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Bukka Allen

Bukka Allen is an accomplished keyboardist and accordion player who has performed and recorded with many musical troubadours including his father Terry Allen, Ian Moore, Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen, Jack Ingram, Ryan Bingham, The Bodeans, Courtyard Hounds and Joe Walsh.

As a singer/songwriter, he has recorded two critically acclaimed solo albums, 1998’s Sweet Valentine, and 2007’s Confidant. Allen is also a major force behind Austin’s premier instrumental group, Screen Door Music and has scored commercials and films.

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Best known as the son of Lubbock mafioso Terry Allen, Bukka Allen has long been an in-demand sideman who's worked with the Bodeans, Joe Ely, and Jack Ingram, while anchoring Austin instrumental trio and label Screen Door Music..

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Arty, airy and ethereal, Bukka Allen’s first solo record since 1999’s Sweet Valentine is a moody, introspective, highly poetic collection of originals. Like his father Terry, Bukka is a master of dark, brooding melody and lyrics that cut to the ethical quick with surgical elegance, such as “Slip through the hands of an angel/Land on your back upside down” from “Behold What You Found”.

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There's a cinematic quality to the songs on Bukka Allen's "Confidante." Many of the songs are full of whens and wheres.

Allen, 40, says he's "drawn to the idea of trying to create snapshots of what's happening in a moment. I'm interested in creating music that has that sort of feel."

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