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http://atlantatimemachine.com/misc/porter1.htm

Welcome, Porter Wagoner fans.

The next several pages are a a bit of a departure as they don’t have much to do with this website’s normal topic, that of Atlanta history.  Instead, they are intended to serve as an appreciation of one of the coolest album covers ever unleashed on the music buying public.  If you’ve glanced over to the right, then you’re probably already aware of the fact that I’m referring to Porter Wagoner’s Cold Hard Facts Of Life LP.

In Aug. 2004, I headed up to Nashville for a little fun and relaxation and while there decided to do a little exploring to see if I could find the location used by Porter Wagoner for the brilliantly twisted cover photo of his 1966 RCA album The Cold Hard Facts of Life.  Having been fascinated with the album cover for well over a decade, this seemed to me like a reasonable way to spend a little vacation time.

Fortunately, I had with me a copy of the album cover itself and Steve Eng’s fact-filled 1992 biography of Porter Wagoner.  The book, A Satisfied Mind: The Country Music Life of Porter Wagoner, (Rutledge Hill Press) is well worth tracking down if you’re a fan of Porter’s.

If you’re not familiar with The Cold Hard Facts of Life,  you can click hereand give it a listen.  The song, one of the best cheating records in all of country music, is the story of a hapless stiff who returns home from a trip a day early only to  find out his wife hasn’t been entirely faithful.  For a visual reference, see the album cover to your right.

On second thought,  the song The Cold Hard Facts of Life was written by Bill Anderson, who was raised in the Atlanta suburb of Avondale Estates and attended the University of Georgia.  So, upon reflection, there is a local history connection here after all.

As far as this mission was concerned, the paydirt paragraph in the Porter Wagoner biography is the final paragraph on page 159, in which the author reveals that the photograph for the LP cover was taken in Porter’s own apartment, amazingly enough.    Fortunately, he also divulges the name of the building and the number of the apartment Porter inhabited!

What was a star of Wagoner’s stature doing living in a tiny apartment in the first place?  Well, in 1965 Porter’s marriage fell apart and he moved out of his family’s home and into the Americana Apartments.

Upon arriving at 1906 Chet Atkins Place (South Street, back in the days that Porter resided there) it was very good to see that the Americana Apartments building was still standing.  

After getting the photo on the right, I headed inside to go snap a picture of the door of apartment #104 where the cover for the Cold Hard Facts of Life LP was shot.

After getting a picture of the door, I decided to see if anyone was home so I could share with the current resident the story of who used to live in his apartment.  I figured that anyone living there should definitely know such information.

Fortunately, as mentioned earlier, I had with me a of copy the LP itself and the Porter Wagoner biography that revealed that the photo was taken in the doorway of Porter’s very own apartment.  It’s probably always a good idea to have some documentation with you if you’re going to knock on a stranger’s door and try to convince him that Porter Wagoner used to live there.

After knocking on the door, though, no one answered so I reluctantly decided to head out.  On the way down the hall, I noticed a sign saying something like “If you need assistance, please knock on the manager’s door.”  Determined to share the information with somebody, I figured I’d burden the building manager with the story.  So I banged on his door and while waiting for an answer, a guy entered the building and walked past on his way down the hall toward apartment #104.  We exchanged courteous nods as he walked by and headed for, you guessed it, Porter’s old apartment.

When I noticed he was reaching for his keys as he approached the door in question, I blurted out, “Excuse me….do you live in apt. #104?”

“Yep.”

His name was Brandon and I showed him the album cover photo and the text in the biography that verified that he was indeed living in Porter Wagoner’s old apartment.  Like any sensible person, he seemed to think that this was pretty cool.

Brandon was a very good sport and when  I asked if he’d mind if I posed in the doorway and stood in Porter’s place for a photo, he graciously agreed.

Apart from furnishings and the fact that the cinder block walls were no longer dark green, almost nothing had changed within the apartment.

So there you have it, Porter Wagoner fans.  Who says there is no fun to be had in Nashville?

Compare and contrast!  The cover of the Cold Hard Facts of Life LP was obviously the source for artist Bob Frye, who created a brilliantly sleazy homage to Porter Wagoner’s album cover for a painting that was used for the cover of a T. Tex Edwards LP in the early 1990’s.  The LP (Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill) was released on the Sympathy For The Record Industry label (SFTRI 43) and, like the Porter Wagoner LP, includes the song The Cold Hard Facts of Life.

