Well said, Don.
I have been spinning Salivation straight for three days and I am amazed at
the gutsy-ness of this disc. I mean the guy closes the opening track, a
bluesy groove/romp, with a minute and a half of Donald Duck talking to the
sky. That's guts. Serious guts.
-jim
np - Terry Allen -- 'No Top40 Song'
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Don Yates wrote:
>
> And here's an interesting contrast to the overly polite and artsy "roots
> rock" types: Terry Allen's an arty Texas singer-songwriter who also just
> happens to be thoroughly immersed in various roots styles. He does more
> than just name-check roots music greats in his publicity sheets (a la
> Bruton) -- his music is identifiably based in country, cajun, tex-mex,
> etc. There's also an edginess to his sound that's noticeably absent from
> that of the polite snooze-rock guys. His new album's definitely gonna
> make some folks uneasy, and others even downright mad. Titled Salivation,
> the album takes dead-aim at religion, skewering its hypocrisies with irony
> and irreverence while also demonstrating that Allen's lost none of his
> ability to tell a powerful tale. Terry Allen doesn't make background
> music, and thank god for that.--don
>
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