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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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork