Deep in the Blues: Tav Falco and Panther Burns
Glenn O'Brien, Interview, 1988
Tav Falco is a bluesman from Memphis. He might look like Charlie Chaplin, but inside he feels just like T-Bone Walker. He might have ethnomusicologist tendencies, but he has the diction of an Edgar Allan Poe or, when the wind is from the South, maybe of an Odysseus in a Walker Percy Odyssey.
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