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TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND - Smokin' the Dummy / Bloodlines (1996)

Long before there were the '90s genre descriptions of "alt.country" or "y'allternative," there was Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band. A 1997 reissue of two mid-'80s albums on Allen's own Fate label, SMOKIN' THE DUMMY/BLOODLINES is a twisted melange of folk, jazz, country, pop, Tex-Mex polkas, and Allen's own trademark skewed lyrical viewpoint, best exemplified in the Chuck Berry-inspired "Whatever Happened to Jesus and Maybellene?" and the cheerfully heretical "Gimme a Ride to Heaven, Boy!" On the later, a driver picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be Jesus, who promptly pistol-whips and carjacks the poor guy, leaving him with the hilarious and strangely chilling line "The Lord moves in mysterious ways and tonight, my son, he's gonna use your car." The Panhandle Mystery Band, featuring Allen's longtime compatriots Lloyd Maines and Don Caldwell, whip up a sound that's somewhere between Little Feat and Brave Combo. These albums are essential art-country. - cdunoverse.com

Smokin' the Dummy and Bloodlines are two albums released by Terry Allen in 1980 and 1983, respectively. The albums have been recently reissued 1996 on a single compact disc on Sugar Hill Records.

TRACKS: 01. The Heart of California 02. Whatever Happened to Jesus (and Maybellene) 03. Helena Montana 04. Texas Tears 05. Feellin Easy 06. The Night Cafe 07. Roll Truck Roll 08. Red Bird 09. The Lubbuck Tornado (I Don't Know) 10. Bloodlines 11. Gimme a Ride to Heaven Boy 12. Cantina Carlotta 13. Ourland 14. Oh Hally Lou 15. Oh What a Dangerous Life 16. Manhattan Bluebird 17. There Oughta be a Law Against Sunny Southern California 18. Bloodlines (II)