A New Breath

Space Ghosts

A tune I wrote about how I'd LIKE to be as I get older. I'm encouraging myself to keep doing this foolishness. Guitar is recorded while I sing (through the mic, no pickup). Then I added bass strings from the same guitar, via K&K Pure Mini pickup, run through a Fishman Loudbox amp with the Chorus and Reverb turned way up, digital out into the interface. I kinda like it. I'm a folkie so this is about as rock and roll as I get :)

Child Mind

Terry Allen
Pedal Steal + Four Corners 
LP + 3xCD w/book / digital
PoB-045
March 22, 2018

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Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and conceptual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Pedal Steal + Four Corners collects, for the first time, Allen’s radio plays and long-form narrative audio works—two and a half hours of cinematic songs, stories, and country-concrète sound collage—in a deluxe gatefold edition, including one LP, three CDs, a DL code, and an exhaustive 28pp. color booklet boasting the first in-depth essay to explore this singular body of work; dozens of images of Allen’s related visual art; and full scripts and credits for all five pieces (a total of 33k words.) Pedal Steal (1985), originally composed as a soundtrack to a dance performance, appears on vinyl for the first time, as well as on CD. Torso Hell (1986), Bleeder (1990), Reunion (a return to Juarez) (1992), and Dugout (1993) comprise the Four Corners suite, radio plays broadcast on NPR and never before released, now spanning two CDs. All audio has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes. Fans of Allen’s violent masterpiece Juarez will find much to love in these haunting Southwestern desert dramas, which feature Jo Harvey Allen, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Stones saxophonist Bobby Keyes, and many others. Roger Corman tried to option the film rights; Jesse Helms tried to ban them; now you can own them!

Navajo chants blend into fuzzed-up steel guitar; dirty-realist narratives succumb to skeletal ballads; B-movie dialogue blossoms over a plaintive violin. Pedal Steal represents roots rock’s rarely encountered experimental fringe. – The Times

Think Sam Shepard with steel guitar, and you'll get the idea. – The Independent

Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches. – Rolling Stone

Allen’s songs extract strangeness from the known world and use it as a means of acquiring greater knowledge. – The New Yorker

He’s pretty close to a master lyricist. – The NY Times

Riveting. – NPR

Stunning poetry. The lines themselves quiver with a raw vision rarely heard. – Pitchfork

I love Terry. He’s a funny son of a bitch. – Guy Clark

People tell me it’s country music, and I ask, “Which country?” – Terry Allen

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen

Child Mind

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