Tav Falco's Panther Burns

Tav Falco's Panther Burns, sometimes shortened to (The) Panther Burns, is a rock band originally from Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 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.
Alongside groups like The Cramps and The Gun Club, Panther Burns is also considered a representative of the Southern Gothic-tinged roots music revival scene.
The group took its name from the Panther Burn plantation south of Greenville, Mississippi. The town, in turn, had taken the name in reference to a wild cat whose raids and nocturnal shrieks had so disturbed area residents in the 19th century that they set a canebrake on fire to keep it at bay after all attempts to trap or kill it had failed.
(Read more at Wikipedia.)
== Links to Peel ==
Peel played the band's debut LP 'Behind The Magnolia Curtain', including a version of Leadbelly's 'Bourgois Blues' (later covered by The Fall, as 'Bourgeois Town'), as well as other early releases in the 1980s, although he largely seemed to lose interest after that. In early 2001, there was a one-off airing for 'Streamline Train' from the current 'Panther Phobia' album, credited to "Tav Falco & The Unapproachable Panther Burns".
In 2012, three Panther Burns LPs were among the first 100 albums by artists beginning with P when first details of Peel's record collection were released online.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
*None
== Sessions ==
*None
== Other Shows Played ==
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;1982
*06 January 1982: She’s The One That Got It (LP – Behind The Magnolia Curtain) Frenzi
*17 January 1982 (BFBS): Where The Rio De Rosa Flows (album - Behind The Magnolia Curtain) Rough Trade
*18 February 1982: Bourgeois Blues (album - Behind The Magnolia Curtain) Rough Trade (The Tav Falco's Panther Burns track is a cover of "Bourgeois Blues", a protest song made famous by Leadbelly in the late 1930s and credited on the album to him and folklorist Alan Lomax. According to Wikipedia, the authorship of the song is disputed, but it has been covered by artists such as Pete Seeger, Ry Cooder and Billy Bragg.)
*04 November 1982: Panther Man (12" EP - Blow Your Top)
*01 December 1982 (BFBS): Pantherman (12" EP - Blow Your Top) Rough Trade
*05 December 1982 (BFBS): Bertha Lou (12" EP - Blow Your Top) Rough Trade 
;1984
*04 July 1984 (BFBS): Dateless Night (v/a album - Rockabilly Psychosis And The Garage Disease) Big Beat 
;1985
*26 November 1985: Working On A Building (12" - Sugar Ditch Revisited) New Rose
;1986
*26 August 1986: Cuban Rebel Girl (12" - Shake Rag E.P.) New Rose
*11 September 1986 (BFBS): Cuban Rebel Girl (12"-Shake Rag E.P.) New Rose
;1987
*25 March 1987: She's My Witch (LP - The World We Knew) New Rose
*April 1987 (Radio Bremen): Do The Robot (album - The World We Knew) New Rose
*03 April 1987 (BFBS): Do The Robot (LP-The World We Knew) New Rose
*10 April 1987 (BFBS): Big Road Blues (LP-The World We Knew) New Rose
*27 April 1987: The World We Knew (LP - The World We Knew) New Rose
*13 August 1987 (Radio Bremen): She's A Bad Motorcycle (album - The World We Knew) New Rose
;2001
*03 January 2001: Streamline Train (CD: Panther Phobia) In The Red Recordings 
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: P
*Cover Versions
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Frenzi Records: Tav Falco
*tavfalco.com
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