''Lubbock (On Everything)'' is a 1979

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singer, songwriter and piano player Terry Allen, released on Fate Records. It was reissued on compact disc in 1995 by

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.Sugar Hill
/ref> 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

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, Texas, and was engineered and mastered by Don Caldwell and

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, who also played

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and other instruments on the record. "Amarillo Highway" was later covered by

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, and "Truckload Of Art" by Cracker.

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released a version of "New Delhi Freight Train" on their 1977 album, ''

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'' – two years before Terry Allen recorded it for the ''Lubbock (On Everything)'' album.

Track listing

All songs written by Terry Allen # "Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)" # "Highplains Jamboree" # "The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)" # "The Wolfman Of Del Rio" # "Lubbock Woman" # "The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma" # "Truckload Of Art" # "The Collector (and the Art Mob)" # "Oui (a French Song)" # "Rendevouz USA" # "Cocktails for Three" # "The Beautiful Waitress" # "High Horse Momma" # "Blue Asian Reds (for Roadrunner)" # "New Delhi Freight Train" # "FFA" # "Flatland Farmer" # "My Amigo" # "The Pink And Black Song" # "The Thirty Years Waltz (for Jo Harvey)" # "I Just Left Myself"

Personnel

* Terry Allen - piano, vocals *

- pedal steel, guitars, dobro, mandolin, banjo, bell tree, harmony vocals *Kenny Maines - bass, harmony vocals *Curtis McBride - drums *Allan Shinn - percussion, marimba, jawbone, skin castanets *Richard Bowden - fiddle *

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- accordion *Don Caldwell - saxophone, string arrangements *

Joe Ely Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll. He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo ...

- harmonica *Luis Martinez - jazz guitar (on "Cocktails for Three") *Jesse Taylor - "flatland guitar" (on "Flatland Farmer") *Tommie Anderson - trumpet *Mark Anthony - trombone *Russ Standefer - tuba *Ruth Ann Truncale - violin *Susan Allen - violin *Karen Blalack - cello *Leslie Blackburn - viola * Monterey High School Marching Band - school song *Sylvester "band-aid" Rice, Gwen Hewitt, Suzanne Paulk, Jo Harvey Allen - harmony vocals *Freddy Pride, Mike Austin, Vincent Thomas, Jimmy Sampson - "whooooit" harmony

References

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