Terry Allen

Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen Publication Day.

Today is the day—Truckload of Art publication day and, aptly, also the first day of spring. You can find the hardcover—which is stunning, with both b&w and color image inserts—as well as the ebook and audiobook (author Brendan Greaves reads four chapters, with Jason Culp adeptly handling the rest) at your favorite booksellers. Join Brendan and friends—including the Allens in Austin—at upcoming book events. 

Boogie: Six New Terry Allen Songs + Truckload of Art Book Tour Events.

Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, the authorized (and the first-ever) biography of the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic musician by Brendan Greaves of Paradise of Bachelors, is out via Hachette Books in just four days, on March 19. On the occasion of its imminent publication, we have released two archival Terry Allen EPs of rare and unheard early recordings. Both Gonna California and Cowboy and the Stranger are now streaming worldwide. Read on to listen, to purchase the book or one of the few remaining copies of the special limited-edition 7″, to read some recent press, and to RSVP for free book tour events in NC, DC, PA, NY, and TX, including a special Austin library concert.

Roxy Gordon’s Crazy Horse Never Died Is Alive

“Everything exists and everything will happen and everything is alive and everything is planned and everything is a mystery, and everything is dangerous, and everything is a mirage, and everything touches everything, and everything is everything, and everything is very, very strange.”

— Roxy Gordon, text inscribed on a painting (1988) 

Everything is very, very strange. All you have to do is listen. 

Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy): Crazy Horse Never Died

Arrestingly singular and deeply moving, this 1988 album by Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy) (1945–2000)—whose long out-of-print work has been acclaimed by friends such as Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, and Terry Allen—sets his cold-blooded, bone-lean reflections on the complexities and contradictions of American Indian (and American) history and identity to atmospheric, synth-damaged country-rock that skirts ambient textures and postpunk deconstructions.

Krampus Day Sale 2022

Y’all, it’s been a while—we missed you. The end of 2022 has been a wild ride, and herein is its final Paradisiacal dispatch. ‘Tis the season to give records to beloved friends and family (and to yourself too). In lieu of the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we prefer to observe Krampus Day (honoring the Central European folkloric anti-Santa critter).