Tav Falco’s motto, the filmmaker Robert Gordon once noted, is “you compose ‘em, we decompose ‘em.” It’s a modus operandi that was especially evident back in the early ‘80s, when Falco’s swampy, ...

Tav Falco is the ultimate rock and roll auteur, having crafted a persona that tossed convention in the dustbin like yesterday’s news, thereby putting the world on notice. Even saying he purveys “rock ...

It has been 40 years since Tav Falco unleashed his band, Panther Burns, on an unsuspecting world. Founded in Memphis and inspired by the likes of Charlie Feathers, R.L. Burnside, Jimmy Reed and a ...

Tav Falco is a musician, yes. But the near-homonym “magician” may be just as appropriate a job description for the former Gustavo Antonio Falco Nelson of Clark County, Arkansas, who came to Memphis ...