DESCRIPTION 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. CD
Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen) / Barrelhouse (Pauline Allen)
Blood Sucking Maniacs
Blood Sucking Maniacs
Bloodlines
Peaches and Sap
A Pogo Is a Logo
Dirt Road
Down to the River
Kru Jam
Just Pray
Let It All In
Little Baby Boy
Mahalabalapurem-poppa-oo-maumau
Blues (Pauline Allen)
No Rush to Fly
Red Leg Boy
Santa Fe
Arroyo Nights
These Four Rocks / Shuck Some Corn (Jo Harvey Allen)
When Things Go Wrong
Kru Jam 2
Where We Belong Family Tree / Heartbeat (Lucky Marlo Allen)

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