Amerasia (album)

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Amerasia
Terry Allen Amerasia.jpg
Studio album by
Released1987
StudioCaldwell Studios, 722 Studios
Genre Country
Label Fate, Sugar Hill
Producer Terry Allen, Lloyd Maines
Terry Allen chronology
Bloodlines
(1983)
Amerasia
(1987)
Pedal Steal
(1988)

Amerasia is an album by artist Terry Allen, recorded with Caravan, released in 1987 by Fate Records and reissued by Sugar Hill Records. [1] It is the soundtrack to the 1985 film Amerasia by Wolf-Eckart Buhler. The album's liner notes were written by David Byrne.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Terry Allen

  1. "Amerasia"
  2. "My Country 'Tis of Thee"
  3. "The Burden"
  4. "Back Out of the World"
  5. "Swanlake"***
  6. "Display Woman/Displaced Man"
  7. "Lucy's Tiger Den"
  8. "Nobody's Goin' Home (Friendship Highway)"
  9. "Metrapab"***
  10. "Church Walking"
  11. "Food Stall'
  12. "Cana"
  13. "Sawahdi (Christmas Song)"
  14. "Orphans"***
  15. "Pataya"***
  16. "Let Freedom Ring"***

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References

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