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Various Artists - Are We Too Late For The Trend? (Original Texas Punk) https://youtu.be/ajtGG9sKjBw?feature=shared 

[INCLUDES: The Nervebreakers - I Love Your Neurosis & Barry Kooda Kombo - So Sorry]

A1 (0:0:27) - Vomit Pigs - My Face Is On Your Lunch Box A2 (0:2:37) - Plastic Idols - Siamese Love A3 (0:4:12) - The Telefones - Solid Ground A4 (0:7:29) - The Infants - Giant Girl In The 5th Grade A5 (0:10:12) - Blindate - We’re Not Here A6 (0:12:38) - Barry Kooda - So Sorry A7 (0:16:40) - E=MC² - Rocket, Rocket B1 (0:19:50) - The Skuds - Dead Dogs B2 (0:23:06) - Control - Nightmare In My Closet B3 (0:24:58) - Smegma - Whips And Midgets B4 (0:28:55) - Superman’s Girlfriend - Lois, Lois B5 (0:33:47) - Nervebreakers - I Love Your Neurosis B6 (0:36:56) - Snakes - Karen Ann

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THE STASH DAUBER

RANTS OF AN UNRECONSTRUCTED MUSIC GEEK WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2022

https://stashdauber.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-nervebreakers-face-up-to-reality.html

The Nervebreakers’ “Face Up to Reality”

[This time it’s personal. My second most anticipated release of the millennium (after the Peter Laughner box) is here. I’m not going to review it, because I wrote the liner notes, which are reproduced in full below, including the part that wouldn’t fit on the jacket. To say these guys are important to me would be an understatement. If my drummer from college hadn’t seen them open for the Sex Pistols, I might not have moved from New York to Texas. Between 1978 and 1981, I saw them more times than any other band besides the Juke Jumpers. Mike Haskins remains my guitar hero, and Barry Kooda my human being hero. Bob Childress once surprised me with a message on the RadioShack corporate net after I’d written something about them online. My wife and I once made a pilgrimage to Austin to see Tex Edwards play a bar gig. And I’m proud to say that Carl Giesecke once played sleighbells on “I Wanna Be Your Dog” with Stoogeaphilia. But enough about me. I’ve got to go listen to this again.

]Think of this record as a follow-up that took a while to emerge.

It was 1980, 40 years ago as I write this, when the Nervebreakers – who’d bossed the nascent Dallas punk scene from its inception, opened for every punk/”new wave” touring act that passed through Big D (Ramones, Sex Pistols, Clash, Police, Boomtown Rats), and made the pages of Rolling Stone via the image of guitarist Barry Kooda with a fish in his mouth onstage at the Pistols show – recorded their sole long player, We Want Everything!, which then took 14 years to make it onto vinyl.

The Nervebreakers coalesced in 1975 when Kooda, a junior college theater major back from Army service in Korea, managed to insinuate himself into the “arty rock band” Mr. Nervous Breakdown, formed by his high school best friend, guitarist Mike Haskins, with fellow record store employee Thom “Tex” Edwards. Haskins and Edwards bonded over their mutual appreciation for the Raspberries’ combination of tuneful songcraft and rock crunch. Drummer Carl Giesecke was a moonlighting symphony percussionist, while bassist Bob Childress, who’d joined after the Ramones show, held the distinction of having seen both the Stooges and the New York Dolls every night for a week at Richard’s in Atlanta while attending Georgia Tech.

Onstage, they had a formidable presence, honed over years of four-set gigs, with frontman Edwards draped rakishly over the mic stand, Kooda in his Army helmet and pistol belt, Haskins looking like Donnie Osmond’s axe-slinging twin, Childress bouncing around like the Uberfan who got to join his favorite band, and Giesecke pounding out a solid pulse. Their repertoire included covers as diverse as We Five’s “You Were On My Mind,” George Jones’ “The Race Is On,” and the Troggs’ “Strange Movies.” More to the point, they penned potent originals: “Hijack the Radio,” “Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls,” “My Girlfriend Is a Rock.” Haskins and Edwards were the main writers, with occasional contributions from Kooda, but drummer Giesecke claims credit for their best known song.

