Comprising the first recording, in 2018, of a song written in 1969 and three solo demo recordings dating to 1968—all previously unissued—Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and Paradise of Bachelors, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s 2019 retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver. Originally limited to an edition of 500 cassettes, it is now available digitally for the first time, released in conjunction with the 2024 publication, by Hachette Books, of Brendan Greaves’s biography of Allen, Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen.
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Buy from Bandcamp: https://terryallen.bandcamp.com/album/cowboy-and-the-stranger
A1: "Roses Red Roses" 10.45
B1: "Cowboy and the Stranger" 3.55
B2: "Truckload of Art" 3.27
B3: "Red Bird" 3.23
All recordings are previously unreleased demos and work tapes, 1968/2018, (p) Terry Allen.
All music and lyrics © Terry Allen, Green Shoes Publishing Co., BMI, administered by BMG Chrysalis.
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COWBOY AND THE STRANGER
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA, c. 1968.
The cowboy is lying under blood-cloud sky
The cowboy is dying under blood-loud sky
Cowboy and the Stranger, a “prelude to JUAREZ,” was one of Allen’s early attempts to combine music and image in non-illustrative counterpoint. The show, exhibited at Michael Walls Gallery in San Francisco in 1968, featured framed drawings with tape reels affixed to their backs, as well as ambulatory musical performances in which Allen wheeled a piano to various pieces and performed different songs in conversation with them.
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