''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 Sugar Hill Records.Sugar Hill
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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

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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. Don Caldwell (Engineer/Saxophone) passed away 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 # "Amarillo Highway (for

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)" # "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 * Ponty Bone - accordion *Don Caldwell - saxophone, string arrangements *

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- 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,

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- harmony vocals *Freddy Pride, Mike Austin, Vincent Thomas, Jimmy Sampson - "whooooit" harmony

References

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