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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