Tav Falco: Talking with a Panther
Kris Needs, Record Collector, 6 October 2012
FEW FIGURES to emerge from post-punk's anarchic musical battle-boudoir have charted such an intensely idiosyncratic or enigmatic path as Tav Falco, a.k.a. Panther Burns. Roaring out of the late '70s Memphis underground art scene, mentored by local legends Alex Chilton and Jim Dickinson, they oozed Southern gothic hoodoo and rockabilly energy, hotwiring early US musical styles such as blues, country and rock'n'roll with Falco's escalating panoramic spectrum of artistic influences and substrates such as his expressionist-influenced movie-making and tango dancing.
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