When the sessions for We Want Everything! were complete, Haskins and Childress left to form Bag O’ Wire, while the Nervebreakers recruited replacements for an East Coast tour, after which the band folded. Edwards and Kooda followed different musical directions, while Giesecke toured with Roky Erickson (whom the Nervebreakers had backed in 1979).

Fast forward to 2008, when the Nervebreakers reconvened in Haskins’ home studio to record some songs they’d never gotten around to documenting back when. The energy and excitement of the band in its heyday were still in ample supply, along with tunefulness, crunch, and sardonic wit. Highlights include the title track’s snaky rifferama, the leg-twitching rockabilly of “Just Yawn,” the splenetic snarl of “Don’t Wanna Be Used,” and the sprightly punk-country of “I Don’t Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Kooda penned the ennui anthem “Wake Me Up,” and co-wrote the dance-craze theme “They Were Doing the Pogo.” The closing triptych of “It’s Obvious,” “Breaking Down,” and “I’d Rather Die” provides a rousing conclusion to a rockin’ set of tunes that’s long overdue, but right on time.

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“Formerly Street Queen” was the very first song I wrote with my Nervebreakers songwriting partner Mike Haskins. I am guessing that was perhaps 1975 or ’76, when I was around 21 years old. “Formerly Street Queen” is an excellent example of it’s time & what is now referred to as “proto-punk,” with alternating fast & slow parts topped off with an epic-sounding final long section, building up to a resolution with a spaghetti-western turn at the end. 

My old band from that era, The Nervebreakers, have a new/old album (FACE UP TO REALITY) released last year by Freddie Krc’s SteadyBoy Records, filled with original songs written & performed during the band’s late ‘70s heyday, but never documented & recorded until a 2009 band reunion. Got that? New in 2022, but recorded in 2009, but composed before 1980. “Formerly Street Queen” is included on this release.

Please check your local record store to see if it’s in stock. If you don’t find it there, I have some available here on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155359139433

The ‘street queen’ illustration included here was one I lifted from a social media post, with no attribution listed for it’s source, that I ran across recently. Since we had a song with that in the title I posted it to Facebook with a link https://youtu.be/OHUHncPED2w to the song. Lo & behold, the wonderful Miriam Linna of Norton Records  commented & informed me: “That image was hacked out of Bad Seed mag!” Bad Seed was a famous groundbreaking fanzine she & her late husband, Billy Miller, put together many years ago. So I quickly inserted in my posting the real source for this image that you see here, with apologies. Miriam’s one of the coolest, cutest dolls around but I know you don’t wanna get on the bad side of the original “bad seed.“

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The Nervebreakers flyer with the fetish model & the story of DJ’s & The Hot Klub in Dallas

https://ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-nervebreakers-flyer-with-fetish.html

Pat Blashill posted this old Nervebreakers flyer yesterday with a note that said: “Nervebreakers show at DJs, Dallas, 1980. The much beloved Nervebreakers pre-dated punk in the Big D, and are said to have had a quasi-New York Dolls phase. DJswas one of the first punk clubs in the city, although not as well known (or funded?) as The Hot Klub. Poster by Nervebreakers singer T. Tex Edwards. The woman in the photo is Tana Louise, who was once known as the Cincinnati Sinner, and like Bettie Page, was also a fetish model for Irving Klaw (ID courtesy of the lovely Mae Barone.)” 

My two cents: DJ’s was before the Hot Klub. There was a very short period of time where they overlapped. “Better funded” is an understatment. Punk stumbled upon Delores Nolley, DJ’s proprietor (who had some sort of Jack Ruby connection in her younger days). When some punks in a band called The Infants (ex-Dot Vaeth Group members David & Doug Townsend on guitar & drums, Linda Shaw on bass, who later played with me in Tex & the Saddletramps ’79-’82 & the early version of Out On Parole ’84-’85, & a limey cat named Jeff Westley on vocals, who hung out at the clothing store next door on lower Greenville Avenue, approached Delores about letting them set up & play in her tiny bar, a scene was born. She was ill-equipped to be booking bands above the local punk level, who just wanted any place to play that would let them come in & bash away for tips. Eventually, bands from Austin would come up to play DJ’s. I don’t know what payment they were promised, someone from one of those bands would have to chime in on that. But I do know that the first time The Cramps came to Texas, they played Austin & Houston, but no-showed DJ’s in Dallas because the word had gotten around that she didn’t always come up with promised guarantee She also promoted what I think was the first “punk festival” in Texas, ‘DJ’s First Annual New Wave Retreat’ at the historic Yello’ Belly Speedway in Grand Prairie. (see second image above/flyer by Frank Campagna)

The Hot Klub was a venture run by much more experienced Dallas musicbiz guys, Mark Lee (who had managed & promoted Dallas garagebanders Kenny & the Kasuals in the late 1960s) & Danny Eaton, formerly of Eaton-Page who ran The Palladium, up on Northwest Highway in Dallas, where The Nervebreakers had opened shows for John Cale, The Police, & The Clash on their first run through Texas. Coincidentally, The Clash show was the same weekend as Dolores’ New Wave Retreat (October ’79?) & Joe Strummer referenced it onstage into the microphone on that night. Just months later Lee & Eaton astutely saw where music was headed, & opened up The Hot Klub on Maple Avenue in a building that had formerly been a good sized Hispanic Disco, right across the side street from a Jack-In-The-Box drive-through burger joint. Local bands now had a bigger, more organized room to gig at, with a built-in good sound system & soundman. And every new wave, ska, neo-rockabilly, post-punk, up & coming touring band that came through Dallas in that 1980-83 period played at The Hot Klub. From Jeffery Lee Pierce wailing on his bugle, to the Stranglers’ roadies tossing Bobby Soxx out of the upstairs dressing room & down the stairs & Soxx subsequently slashing all tires on their rented Ryder truck parked out front. It was always hopping at the Hot Klub…

The third image from above is the original image of Tana Louise I recently ran across, that I swiped from Andy Warhol’s Interview or another of those New York City rags for this flyer & was later used for The Nervebreakers’ first album coverart…

Also, check out Pat Blashill’s great ‘Texas Is The Reason’ book, plus he is currently working on an oral history of Lone Star punk for UT Press.

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Gig list for The Nervebreakers from Mike Haskins' flicker page https://www.flickr.com/photos/26263538@N02/albums/

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TWANGSVILLE REVISITED: T. TEX EDWARDS FAMILY TREE?

https://twangsvillerevisited.blogspot.com/2021/12/t-tex-edwards-family-tree.html

THE NERVEBREAKERS

T. Tex Edwards is an unsung pioneer of cowpunk and honky tonk murder ballads who started out in the ‘70s with the punk band the Nervebreakers. Thom “Tex” Edwards’ whiskey-soaked vocals already had a slight country twang to them back in 1978 even as the band performed their goofy anthems while supporting the Sex Pistols in Dallas. Drawing influence from the Flamin’ Groovies and the Cramps rather than the more political end of the punk spectrum, the Nervebreakers were equally at home lampooning “You’re The One That I Want” from Grease as they were playing it straight (relatively) with the Kinks’ “I’m Not Like Everybody Else.” Their original material was rousing and funny, and “My Girlfriend Is A Rock” was even a minor hit in San Francisco. The band never released a full-length record in their lifetime, even though they had an almost legendary local reputation. A live performance of them backing Roky Erickson at the Dallas Palladium in 1979 was released in 1992, and a posthumous CD recorded in 1980, We Want Everything!, was finally released by Get Hip in 2000.

01 - [1978] Politics 7" (2021 Remaster)

A deluxe remastered reissue of 1978 original Wild Child Records single by badass Texas punk rock band the Nervebreakers! Like all Texas punk of the era, this is no letdown, including two smash hits on this 4-song EP. 01 - Politics 02 - My Life Is Ruined 03 - I Can’t Help You 04 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock 320k 34.4 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

02 - [1980] We Want Everything! (2000 Reissue)

Hailing from Dallas, TX, the Nervebreakers first got together in 1973 but didn’t take off until the mid-’70s punk movement started to affect most larger urban areas of the US. The Nervebreakers quickly rose to the top of the pack in Dallas releasing three singles which are now hard to find. This CD was recorded in 1980 and was to have been their debut LP. 01 - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly 02 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock 03 - Girls Girls Girls Girls Girls 04 - I Confess 05 - I Don’t Believe In Anything 06 - I’ve Got A Problem 07 - How Can You Tell 08 - Strange Movies 09 - Let’s Fall Apart 10 - What’s Left Of Me 11 - The Race Is On 12 - Stand Up 320k 77.5 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

