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***Named after a legendary plantation located still off Highway 61 in the lower Delta, the Panther Burns began their art actions around 1979 in a Memphis cotton loft, grew through the 1990s to a home in Vienna (and in Paris, where their tango performance attracted international notoriety). With the brilliant Panther Phobia they have returned to the mythic Memphis garage of their origins. Recorded and mixed in Memphis by Messrs. Jeffrey Evans (former Gibson Brother and the talent behind the '68 Comeback) and Doug Easley (producer and host to the stars at his studio, Easley Recording - 901-323-5407 if you don't believe it), Panther Phobia heralds a return to the tumultuous and exuberant tones and groans of the Panther Burns' landmark first LP Behind The Magnolia Curtain. The music is organic, like a landlord's eviction squad. Drums pound like irate neighbors at the door. Slow songs snake like a chick passing out on 'ludes. You will lock your doors when you hear this record, you will bar your windows, blood will flow from your nose, your lungs will itch. You will get a divorce, a speeding ticket, eleven twenty nine in the workhouse.
--Robert Gordon, Memphis See also Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Doo Rag, the Gories, the Gibson Brothers, Fat Possum Records and Rooster Blues, the Flat Duo Jets, Southern Culture on the Skids. - The missing link between the unbridled howl of early swamp blues and the psychological onslaught of the new millennium.
- Falco has been a tireless patron and champion of such talent as R. L. Burnside, Charlie Feathers, Cordell Jackson, Sir Mack Rice, Othar Turner and his Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson. Yes, it shows.
- Tav Falco and his Unapproachable Panther Burns were shaking all over during wreckabilly, juntabilly, psychotropic evenings long before such genres were invented. Still are.
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Streamline Train
She Wants to Sell My Monkey
Going Home
Once I Had a Car
The Young Psychotics
Cypress Grove
Wild Wild Women
Cockroach
Mellow Peaches
Panther Phobia: Manifesto!
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