Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band - Bloodlines CD xx1970 Don was extending a warmhearted

Don was extending a warmhearted invitation for them to come along for the ride

Amateurs is an album about anti-art and anti-intellectual culture in Australia (that also applies to other parts of the world)

something about jazz that pre-dates the Free/Spiritual years has never clicked with me

Mirrored Aztec is the latest stop on this runaway train

Or as Brooklyn Vegan’s Andrew Sacher said at the time: “While most bands who are thirty years into their career are either fading away or living off of the nostalgia of their older material

Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band - Bloodlines CD xx1970 Don was extending a warmheartedOn his manifold fourth album, acclaimed songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen contemplates kinshipthe ways sex and violence stitch and sever the ties of family, faith, and societywith skewering satire and affection alike. Bloodlines compiles thematically related but disparate recordings from miscellaneous sources both theatrical and historical: two songs written for plays; two full band reprises of selections from Juarez; the irreverent hellfire