• LP-PoB-055

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  + The deluxe tip-on gatefold 2×LP package features lyrics, color labels, high-res Bandcamp download code, three sides of music, and a fourth-side vinyl Moby Dick etching artwork by Allen.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Just Like Moby Dick via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

  Download available in 24-bit/88.2kHz.
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• CD-PoB-055

  Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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  + The gatefold CD edition includes a six-panel lyrics insert with different Moby Dick artwork by Allen.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Just Like Moby Dick via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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• LP+CD-PoB-055

  Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

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  + Get both physical formats for one low price.
  + The deluxe tip-on gatefold 2×LP package features lyrics, color labels, high-res Bandcamp download code, three sides of music, and a fourth-side vinyl Moby Dick etching artwork by Allen.
  + The gatefold CD edition includes a six-panel lyrics insert with different Moby Dick artwork by Allen.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Just Like Moby Dick via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

  Download available in 24-bit/88.2kHz.
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• Digital Track

  Streaming + Download

  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  Download available in 24-bit/88.2kHz.

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• Buy the Full Digital Album

• Terry Allen T-shirt: "Just Like Moby Dick"

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  Just Like Moby Dick.
  
  Our second Terry Allen t-shirt, the cetacean sequel to "Today's Rainbow Is Tomorrow's Tamale," features—for the first time ever, as far as anyone remembers—an original drawing by Terry himself, of a sperm whale triumvirate, scarred and freshly harpooned "Just Like Moby Dick," to commemorate the masterly 2020 Panhandle Mystery Band album of the same title.
  
  Screenprinted by hand, in two oceanic blues, by our eco-friendly focused friends at Print Natural in Philadelphia, these 100% cotton, pre-shrunk, fine jersey short-sleeved t-shirts (BELLA+CANVAS) are available in Vintage White—slightly off-white, the true Mellvillian Whiteness of the Whale hue—sizes XS through XL, in a very limited edition.
  
  Wear while listening to the Panhandle Mystery Band, partying in any port of call with Queequeg and Tashtego, and keep sailin' on through.
  
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• Terry Allen T-shirt: "Today's Rainbow is Tomorrow's Tamale."

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  N.B. THESE SHIRTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLY VIA OUR WEBSITE: paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pobmerch-004/
  
  We print these shirts in small, limited batches, so reserve yours today.
  
  Today's rainbow is tomorrow's tamale.
  
  Is there any more potent and perfect koan? Not for our money here at PoB. In celebration of our deluxe, definitive reissues of Terry Allen's "Juarez" (1975, PoB-26) and "Lubbock (on everything)" (1979, PoB-27), we are proud to present the Terry Allen Tamale T-shirt—as far as we know, the first such item to exist in the wold, and long overdue—featuring the immortal line from Juarez and the cover of that abiding masterpiece of music and visual art on the front, with the PoB logo tastefully deployed on the back.
  
  Available in White or Slate, sizes XS through XL, these 100% cotton, fine jersey short-sleeved t-shirts (Los Angeles Apparel or BELLA+CANVAS) are screenprinted by hand by the eco-friendly Philadelphia outfit Print Natural, in a limited edition. Perceptive fashionistas will recognize this as the second installment in our grand tradition of apparel featuring hirsute smoking men.
  
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• Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: Smokin the Dummy Shirt

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  “Pink and Black is comin’ back” … in the glorious form of a SMOKIN-hot Terry Allen shirt, the newest addition to our collection of Terry couture and our fourth smoke-themed apparel design. Light it up!
  
  Designed by Terry himself with Noel Waggener, the shirts, featuring Bob the Dummy, commemorate our reissue of Smokin the Dummy (PoB-065) as well as the occasion of Panhandle Mystery Band’s annual performance at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on January 28, 2023.
  
  Available in both breezy short-sleeved and cozy long-sleeved styles, in sizes XS through 2XL, these 100% cotton BELLA+CANVAS shirts are screen-printed by hand by eco-friendly Philadelphia shop Print Natural, in, appropriately, the color Natural, for a subtle but accurate nicotine-stain tint.
  
  Quantities, as always, are limited, so get your SMOKIN shirt today. Don’t be a dummy.
  
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• Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: "Smokin the Dummy" Button

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  Smoke the dummy (that's Bob the Dummy to you) with Terry to commemorate our reissue of his 1980 album. Enhance any lapel with irreverent style and grace. This exquisite artifact measures 1.5" in diameter, with a durable steel pin-back. The text on the rim reads: TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND / SMOKIN THE DUMMY.
  