03 - [1981] Girls Girls Girls Girls 7" (2011 Reissue)

On 19 November 1980 the Nervebreakers won the “Agora’s Battle Of The Bands” in Dallas TX. Their prize was free recording time at Pantego Sound Studios in Arlington, TX where these two songs were recorded. The single was originally released in 1981 on Wild Child Records, but by then the band had already parted company. Great single by Dallas 70’s Punk-rock band! A-side is a catchy original track and is backed with a cool cover of a Rolling Stones classic marked with the Nervebreakers snotty style. 01 - Girls Girls Girls Girls 02 - I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys 320k 13.9 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

04 - [2000] Hijack The Radio! (2017 Reissue)

An anthology of mid to late '70s studio recordings, some of which ended up on the Nervebreakers’ late-70s 7″ vinyl releases on Wild Child Records, some on the 1979 Texas punk LP compilation Are We Too Late For The Trend? (ESR Records), some on a volume of Italian label Rave Up Records series of American Lost Punk Rock Nuggets, and others that have up-to-now never been publicly released. Includes the original (and best) hit recording of “My Girlfriend Is A Rock”, the title anthem “Hijack The Radio!”, and punk classics like ”Why Am I So Flipped?”, “I Wanna Kill You”, and “I Love Your Neurosis”. Also included are proto-punk psych-y gems like “My Life Is Ruined” and “Beyond The Borderline”. The CD release has four additional CD-only bonus cuts including an early (different from the We Want Everything LP) take on the Troggs’ great “Strange Movies”, an original 1977 demo version of “Hijack The Radio”, and from 1975, a moody slice of Syd Barrett-like proto-punk-psych called “See Me Thru”. 01 - Hijack The Radio! 02 - My Girlfriend Is A Rock 03 - Why Am I So Flipped? 04 - My Life Is Ruined 05 - I Love Your Neurosis 06 - Everything Right 07 - Missa Moses 08 - So Sorry 09 - I Wanna Kill You 10 - It’s Too Late 11 - Beyond The Borderline 12 - Part Of My Love 13 - See Me Thru 14 - Strange Movies 15 - Hijack The Radio! ('77 Demo)

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05 - [2014] I Wanna Kill You 7"

This brilliant single features an original 1977 alternate track from The Nervebreakers’ LP Hijack The Radio! while the B-side premieres “They Were Doin’ The Pogo” a  newer recording. 01 - I Wanna Kill You 02 - They Were Doin’ The Pogo Track 01 recorded early 1977 at Highgrove House, Dallas, TX. Track 02 recorded 2008 at Ash Creek Estates Recording, Dallas, TX. 320k 14.5 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

ROKY ERICKSON & THE NERVEBREAKERS

Despite possessing great talents and a voice that can squeeze emotion from a stone if necessary, Roky Erickson’s life and music career have been a mess; he was one of many casualties of the psychedelic '60s. So it’s always a joy when another Erickson tape is discovered and the quality is superior. Erickson is in fine form for this 1979 Dallas gig with the Nervebreakers. The musicians are tight and focused as they run through classics such as “Starry Eyes,” “Cold Night For Alligators,” “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” and “Two-Headed Dog.” The sound quality is sharp and far less challenging than the bootleg quality of Live at the Ritz 1987. Most exciting is the material. The obvious favorites are here, but so are “The Wind And More,” “Mine Mine Mind,” “Bermuda,” and “White Faces,” tunes he recorded with The Aliens. They’re done with high spirits and some inspired guitar playing.

