Terry Allen's "Gonna California" and "Cowboy and the Stranger" EPs are out March 15, 2024 on Paradise of Bachelors. Buy from artist/label (LP/CD/digital): paradiseofbachelors.com/terry-allen Buy/stream elsewhere: lnk.to/PoB75 lnk.to/PoB54 Buy the book: bit.ly/TruckloadofArt In conjunction with the publication, by Hachette Books, of Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, an authorized biography by Brendan Greaves of Paradise of Bachelors, Gonna California imagines an alternate reality where Allen’s long-lost first studio recordings, captured with a full band in LA in 1968, saw a proper release. (Instead nearly the entire pressing was destroyed by a fire set by the so-called “Hollywood Arsonist,” and remaining copies were repurposed in artworks.) This first-ever (re)issue edition, limited to 500 copies, features recently rediscovered and remastered early (and superior) mixes of both songs; the original liner notes by Allen; an excerpt from the book; a lyrics insert; and Allen’s contemporaneous visual art in an arresting gatefold jacket. Comprising the first recording, in 2018, of a song written in 1969 and three solo demo recordings dating to 1968—all previously unissued—Cowboy and the Stranger is a co-release of L.A. Louver and Paradise of Bachelors, on the occasion of Terry Allen’s 2019 retrospective drawing exhibition The Exact Moment It Happens in the West (Stories, Pictures, and Songs from the ’60s ’Til Now) at L.A. Louver. Originally limited to an edition of 500 cassettes, it is now available digitally for the first time, released in conjunction with the 2024 publication, by Hachette Books, of Brendan Greaves’s biography of Allen, Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen.