Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band | Pioneer Live
Pioneer Works and Blank Forms present the long-awaited return of Terry Allen. The Texas Renaissance man was joined by his legendary Panhandle Mystery Band—featuring his sons, Bukka and Bale Allen, fiddler and mandolinist Richard Bowden, percussionist Davis McLarty, guitarist Charlie Sexton, and storyteller and vocalist Jo Harvey Allen.
Allen's work blurs the borders between disciplines, traversing the worlds of sculpture, painting, drawing, theater, dance, installation, video, performance, and music. His multiplicity saturates his songcraft, whether in his satires of New York artists and their “snotty surfer” West Coast counterparts or in his down-home conversations with the Texicans populating the Panhandle. When asked about country music, Allen replied, “Which country?” And his 13 albums certainly do away with any notion of the genre as a fixed, conservative locus. ♦