From the crucible of Memphis honky tonks and inelegant dives, Tav Falco's Panther Burns reared it's flaming, woolly head in the year of 1979. Soon Falco, known then only as the 'Beale Street Blues Bopper', led his group of errant electric troubadours into the vortex of New York's new wave/no wave anti-art scene. As purveyors of art-damage Dixie-fried style, the group embodied the wreck-a-billy ethos that the New York downtown scene was craving. With the shrewdness of a record entrepreneur with no ear for music, Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade commissioned the first album of Panther Burns.