Today’s rockabilly revivalists – Imelda May and Kitty, Daisy and Lewis – revere their sources.
But in the late seventies degenerate New Yorkers and track-marked Australians pointed their quiffs at the future, and bled post-punk noise over the music’s bones.
This collection of Tav Falco’s early recordings finds the legendary Memphis polymath howling off-key over perfectly out-of-synch broken blues from the Panther Burns band, featuring Big Star’s Alex Chilton on uncharacteristically sloppy guitar and Jim Sclavunos on drums, later poached by an indebted Nick Cave.
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum