BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS
BLOOD SUCKING MANIACS - CD

PARADISE OF BACHELORS

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UPC: 840526502271
Label: PARADISE OF BACHELORS
Format: CD
Release Date: April 24, 2026
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Blood Sucking Maniacs, the Allen family band, helmed by patriarch and matriarch Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen, spans five generations and 121 years, including (among others) their sons Bukka and Bale Allen; grandsons Kru, Sled, and Calder Allen; Panhandle Mystery Band mainstays Charlie Sexton, Lloyd Maines, and Richard Bowden, and frequent collaborator Will Sexton. The wild and wide-ranging songs collected on their eponymous album are miscellaneous and multiplex, comprising heartrending ballads and arch in-jokes on a spectrum from sublime to unabashedly sentimental. The unifying principle here is not so much blood harmony as blood entropy. Get sucked.(Deluxe gatefold double-LP edition includes insert booklet with lyrics and an essay by Terry's biographer Brendan Greaves. Deluxe gatefold single-CD edition features replica LP artwork and insert.)"The Allen family's life has been as much an inspiration for me as Terry's wonderful art and music." - David Byrne"Terry Allen is my hero." - Kurt Vile

TRACK LIST:

1. Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) / Barrelhouse (Pauline Allen) Lucky Marlo Allen, Sophie Allen, Pauline Allen

2. Blood Sucking Maniacs

3. Bloodlines

4. Peaches and Sap Jo Harvey Allen

5. A Pogo Is a Logo Bale Allen

6. Dirt Road Sled Allen

7. Down to the River Jo Harvey Allen

8. Kru Jam Kru Allen

9. Just Pray Calder Allen

10. Let It All in

11. Little Baby Boy Bale Allen

12. Mahalabalapurem-Poppa-Oo-Maumau

13. Blues (Pauline Allen) Pauline Allen

14. No Rush to Fly Calder Allen

15. Red Leg Boy

16. Santa Fe Sled Allen

17. Arroyo Nights Calder Allen

18. These Four Rocks / Shuck Some Corn (Jo Harvey Allen) Jo Harvey Allen, Bukka Allen

19. When Things Go Wrong Jo Harvey Allen

20. Kru Jam 2 Kru Allen

21. Where We Belong Bukka Allen

22. Family Tree / Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) Sophie Allen, Lucky Marlo Allen