ARTIST: Terry Allen
TITLE: Pedal Steal
LABEL: SugarHill Records
GENRE: Country
TIME: 35:45 min
SIZE:  46,5 MB
RIP DATE: Jul-05-2006
RELEASE DATE: Feb-14-2006
WEBSITE: n/a

Track List:

01. Pedal Steal                                35:45

Release Notes:

Yes, it's really only 1 track that runs for 30 plus
minutes...

"Allen takes no prisoners, pulls no punches."
—ROLLING STONE

Pedal Steal is the latest installment in Sugar
Hill’s plan to restore all of maverick renaissance
man Terry Allen’s recordings to print again. It’s
loosely based on an actual steel guitar player who
wandered Texas and New Mexico in the late 60s-early
70s, one of the first to use the instrument for rock
and roll.

Commissioned as a soundtrack for the Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco, Pedal Steal
premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next
Wave Festival October 22, 1985.

The soundtrack and staging of Pedal Steal received
the New York Dance Critics’ acclaimed “Bessie”
award.

From album liners by author Dagoberto Gilb:

In the Pedal Steal … you hear guitar strings being
tightened into tune, slowly, the crickets in your
ear on this dark night outdoors. Boots step toward
you. They get steady closer. Guitar string wind.
Somebody’s quick practicing rock’n’roll drums until
the rhythm changes, a slower, deeper Indian beat.
The highway fizz interrupts. A clavinova chimes wind
and a steel guitar whines and drawls country
syllables but the organ sound goes Mexican, mariachi
trumpets and a McDonald’s commercial interfere. A
Navajo chant is closer than a TV show on in the
background at a motel and the rock drummer is back,
better now, grown, and a young guitar does an acid
rock squeal, bend, warp, and it all shifts Indian,
like drinking tequila, and there is thunder, and sax
reeds, A Sentimental Journey, settle the air: This
is the beginning. …