For six decades, recording artist, songwriter, and visual artist Terry Allen has been sharing his various forms of conceptual art. This program, recorded on July 20, 2024, and hosted by the Museum’s RJ Smith, digs into Allen’s career and discusses and showcases multiple works.

Allen and musician, actor, and poet Jo Harvey Allen—who is also Terry’s wife—begin the program with a monologue and music from Allen’s gallery installation “Terry Allen: MemWars.” They perform Allen’s songs “Amarillo Highway (For Dave Hickey),” “Beautiful Waitress,” “Hold on to the House,” and “Wolfman of Del Rio.” The program continues with Brendan Greaves, a Grammy-nominated writer and label founder, reading an excerpt from “Truckload of Art,” his biography of Allen. Then, the Allens and Greaves sit down for a conversation with Smith.

Terry Allen is a songwriter, recording artist, and visual artist who has been called an Outlaw country lifer and an architect of alt-country. His songs have been covered by Bobby Bare, Guy Clark, Doug Sahm, Sturgill Simpson, and Lucinda Williams, and he has released more than a dozen albums since his 1975 debut, “Juarez.” Allen’s artwork is in the collections of several major museums, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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