Musician and artist Terry Allen’s semi-infamous song “A Truckload of Art” is a country music satire of New York art snobbery. It’s also, though, a vision of art going up in flames and smoke, gleefully ...

In 2016, days after iconic songwriter Guy Clark died, a posse of his peers converged on Terry Allen’s house in Santa Fe, N.M. Their last names speak to the caliber of their own music: Crowell, Earle, ...

Cultural conflagrations don’t come any less expected than those that mark the life and career of Terry Allen: the orbits of country music and the art scene don’t, after all, tend to travel the same ...

It was the poet William Blake who wrote about seeing “a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower." The idea that something common can reveal a complex world of beauty is also pursued in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a culture maven and arts enthusiast. Mar 17, 2024, 01:24pm EDT Mar 18, 2024, 06:32pm EDT Terry Allen faces the open road, ...