+ Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; a gatefold jacket and inner sleeve with restored, new, and alternate art and photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen and friends; an insert with lyrics and original notes, and a high-res download code.
Includes unlimited streaming of Bloodlines
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$24USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
+ Deluxe CD edition features a trifold jacket and inner sleeve with original notes and restored, new, and alternate art and photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen and friends; and a six-panel insert with lyrics and alternate art.
Includes unlimited streaming of Bloodlines
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$15USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
+ Deluxe LP edition features 140g virgin vinyl; a gatefold jacket and inner sleeve with restored, new, and alternate art and photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen and friends; an insert with lyrics and original notes, and a high-res download code.
+ Deluxe CD edition features a trifold jacket and inner sleeve with original notes and restored, new, and alternate art and photos by Terry and Jo Harvey Allen and friends; and a six-panel insert with lyrics and alternate art.
Includes unlimited streaming of Bloodlines
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$35USDor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
“Pink and Black is comin’ back” … in the glorious form of a SMOKIN-hot Terry Allen shirt, the newest addition to our collection of Terry couture and our fourth smoke-themed apparel design. Light it up!
Designed by Terry himself with Noel Waggener, the shirts, featuring Bob the Dummy, commemorate our reissue of Smokin the Dummy (PoB-065) as well as the occasion of Panhandle Mystery Band’s annual performance at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on January 28, 2023.
Available in both breezy short-sleeved and cozy long-sleeved styles, in sizes XS through 2XL, these 100% cotton BELLA+CANVAS shirts are screen-printed by hand by eco-friendly Philadelphia shop Print Natural, in, appropriately, the color Natural, for a subtle but accurate nicotine-stain tint.
Quantities, as always, are limited, so get your SMOKIN shirt today. Don’t be a dummy.
Sportin’ these new shirts, as the song goes, “Yeah … we’ll both be cool.”
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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: "There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California" Bumper Sticker
Put some illegal vibrations on that bumper, and show the open road how you truly feel about SoCal. A ferocious full-band reprise of "There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California," originally released on Terry Allen's immortal 1975 debut album Juarez, appears on 1983's Bloodlines—you can buy our deluxe reissues of both records here.
Printed on thick, durable vinyl this 3" x 11.5" bumper sticker is resistant to scratches, sun, and water. (It's probably not resistant to switchblades, however; the fabulous Jo Harvey Allen brought the one pictured back from Tijuana; you can also find it on the back cover of Bloodlines.)
The song itself recounts a larcenous and murderous episode of Allen's multidisciplinary JUAREZ body of work, starring its antiheros, the Juarez-born pachuco Jabo and the bruja Chic Blundie. Don't get it twisted.
THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW AGAINST SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
chorus: WELL I’M GOIN BACK
GOIN HOME AGAIN
YEAH I’M GOIN BACK
TO MY OWN AGAIN
YEAH I’M GOIN BACK
AHHH TO MY HOME TOWN
THE ONE THAT PUT ME OUT
THE ONE THAT LAID ME DOWN
WELL I WIRED UP A CAR IN EAST FONTANA
I WAS A’HEADED FOR SAN BERDU
AHHH MY MIDNIGHT OIL
IT WAS ON THE BOIL
AN BOY I WAS A’BARREL’N THROUGH
THEN I TOOK A TURN
BUT I HIT THE CURB
AN SPUN OFF THE CENTER LANE
AN WHEN I HEARD THE CRASH
WELL I STOMPED THE GAS
AND I WAS BARREL’N THROUGH AGAIN
I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
YEAH
I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
AN I REMEMBER THE COP
WITH HIS SLICKED-BACK HAIR
WHEN HE TOLD ME
TO GET OUT A’HERE
AN I REMEMBER THE JUDGE
WITH HIS GOLD PLATED MOUTH
HE SAID “GO LIVE IN THE NORTH
YOU GOTTA DIE DOWN SOUTH”
YOU GONNA DIE DOWN SOUTH
chorus
I WENT FLYIN THROUGH SOUTH SAN BERDU
WITH MY MIND ON EAST L.A.
