RENDAN Greaves starts and ends , his authorised biography of Terry Allen, with a crow. The crow is a sculptural work made to immortalise the ashen remains of Allen’s friend and collaborator, fellow Texan songwriter Guy Clark. The two played together as Los Dos Rockin’ Tacos, and Clark’s last playful “fuck you” to his old pal as he suffered with lymphoma was the instruction that Allen should cast a bronze goat and store Clark’s cremated remains in its rear. Instead, Allen settled on an enlarged crow, a nod to
