Terry Allen

Terry Allen: Lubbock (on everything)

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 6, 2016

It was the poet William Blake who wrote about seeing “a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower." The idea that something common can reveal a complex world of beauty is also pursued in singer/songwriter and artist Terry Allen's masterpiece Lubbock (on everything) (1979). It is an album that is specifically local, revolving around Allen's hometown Lubbock, and yet it is universal and transcends time and place. The ...