CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

TERRY ALLEN & THE PANHANDLE MYSTERY BAND: “Smokin The Dummy” (Fate):: Juarez, this sculptor-painter cum singer/ songwriter’s 1975 debut, was pretentiously half-assed mock mythopoeia; Lubbock (On Everything), his 1979 double was genuwine laugh-a-minute highbrow-lowbrow.