“I’ve always been interested in the stuff you don’t see in a person, the other side of something, of an idea or an object or a motion,” Terry Allen told the Chronicle in 2020. That curiosity to plumb into the veiled essence of the world scours the West Texan’s artwork and songwriting – playful, poignant, and transformative. In conjunction with his video exhibition “MemWars,” currently showing at the Blanton, Allen brings his blockbuster Panhandle Mystery Band back to the Paramount for a night of stories behind his indelible songs celebrating outsiders and dreamers and the dust swept Southwest.
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— Doug Freeman
