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Wichita, United States (May 7, 1943 – present)

Terry Allen (May 7, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas) is a country music singer in the outlaw country genre, painter, and conceptual artist from Lubbock, Texas, and living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His father was Fletcher (“Sled”) Allen (b. August 23, 1886 in West Plains, Missouri – October 16, 1959 in Lubbock, Texas) a catcher in 1910 for the St. Louis Browns who continued his career as a player-manager in the Texas League.

He attended Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas. His contemporaries at Monterey High School included Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, Jo Harvey Allen and Jo Carol Pierce. Trained as an architect, he received a B.F.A. from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His art has been supported by three NEA grants and a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. His work Trees (the music, literary and third trees) is installed on the campus of the University of California San Diego as part of the Stuart Collection. His artwork has been featured at the L.A. Louver art gallery in Venice, California.

Terry Allen is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA. His works are represented in the collections of many international museums including the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Nelson/Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, l’Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain
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  • shonky1

    Every song is a movie. Toooooooo good :)

    November 2010
  • strajnic

    Lubbock (On Everything) is a classic!

    July 2010
  • HuskerMe

    I've rarely encountered an artist this underrated.

    December 2009
  • harajukudude

    a group for people who love to discover great bands that none of your friends know about ! http://www.last.fm/group/Esoteric+Freaks

    February 2009
  • azfad

    'lubbock on everything' is a gem

    April 2008
  • bazzata

    I have a cover of Terry's what about Alicia and other Terry songs on several of my albums - Bazza crawford4951@comcast.net www.last.fm/music/bazza

    November 2006
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