Lubbock (On Everything)


Lubbock is a 1979 double album by Texas singer, songwriter and piano player Terry Allen, released on Fate Records. It was reissued on compact disc in 1995 by Sugar Hill Records. and reissued again on CD and LP in October 2016 by Paradise of Bachelors. The 2016 LP reissue comes with a high quality 28 page LP booklet.
It was recorded in 1978 at Caldwell Studios in Lubbock, Texas, and was engineered and mastered by Don Caldwell and Lloyd Maines, who also played pedal steel and other instruments on the record. "Amarillo Highway" was later covered by Robert Earl Keen, and "Truckload Of Art" by Cracker. Little Feat released a version of "New Delhi Freight Train" on their 1977 album, Time Loves a Hero – two years before Terry Allen recorded it for the Lubbock album. Don Caldwell died in 2024, with Terry Allen notating at Caldwell's memorial service that "The Only Mountain In Lubbock, TX" was Caldwell Studios, due to the flagship sound quality and engineering style.

Track listing

All songs written by Terry Allen
  1. "Amarillo Highway "
  2. "Highplains Jamboree"
  3. "The Great Joe Bob "
  4. "The Wolfman of Del Rio"
  5. "Lubbock Woman"
  6. "The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma"
  7. "Truckload of Art"
  8. "The Collector "
  9. "Oui "
  10. "Rendevouz USA"
  11. "Cocktails for Three"
  12. "The Beautiful Waitress"
  13. "High Horse Momma"
  14. "Blue Asian Reds "
  15. "New Delhi Freight Train"
  16. "FFA"
  17. "Flatland Farmer"
  18. "My Amigo"
  19. "The Pink and Black Song"
  20. "The Thirty Years Waltz "
  21. "I Just Left Myself"

Personnel