Juarez

by Terry Allen

Juarez cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Landfall
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:31
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Terry Allen's 'Juarez' is a stark, hauntingly narrative concept album detailing a violent, interwoven story of two couples traversing the American Southwest and Mexico. Armed with only a piano and a fiercely distinct Texas drawl, Allen bridges the narrative depth of outlaw country with the intellectual rigor of the contemporary art world.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, crime, violence, death, folk, storytelling, male-vocals, wild-west

Tracklist

  1. The Juarez Device (aka Texican Badman) (1:22)
  2. Dialogue: The Characters (A Simple Story) (2:08)
  3. Cortez Sail (6:10)
  4. Border Palace (1:48)
  5. Dogwood (4:31)
  6. Writing on Rocks Across the U.S.A. (2:50)
  7. The Radio … and Real Life (4:45)
  8. There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California (Jabo I, II, III) (4:29)
  9. What of Alicia (5:03)
  10. Honeymoon in Cortez (2:36)
  11. Four Corners (4:21)
  12. Dialogue: The Run South (1:25)
  13. Parts: Jabo / Street Walkin Woman (1:40)
  14. Cantina Carlotta (3:14)
  15. La Despedida (The Parting) (5:03)

Credits

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