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Burning Near the Highway
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Burning near the highway. Page dedicated to a truckload of art from Terry Allen. Today's rainbow is tomorrow's tamale. Curated by @vanwinkle.bsky.social of @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @npcountrycovers.bsky.social.
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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 2d
Count the Dust...the trailer.
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 5d
Terry Allen, HOLDING, 1996
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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 6d
3 Terry Allen quotes currently driving/inciting my WIP:
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 9d
L-Terry Allen's story of what inspired VISIONS BEHIND GLASS (BILLINGSGATE), courtesy of @laweekly01.bsky.social.

R-Terry Allen, VISIONS BEHIND GLASS (BILLINGSGATE), 1983
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 13d
Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen incited anthology of fiction, cnf, verse and sketches, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, round about November.
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 13d
And they met out on the highway
At the Paradise Motel lounge...

-"High Plains Jamboree," Terry Allen (1979)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQ8...

Below: The Paradise (1976 installation created for The Great American Rodeo Show, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 15d
He just grinned and said "My friend,
I know you might think it's odd
But you got nothin to fear about drinkin a beer
If you share it with the son of God"

The Flatlanders do Terry Allen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2Z...
The Flatlanders - "Gimmie A Ride To Heaven" [Live from Austin, TX]
YouTube video by Live From Austin TX
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 22d
"I told her she was drawing sausages, not horses
She said, 'No, they were horses'"
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Harris @ohkiv.bsky.social · 22d
The horse part is discussed here.
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 23d
"She comes in and takes his hand. It’s time. Her fingers move lightly over his big knuckles like she is playing the piano..."

Left: Terry Allen, HITTER, 1996

Right: ending of Terry Allen's radio play DUGOUT (the story of an old ballplayer's marriage to a barrelhouse piano player)
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 23d
"She comes in and takes his hand. It’s time. Her fingers move lightly over his big knuckles like she is playing the piano..."

Left: Terry Allen, HITTER, 1996

Right: ending of Terry Allen's radio play DUGOUT (the story of an old ballplayer's marriage to a barrelhouse piano player)
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 27d
Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art

Part 4

POSITIONS ON THE DESERT: Z, A, J and R (1990)
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 28d
Look for Cowboy Jamboree's Terry Allen inspired, incited and ignited anthology of good grit, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE, this fall...
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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 28d
Ah but see how the lightning
Makes cracks in your air
Tearing the clouds
Then closin the tear
Yeah but you're not surprised anymore
You're going home
To Paradise

Can't find anyone covering this, so Terry Allen does Terry Allen's "Cortez Sail" (the song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZR...
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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · 28d
Ah but see how the lightning
Makes cracks in your air
Tearing the clouds
Then closin the tear
Yeah but you're not surprised anymore
You're going home
To Paradise

Can't find anyone covering this, so Terry Allen does Terry Allen's "Cortez Sail" (the song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ZR...
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 28d
Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art

Part 3

Left: THE CORTEZ SAIL, mixed media on Strathmore paper and acrylic box frame

Right: Text from the radio play, REUNION (A RETURN TO JUAREZ)
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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 29d
"History exists temporarily, and people take place."

This collection from Paradise of Bachelors of Terry Allen's radio plays made a huge impact on my own writing. Like Sam Shepard-who Allen is a stated fan of-it just showed me new possibilities for story telling.

Anyway, spin #1 today:
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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · Sep 8
"then a bird flew out of his chest
then he remembered his childhood
and the bird dropped dead in midair"

Highly recommend the radio play/theatre piece Terry Allen wrote to accompany the exhibit. Here, his wife Jo Harvey Allen performs the piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNO...
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 8
In GHOST SHIP: RODEZ "Allen pursues a fictional investigation of what may have happened in the mind of French artist, playwright & actor Antonin Artaud during a 17-day journey restrained in the dark hold of the freighter Washington in 1937, & later, in various mental institutions." (From @LALOUVER)
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 8
Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art

Part 2

Below: SEVERAL DISTURBING THINGS IN THE FUTURE (2009) from the GHOST SHIP RODEZ installation
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 8
Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art

Part 2

Below: SEVERAL DISTURBING THINGS IN THE FUTURE (2009) from the GHOST SHIP RODEZ installation
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 7
Terry Allen Really Likes Bird Imagery in His Art

Part 1

from the ANTERABBIT/BLEEDER installation:

FEATHER WISHBONE

1943, A PET BIRD

NITE OWL
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 6
I've been born and I'm gonna die
Blood red wing, you gonna make me fly

-Terry Allen, "Red Bird"
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpsH...)

Below L: Terry Allen, WING, 1970-71
Below R: Terry Allen, RED WING, 2019
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Sep 5
Terry Allen, JUAREZ DEVICE, 1969 – 1975
mixed media on paper and plexiglass
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · Aug 28
Look for Cowboys Jamboree’s anthology I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE with poetry and prose and art incited by Terry Allen’s JUAREZ suite this fall…
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(Not Porn) Country Covers @npcountrycovers.bsky.social · Aug 26
She had a boy
With some guy from Fresno
But oh, where he is now
Well, none of us know...

Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Dave Alvin do Terry Allen.

(Alvin co-wrote the song with Terry & Jo Harvey Allen)

youtube.com/watch?v=spZ5...
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Aug 22
Some say you're dead in Heaven
Others say you're dead in Hell
They don't know what it means
To be stuck in-between
In the RED ANGEL MOTEL

-RED ANGEL MOTEL by Terry Allen (2019; graphite, pastel, gouache, colored pencil, press type, collage)
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · Aug 22
Some say you're dead in Heaven
Others say you're dead in Hell
They don't know what it means
To be stuck in-between
In the RED ANGEL MOTEL

-RED ANGEL MOTEL by Terry Allen (2019; graphite, pastel, gouache, colored pencil, press type, collage)
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