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

Iconic and iconoclastic 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.

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 etching artwork by Allen.

The gatefold CD edition includes a six-panel lyrics insert with different artwork by Allen.

Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualists
2. Abandonitis
3. Death of the Last Stripper
4. All That's Left Is Fare-Thee-Well

Side B:
1. Pirate Jenny
2. American Childhood I: Civil Defense
3. American Childhood II: Bad Kiss
4. American Childhood III: Little Puppet Thing

Side C:
1. All These Blues Go Walkin' By
2. City of the Vampires
3. Harmony Two
4. Sailin' On Through

Side D:
Etching by Allen

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
LPx2

$32.99

Black Vinyl

Released 01/24/2020Catalog Number

POB055lp

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

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Released 01/24/2020Catalog Number

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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
LPx2

$32.99

Black Vinyl

Released 01/24/2020Catalog Number

POB055lp

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

$14.99

Released 01/24/2020Catalog Number

POB055cd

Learn more

Iconic and iconoclastic 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.

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 etching artwork by Allen.

The gatefold CD edition includes a six-panel lyrics insert with different artwork by Allen.

Tracklist:
Side A:
1. Houdini Didn't Like the Spiritualists
2. Abandonitis
3. Death of the Last Stripper
4. All That's Left Is Fare-Thee-Well

Side B:
1. Pirate Jenny
2. American Childhood I: Civil Defense
3. American Childhood II: Bad Kiss
4. American Childhood III: Little Puppet Thing

Side C:
1. All These Blues Go Walkin' By
2. City of the Vampires
3. Harmony Two
4. Sailin' On Through

Side D:
Etching by Allen