Cool video here from @TheWittliff Collection's commemoration of Guy Clark and CAW CAW BLUES. Music from the great Lloyd Maines and @terrihendrix to open, then a conversation between Guy biographer/documentarian Tamara Saviano and Terry Allen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-S...

Guy Clark wanted his ashes put in a Terry Allen sculpture when he died. Allen created--w/ Guy's ashes included--CAW CAW BLUES, recalling Guy's fascination w/ a barb wire crow's nest. Rodney Crowell wrote a song about the nest, also called CAW CAW BLUES: www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Sb...

Terry Allen, ANCIENT, 2000-2001 (multi media installation that was part of the DUGOUT I installation, 2004)

'bout a week left on this call y'all

“Sailor meets Alice in a Tijuana bar/They get drunk/Fuck/Cry-to-believe together/and get married..." -Terry Allen, "Dialogue: The Characters (A Simple Story)" on the JUAREZ album Below, Terry Allen, MELODYLAND (ext & int) from the exhibition A SIMPLE STORY (JUAREZ), 1992

12 days left to submit to CJ's JUAREZ/Terry Allen incited anthology.

Yea, I'm crashin the state lines Headed for a high time this Sunday And I need your tattoo Next to mine when I do Ahhh, Chic Blundie -Terry Allen, "Dogwood" Below: Terry Allen, STAT ELINE (JUAREZ)

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I see Terry Allen's name there...wonder who submitted that? (Anyway, wish me luck.)

Terry Allen incited anthology call for subs: fiction, nonfiction and verse accepted. Deadline is July 15th.

Terry Allen, HOLDINGS, 1998

Yessssssssss…

The past moves faster than a grassfire And tomorrow can't come another day too soon -Terry Allen, "Late 1961 (or the 3701 28th St. Cowboy Blues)" (Performed at the opening of Al's Grand Hotel, an art installation and functioning hotel, for 7 weeks, by Allen Ruppersberg.)

Joe Ely, Terry Allen, Steve Earle and Rodney Crowell at Austin City Limits ...ah, to be a fly on the wall to hear those stories.

“Your life just turns into a bucket full of stories, with a little bitty hole in the bottom. . . . Or a bucket full of holes, with a little bitty story in the bottom.” -Terry Allen, DUGOUT

"Dugout is a made-up world, constructed & based on the true stories & lies I heard & experienced as a boy growing up in...Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented…a kind of Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.” -Terry Allen

"Only her fingers move…easily and in a rhythm…like she was playing a piano. Her mouth is painted…she smiles…red. And you can almost breathe…the goddamn 'St. Louis Blues.'" -Terry Allen, DUGOUT (radio play) Terry Allen, BOTTOM OF THE WORLD cover art (chair w/ piano keys):

Terry Allen turned ALL ARTISTS TRY TO BE GOD AND WILL BURN IN HELL into a branding iron. He branded it into Joe Ely's stool. A second branding iron, IRONY, was used to brand the header above @therealjoeely.bsky.social's door. (Courtesy EVERYTHING FOR ALL REASONS, dir. Scott Ballew)

Terry Allen turned ALL ARTISTS TRY TO BE GOD AND WILL BURN IN HELL into a branding iron. He branded it into Joe Ely's stool. A second branding iron, IRONY, was used to brand the header above @therealjoeely.bsky.social's door. (Courtesy EVERYTHING FOR ALL REASONS, dir. Scott Ballew)