Tav Falco Panther Burns

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‘ballroom gothic juntabilly garage band’ Tav Falco's Panther Burns, sometimes shortened to "(The) Panther Burns", is an errant musical troupe performing stripped-down, often primitive rock and roll and other styles, originally from Memphis led by Tav Falco. They are best known for having been part of a set of bands emerging in the late 1970s and early 1980s who helped nationally popularize the blending of blues, country, and other American traditional music styles with rock music among groups playing in alternative music and punk music venues of the time. The earliest and most renowned of these groups to imbue these styles with expressionist theatricality and primitive spontaneity were The Cramps, largely influenced by rockabilly music. Forming just after them in 1979, Panther Burns drew on obscure country blues music, Antonin Artaud's works like The Theater and Its Double, beat poetry, and Marshall McLuhan's media theories for their early inspiration. Alongside groups like The Cramps and The Gun Club, Panther Burns ranked among the contributing influences and progenitors of the Southern Gothic-tinged roots music revival scene that arose during the last two decades of the 20th Century and continued into the early 2000s. Artists whose work has been mentioned in the media as having been anticipated by that of Panther Burns as forerunner or who have themselves mentioned the group as one of their influences include the American alternative music artists Southern Culture on the

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albums

Behind The Magnolia Curtain

Panther Phobia

Behind The Magnolia Curtain / Blow Your Top

Behind the Magnolia Curtain + Blow Your Top

Return of the Blue Panther

Shadow Dancer

The World We Knew

The World We Knew + Shake Rag + Live

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The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project: The Journey Is Long

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Sci Fi Lo Fi Compiled By Andy Weatherall

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Sci-Fi-Lo-Fi, Vol. 1

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Hip Flask: An Introduction to Tav Falco & Pather Burns

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