Terry Allen - Juarez LP [Paradise Of Bachelors]

Legendary Texan artist Terry Allen occupies a unique position straddling the frontiers of country music and visual art; he has worked with everyone from Guy Clark to David Byrne to Lucinda Williams, and his artwork resides in museums worldwide. Widely celebrated as a masterpiece - arguably the greatest concept album of all time - his spare, haunting 1975 debut LP Juarez is a violent, fractured tale of the chthonic American Southwest and borderlands. Produced in collaboration with the artist and remastered from the original analog tapes, this is the definitive edition of the art-country classic: the first reissue on vinyl; the first to feature the originally intended artwork (including the lithographs that accompanied the first edition); and the first to contextualize the album within Allen's fifty-year art practice.Deluxe vinyl package includes expanded tip-on gatefold jacket, printed inner sleeve, download code, and 24pp. book with artwork, lyrics, and essays by Dave Hickey, Dave Alvin, and PoB. CD edition features replica jacket, sleeve, and 48pp. book.A master lyricist. - New York TimesEccentric and uncompromising, savage and beautiful, literate and guttural. - Rolling StoneThe single greatest concept album of all time. - PopMatters Like Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger as reimagined by Tarantino. - AllMusic