Title: Blood Sucking Maniacs Artist: Blood Sucking Maniacs Label: Paradise Bachelors Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 840526502271 Genre: Country Release Date: 2026-04-24 Number of Discs: 1
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
Tracks: 1.1 Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) / Barrelhouse (Pauline Allen) Lucky Marlo Allen, Sophie Allen, Pauline Allen 1.2 Blood Sucking Maniacs 1.3 Bloodlines 1.4 Peaches and Sap Jo Harvey Allen 1.5 A Pogo Is a Logo Bale Allen 1.6 Dirt Road Sled Allen 1.7 Down to the River Jo Harvey Allen 1.8 Kru Jam Kru Allen 1.9 Just Pray Calder Allen 1.10 Let It All in 1.11 Little Baby Boy Bale Allen 1.12 Mahalabalapurem-Poppa-Oo-Maumau 1.13 Blues (Pauline Allen) Pauline Allen 1.14 No Rush to Fly Calder Allen 1.15 Red Leg Boy 1.16 Santa Fe Sled Allen 1.17 Arroyo Nights Calder Allen 1.18 These Four Rocks / Shuck Some Corn (Jo Harvey Allen) Jo Harvey Allen, Bukka Allen 1.19 When Things Go Wrong Jo Harvey Allen 1.20 Kru Jam 2 Kru Allen 1.21 Where We Belong Bukka Allen 1.22 Family Tree / Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) Sophie Allen, Lucky Marlo Allen
