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.
Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Stuart, Chortle
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Al Murray, Comedian
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Mearecate, Youtube