Terry Allen / Panhandle Mystery Band - Smokin the DummyRecorded exactly two years after acclaimed visual artist and songwriter Terry Allen's masterpiece Lubbock (on everything), the feral follow up Smokin the Dummy is less conceptually focused but more sonically and stylistically unified than it's predecessor it's also rougher and rowdier, wilder and more wired, and altogether more menacingly rock and roll. The first album by Allen to share top billing with the Panhandle Mystery Band, here featuring Jesse

Don's fanatical desire but inability to father children has driven him to horrifying action

charting subterranean geographies of the heart and soul

the album was an artistic triumph and heralded the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges (THE LADY EVE) takes off like a rocket and never let's up

and Mozart's brilliant music

resistance

yet they're also ready for an even brighter tomorrow

and that gives Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) the weight of a career retrospective

He'll push up to the boundaries of free jazz

'Year of Planning

Their glorious harmonies and melodies bear the catchy mark of THIN LIZZY

this largely unknown & ultra-rare album is not even listed in any record collector encyclopedias