WHERE MY PACHUCO QUEEN
SHE’S COOKIN RE-FRIED BEANS
AN SHE’S WAITIN FOR ME TODAY
YEAH STOPPED ON OFF AT THE LIQUOR STORE
MADE EVERY BODY LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR
TOOK ALL THEIR WHISKEY
TOOK ALL THEIR BREAD
THEN SHOT OUT THEIR LIGHTS
JUST BEFORE I FLED
YEAH
I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
YEAH
I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
AN I REMEMBER THE BITCH
WHOSE BLACK TONGUE LIED
WHEN SHE TOLD ME
SHE’S DIS-SATISFIED
AN I REMEMBER HER DADDY
BIG AS A TRUCK
HE SAID “FUCK WITH ME BOY
IF YOU WANT TO FUCK”
YEAH, FUCK WITH ME BOY
IF YOU WANT TO FUCK
chorus
SO THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
AGAINST SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
YEAH THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
AGAINST PUTTIN THE DEVIL
BEHIND THE WHEEL …
CAUSE AS LONG AS YOU PEOPLE ARE GONNA SANCTION SUCH AN EVIL
WELL I’M GONNA TURN YOUR ASPHALT
BACK INTO BRIMSTONE
YEAH YOU GOD DAMNED BET
I WILL
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Button/Pin/Patch
Smoke the dummy (that's Bob the Dummy to you) with Terry to commemorate our reissue of his 1980 album. Enhance any lapel with irreverent style and grace. This exquisite artifact measures 1.5" in diameter, with a durable steel pin-back. The text on the rim reads: TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND / SMOKIN THE DUMMY.
In a typewritten 1981 letter to his friend and mentor H.C. Westermann (reproduced in the reissue liner notes), Terry writes:
MY KID BUKKA GOT A CHARLIE MCCARTHY DOLL FOR CHRISTMAS ONE YEAR WHEN HE MADE UP HIS MIND HE WAS GOING TO BE A VENTRILOQUIST. HE IMMEDIATELY PAINTED IT UP TO LOOK LIKE A VAMPIRE ... AND I JUST AS IMMEDIATELY PUT ON A PAIR OF JO HARVEY'S SUNGLASSES AND THE SLEAZIEST JACKET I COULD FIND (western slime) AND SAT FOR FAMILY PHOTOS ... ANYWAY, I BLEW RINGS OF SMOKE ON THE DUMMY AND BUKKA SAID I WAS SMOKIN THE DUMMY.
I GUESS IT RANG SOME KIND OF DEMENTED BELL …
The fabulous and brilliant Jo Harvey Allen took the photo, which appears as part of the album cover triptych.
Perceptive fashionistas will recognize this as the third installment in our grand tradition of apparel featuring hirsute smoking men.
We print these shirts in small, limited batches, so reserve yours today.
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, fine jersey short-sleeved t-shirts (Los Angeles Apparel or BELLA+CANVAS) are screenprinted by hand by the eco-friendly Philadelphia outfit Print Natural, in a limited edition. Perceptive fashionistas will recognize this as the second installment in our grand tradition of apparel featuring hirsute smoking men.
WELL I DROVE DOWN TO EL PASO
ON MY BUSINESS
YEAH I WAS JUST ANOTHER EXECUTIVE
WORKIN FOR THE BANK
BUT WHEN I CROSSED THAT BORDER LINE
I DROPPED MY BUSINESS
AND I WOUND UP FOR THREE DAYS
IN THE JUAREZ TANK
chorus: CANTINA CARLOTTA, LADY
AFTER I MET YOU
WELL I KNEW THAT I WAS READY
TO START SOMETHING NEW
SO I DROPPED MY BROOK BROTHERS SUITS
AND ALL MY FANCY PAINTED TIES AHHHH
JUST FOR ONE NIGHT WITH CARLOTTA
AND HER PAINTED EYEEE … YI … YI’S
AND WHEN I GOT OUT OF JAIL
I WENT LOOKIN FOR CARLOTTA
YEAH I NEEDED SOME MORE OF THAT SWEET
AFFECTIONADA
BUT AT THE CANTINA THEY TOLD ME
SHE’S GONE TO GUADALAJARA
AND WHEN I ASKED IF SHE’D BE BACK
THEY JUST SAID … D’NADA
chorus
YEAH ONE NIGHT WITH CARLOTTA
AHHH UNO NOCHES CARLOTTA
AND HER PAINTED EYEEE … YI … YI’S … EEEEEEEEE
yi yi yi yi yi
yi yi yi yi yi, etc.
credits
from Bloodlines,
released May 6, 2022
Terry Allen: piano, maracas, vocals, yi yi yi's
Lloyd Maines: guitar, harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
Cary Banks: guitar, harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
Richard Bowden: fiddle, mandolin, Carlotta introduction, harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
Kenny Maines: bass, harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
R.C. Vega: accordion
Tommie Anderson: trumpet
Donna Jo Barnes: harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
Bonnie Wilkerson: harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
Latronda Maines: harmony vocals, yi yi yi's
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 to Bruce Nauman, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen...more
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