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Tav Falco's Panther Burns

Band, *1979 US, Memphis, Tennessee
Rock
A.k.a. The 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. 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

Members

	Alex Chilton g, voc 1950-2010 US
	Gregoire Garrigues g, voc FR
	Lorette Velvette voc, g US
	Tav Falco voc, g *1945 US
	Peter Mavrogeorgis g, syn, voc
	Ross Johnson dr
	Jim Duckworth g, dr
	Jack Yarber voc
	Tammo Lüers g
	George Reinecke g CA
	Ron Miller b
	Misty White dr, perc
	Laurent Lanouzière s-g FR
	Giovanna Pizzorno perc, dr IT