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Tav Falco’s Panther Burns Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

with The Tall Pines

Fri May 31st, 2019

8:00PM

Main Space

Minimum Age: 18+

Doors Open: 7:00PM

Show Time: 8:00PM

Event Ticket: $20 / $25

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Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

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Nearly four decades into his musical career, Tav Falcois poised to take centerstage with the provocative and timely Cabaret of Daggers. The album features newly-penned Falco originals which question the sanity of our troubled times, alongside carefully-curated selections from over 80 years of the Great American Songbook.

A fixture on the international music scene since 1981, Falco has been described by The New York Times as “A singer, guitarist and researcher of musical arcana who hasn’t let his increasingly technical expertise and idiomatic mastery compromise the clarity of his vision.”

Raised in rural Arkansas and a key figure on the Memphis music scene of the 1970s and ‘80s, Falco was a frequent visitor to Europe as the frontman for his storied and long-running band, Panther Burns. He eventually fell in love with the Old World splendor of Vienna, and has been a resident of the Austrian capital since the late 1990s. Falco pays homage to his adopted city on “Red Vienna,” co-written with Cabaret of Daggers’ producer/guitarist, Mario Monterosso. Benefitting from a rich musical palette which evokes Django Reinhardt, Italian neorealism cinema, and a nursery rhyme cadence, “Red Vienna” recounts the history of fascism’s rise in Italy. Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund Freund and Gustav Klimt all find their way into the lyric, and the dreamy, surreal song also acts as a warning to modern-day listeners as we witness, on a daily basis, the rise of similar authoritarian politicking across the world stage.

While “Red Vienna” addresses autocratic regimes from a historical perspective, “New World Order Blues” brings us bang up to date. A crowd favorite when premiered at this spring’s Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, the thumping, strutting “New World Order Blues” takes thinly-disguised aim at our current instigator of global chaos. “Dumb yourself down, or get out of town is the current message from the U.S. government,” says Falco. “Is America going to sell out its ethical dignity for a pseudo bubble economy predicated on scorched earth policy? Moral bankruptcy and malignant rage reign down from the highest echelons, while honest Americans are either duped or forced off the grid.”

Lodged at the fervent, beating heart of Cabaret of Daggers are a pair of legendary jazz standards which underscore the cabaret theme of the album’s title. Falco’s interpretation of the Chet Baker classic “Born to Be Blue” (written in 1946 by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells), fits the singer like a velvet glove. He pours his heart and soul into this outsider classic; the resonance of experience is palpable. Descending into an even darker shade of blue, Falco also revisits “Strange Fruit,” undeniably the 20th century’s most harrowing anthem of doom. “Billie Holiday is the mistress of ‘Strange Fruit,’ and always will be,” says Falco. “Yet, after years of this dirge lurking in the background of my thoughts, I knew that one day I would be ready for it. Ready to sing it — not in a conscious way, but in an unconscious way. It is the supreme American song of dissent.”

If you’re at all familiar with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, the band’s reputation as a world class rock & blues party revue looms large. Falco’s current lineup of the group, which also backs him on this solo effort, is comprised entirely of Italian musicians simpatico with the dynamic Panther Burns legacy. Mario Monterosso, who has been at Falco’s side since his 2014 solo album Command Performance, produced the album, provided arrangements, and plays the lion’s share of guitar. Francesco D’Agnolo dazzles on acoustic piano, Hammond organ, and accordion. The nuanced rhythm section is provided by Giuseppe Sangirardi on electric bass and Riccardo Colasante on drums and percussion.

“Strange (Libertango)” is a tour de force which finds the band locked in a groove, certain to thrill anyone intimate with Astor Piazzolla’s original or Grace Jones’ reworking of the track as “I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango).” Album opener “Nobody’s Baby” introduces the evocative world of Cabaret of Daggers with a similar tango rhythm. Falco’s hip-shakin’ interpretation of the Jaynetts’ 1963 girl group classic “Sally Go ‘Round the Roses” is so uproarious it could have featured in the Corny Collins Show dance contest in John Waters’ Hairspray. Fans of David Lynch will swoon at the strains of Santo & Johnny Farina’s 1959 chart-topping instrumental, “Sleep Walk.” The proceedings take a bluesy turn with the haunting, Depression-era “Sugar Mama Blues” and the more recent Jolie Holland composition, “Old Fashioned Morphine.” “Master of Chaos Theme” closes the LP with a moody instrumental tribute to the French crime hero Fantômas. The digital download (also free with LPs purchased directly athttp://www.orgmusic.com) includes a bonus track, “The World We Knew,” a new recording of a track which originally featured on Panther Burns’ 1987 album of the same name.

The Tall Pines

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“With long straight hair falling over sky high cheekbones and a penchant for floor-length dresses Connie Petruk looks like she stepped out of late ‘60s / early ‘70s Nashville and sings like the lost sister of Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield. Her honeyed alto will melt the frost off your windshield, and the band’s confident backing matches her attitude flawlessly. The Tall Pines are equal parts soul and twang, molasses and moonshine, sass and skill.” –NPR MUSIC

The Tall Pines is a family collaboration of singer Connie Lynn Petruk, and songwriter Christmas Davis, organist Joanna Choy and drummer Robert Brazier. Connie Lynn was born in Edmonton Alberta, and started singing at the Calgary Stampede Rodeo when she was just a little girl. After a few seasons spent entertaining the cowboys in Calgary, she moved to New York to seek her fortune. Christmas was raised with a colorful southern family whose members often find their way into his songs. Growing up, he spent every Sunday attending a Pentecostal church, at the insistence of his mother who was addicted to two things: Jesus, and the tambourine. Joanna packed up her belongings and moved from her California home to New York City to be a political activist. But, she found her calling singing in clubs and coffee houses in Brooklyn and Manhattan’s Lower East Side. This is where she met Connie and Chris, and helped them grow The Tall Pines. Robert Brazier, a mystery to all, showed up late one night at the band’s secret hideaway. Dressed impeccably, but with his hands covered in a strange white chalk, Robert has never offered any explanation for his appearance that night or otherwise.

“(The) Tall Pines, a knowing, ass-kicking ’70s Nashville revamp fronted by bodacious Connie Lynn Petruk.” –Richard Gehr, The Village Voice

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