  In a typewritten 1981 letter to his friend and mentor H.C. Westermann (reproduced in the reissue liner notes), Terry writes:
  
  MY KID BUKKA GOT A CHARLIE MCCARTHY DOLL FOR CHRISTMAS ONE YEAR WHEN HE MADE UP HIS MIND HE WAS GOING TO BE A VENTRILOQUIST. HE IMMEDIATELY PAINTED IT UP TO LOOK LIKE A VAMPIRE ... AND I JUST AS IMMEDIATELY PUT ON A PAIR OF JO HARVEY'S SUNGLASSES AND THE SLEAZIEST JACKET I COULD FIND (western slime) AND SAT FOR FAMILY PHOTOS ... ANYWAY, I BLEW RINGS OF SMOKE ON THE DUMMY AND BUKKA SAID I WAS SMOKIN THE DUMMY.
  
  I GUESS IT RANG SOME KIND OF DEMENTED BELL …
  
  The fabulous and brilliant Jo Harvey Allen took the photo, which appears as part of the album cover triptych.
  
  Perceptive fashionistas will recognize this as the third installment in our grand tradition of apparel featuring hirsute smoking men.
  
  Western slime! ... more
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• Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band: "There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California" Bumper Sticker

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  Put some illegal vibrations on that bumper, and show the open road how you truly feel about SoCal. A ferocious full-band reprise of "There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California," originally released on Terry Allen's immortal 1975 debut album Juarez, appears on 1983's Bloodlines—you can buy our deluxe reissues of both records here.
  
  Printed on thick, durable vinyl this 3" x 11.5" bumper sticker is resistant to scratches, sun, and water. (It's probably not resistant to switchblades, however; the fabulous Jo Harvey Allen brought the one pictured back from Tijuana; you can also find it on the back cover of Bloodlines.)
  
  The song itself recounts a larcenous and murderous episode of Allen's multidisciplinary JUAREZ body of work, starring its antiheros, the Juarez-born pachuco Jabo and the bruja Chic Blundie. Don't get it twisted.
  
  THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW AGAINST SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  
  chorus: WELL I’M GOIN BACK
  GOIN HOME AGAIN
  YEAH I’M GOIN BACK
  TO... MY OWN AGAIN
  YEAH I’M GOIN BACK
  AHHH TO MY HOME TOWN
  THE ONE THAT PUT ME OUT
  THE ONE THAT LAID ME DOWN
  
  WELL I WIRED UP A CAR IN EAST FONTANA
  I WAS A’HEADED FOR SAN BERDU
  AHHH MY MIDNIGHT OIL
  IT WAS ON THE BOIL
  AN BOY I WAS A’BARREL’N THROUGH
  THEN I TOOK A TURN
  BUT I HIT THE CURB
  AN SPUN OFF THE CENTER LANE
  AN WHEN I HEARD THE CRASH
  WELL I STOMPED THE GAS
  AND I WAS BARREL’N THROUGH AGAIN
  
  I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
  BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
  YEAH
  I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
  BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
  
  AN I REMEMBER THE COP
  WITH HIS SLICKED-BACK HAIR
  WHEN HE TOLD ME
  TO GET OUT A’HERE
  AN I REMEMBER THE JUDGE
  WITH HIS GOLD PLATED MOUTH
  HE SAID “GO LIVE IN THE NORTH
  YOU GOTTA DIE DOWN SOUTH”
  
  YOU GONNA DIE DOWN SOUTH
  
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  I WENT FLYIN THROUGH SOUTH SAN BERDU
  WITH MY MIND ON EAST L.A.
  WHERE MY PACHUCO QUEEN
  SHE’S COOKIN RE-FRIED BEANS
  AN SHE’S WAITIN FOR ME TODAY
  YEAH STOPPED ON OFF AT THE LIQUOR STORE
  MADE EVERY BODY LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR
  TOOK ALL THEIR WHISKEY
  TOOK ALL THEIR BREAD
  THEN SHOT OUT THEIR LIGHTS
  JUST BEFORE I FLED
  
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  I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
  BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
  YEAH
  I LEAVE A FEW PEOPLE DEAD
  BUT I GOT OPEN ROAD AHEAD
  
  AN I REMEMBER THE BITCH
  WHOSE BLACK TONGUE LIED
  WHEN SHE TOLD ME
  SHE’S DIS-SATISFIED
  AN I REMEMBER HER DADDY
  BIG AS A TRUCK
  HE SAID “FUCK WITH ME BOY
  IF YOU WANT TO FUCK”
  
  YEAH, FUCK WITH ME BOY
  IF YOU WANT TO FUCK
  
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  SO THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
  AGAINST SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  YEAH THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
  AGAINST PUTTIN THE DEVIL
  BEHIND THE WHEEL …
  CAUSE AS LONG AS YOU PEOPLE ARE GONNA SANCTION SUCH AN EVIL
  WELL I’M GONNA TURN YOUR ASPHALT
  BACK INTO BRIMSTONE
  YEAH YOU GOD DAMNED BET
  I WILL ... more   more
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• Full Digital Discography

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  releases

  Get all 8 Terry Allen releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Cowboy and the Stranger, Gonna California, Bloodlines, Smokin the Dummy, Just Like Moby Dick, Pedal Steal + Four Corners, Lubbock (on everything), and Juarez.

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