Human Remains (Terry Allen album)

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Human Remains
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Studio album by
Released1996
Genre Country
Label Sugar Hill
Producer Terry Allen, Lloyd Maines
Terry Allen chronology
Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)
(1992)
Human Remains
(1996)
Salivation
(1999)
Professional ratings
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Human Remains is an album by Terry Allen, released in 1996 by Sugar Hill Records. The album featured guest appearances by David Byrne, Joe Ely, Charlie and Will Sexton and Lucinda Williams. [3] [4]

The song "Galleria Dele Armi" is dedicated to the Balvano train disaster. [5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Terry Allen; except where indicated

  1. "Gone to Texas"
  2. "Room to Room"
  3. "Back to Black"
  4. "Wilderness of This World" (David Byrne)
  5. "Little Sandy"
  6. "Buck Naked" (David Byrne)
  7. "What of Alicia"
  8. "That Kind of Girl"
  9. "Galleria Dele Armi" (Will Sexton)
  10. "Crisis Site 13"
  11. "Peggy Legg"
  12. "After the Fall"
  13. "Flatland Boogie"

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References

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  2. "Album Reviews : Allen's 'Remains': Rich Mix of Musical Settings : *** TERRY ALLEN, "Human Remains", Sugar Hill". Los Angeles Times. March 16, 1996.
  3. "Sugar Hill Records". Archived from the original on May 26, 2007.
  4. "Conflicts and Contradictions". austinchronicle.com.
  5. "Galleria dele Armi". torreomnia.it. Retrieved 2019-07-27.