Album artwork for Just Like Moby Dick by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band

Iconic and iconoc lastic Texan songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, his first set of new songs since 2013’s Bottom of the World, features the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton (Dylan, Bowie, Blaze), Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines; and co-writes with Joe Ely and Dave Alvin. The connections to Melville’s masterpiece are metaphorical and allusive, as elusive as the White Whale. The masterly spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything), Just Like Moby Dick casts its net wide for wild stories, depicting, among other monstrous things, Houdini in existential crisis, the death of the last stripper in town, bloodthirsty pirates (in a pseudo-sequel to Brecht and Weill’s Pirate Jenny), the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the American Childhood suite), a vampire-infested circus, mudslides and burning mobile homes, and all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells.

Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band

Just Like Moby Dick

Paradise of Bachelors
Album artwork for Just Like Moby Dick by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band
CD

£12.99

Gatefold CD edition includes a lyric insert with different Moby Dick artwork by Allen.

Released 24/01/2020Catalogue Number

POB055CD

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Album artwork for Just Like Moby Dick by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band
LPx2

£27.99

Double Vinyl with Etched D-Side housed in Deluxe Tip On Gatefold Sleeve.

Black
Includes download code
Released 24/01/2020Catalogue Number

POB055LP

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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band

Just Like Moby Dick

Paradise of Bachelors
Album artwork for Just Like Moby Dick by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band
CD

£12.99

Gatefold CD edition includes a lyric insert with different Moby Dick artwork by Allen.

Released 24/01/2020Catalogue Number

POB055CD

Learn more
Album artwork for Just Like Moby Dick by Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band
LPx2

£27.99

Double Vinyl with Etched D-Side housed in Deluxe Tip On Gatefold Sleeve.

Black
Includes download code
Released 24/01/2020Catalogue Number

POB055LP

Learn more

Iconic and iconoc lastic Texan songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen’s heartbreaking, hilarious new album, his first set of new songs since 2013’s Bottom of the World, features the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton (Dylan, Bowie, Blaze), Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines; and co-writes with Joe Ely and Dave Alvin. The connections to Melville’s masterpiece are metaphorical and allusive, as elusive as the White Whale. The masterly spiritual successor to Lubbock (on everything), Just Like Moby Dick casts its net wide for wild stories, depicting, among other monstrous things, Houdini in existential crisis, the death of the last stripper in town, bloodthirsty pirates (in a pseudo-sequel to Brecht and Weill’s Pirate Jenny), the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (in the American Childhood suite), a vampire-infested circus, mudslides and burning mobile homes, and all manner of tragicomic disasters, abandonments, betrayals, bad memories, failures, and fare-thee-wells.