[1992] Live Dallas 1979

01 - The Wind And More 02 - Starry Eyes 03 - Mine Mine Mind 04 - Bermuda 05 - Cold Night For Alligators 06 - The Interpreter 07 - You’re Gonna Miss Me 08 - I Walked With A Zombie 09 - Bo Diddley’s A Headhunter 10 - Two-Headed Dog 11 - Bloody Hammer 12 - White Faces 320k 120.4 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

T. TEX EDWARDS & OUT ON PAROLE

Edwards’ first post-Nervebreakers outfit, Tex & The Saddle Tramps, left scarce but vital documentation, such as the churlish rocker “Move It!” that later would appear on The Loafin’ Hyenas record and be covered by LeRoi Brothers. Still most of the T. Tex legend from the early to mid-'80s remains only in the recollections of those fortunate enough to catch him performing his offbeat brand of incorrigible country live. His growling redneck delivery is at times unhinged, but it’s instantly recognizable, highly addictive, and consistently manages to hit the narrow margin between parody and reverence, often accomplishing both. He formed Out On Parole in Austin in 1984, and The Loafin’ Hyenas in Hollywood in 1986, but it took until 1989 before things finally started moving forward. His first solo album – as Tex Edwards & Out on Parole – was a stroke of demented genius that caused a stir when cult label Sympathy for the Record Industry released it yet proved more an inspiration than the chart-topper it should have been. Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill was a collection of “psycho-country” covers done with a relatively straight face and high musical pedigree – LeRoi Brothers/Fabulous Thunderbirds alumni Mike Buck was the driving force behind the album. It’s not only Johnny Cash who wrote dark country and western songs of adultery and murder; Pardon Me collects obscure, nutty gems from the likes of Johnny Paycheck (the title song), Porter Wagoner (“Rubber Room”), and Lee Hazlewood (“Girl on Death Row”), not to mention the twisted genius of Leon Payne’s “Psycho.” The same ground would be covered in the following decade, sometimes with song selections oddly similar to Pardon Me, but rarely with the same gravelly brilliance.

[1989] Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill (2002 Reissue)

01 - I’m A-Gonna Kill You 02 - L.S.D. Made A Wreck Out Of Me 03 - (Pardon Me) I’ve Got Someone To Kill 04 - The Girl On Death Row 05 - Psycho 06 - You Ain’t Never Gonna Live To Love Saturday Night Again 07 - Smitty 08 - The Cold Hard Facts Of Life 09 - Dolores 10 - Beatin’ On The Bars 11 - Strangler In The Night 12 - The Rubber Room 13 - Country Hix’s 14 - Last Will And Testament (Of A Drinking Man) 320k 90.6 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

THE LOAFIN’ HYENAS

The 1991 release of The Loafin’ Hyenas’ only LP was mostly ignored despite strong original material and another killer band. Songs like “Can’t Find The Doorknob” and “Scratchin’ Fleas” utilized Tex’s distinctive vocals perfectly, and the drunken abandon of the band was captured, bottled, and released only in France and Japan. Further recordings followed under various guises and numerous small labels. T. Tex And The Big “D” Ramblers, DisGraceland, and T. Tex And The Sickoids were a few that made it to record, and one-off projects like 1999’s 18-song Texicated Tape were mostly circulated among the faithful.

[1991] The Loafin’ Hyenas

01 - Can’t Find The Doorknob 02 - Boot In The Toilet 03 - Bonehusker Stomp 04 - Goin’ South 05 - Scatter 06 - Way Of The World 07 - Scratchin’ Fleas 08 - Move It 09 - Klawhammer Krunch 10 - Forbidden See 11 - Diablo_Devil 12 - If Looks Could Kill 13 - Things Must Change 14 - What Goes On 320k 117.6 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

T. TEX EDWARDS & THE SWINGIN’ KORNFLAKE KILLERS

After a long silence, the full-length Up Against the Floor was released in 1996. The Swingin’ Kornflake Killers backed a slightly toned-down Edwards on a selection of offbeat covers (David Bowie’s “Black Country Rock” and Conway Twitty’s “Lonely Blue Boy”) as well as equally memorable originals like the instant standard “Ain’t No Bars In Heaven.” A while later the Nervebreakers announced they were regrouping after their “slight” 27-year hiatus. T. Tex remains a pioneering, under-appreciated, and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock & roll.

[1996] Up Against The Floor (2007 Reissue)

01 - Overture: Dirtweed 02 - Ain’t No Bars In Heaven 03 - Funnel Of Love 04 - One Helluva Weekend 05 - The Living & The Dead 06 - Lonely Blue Boy 07 - Iff'n I Ain’t Dead 08 - How Far Down Can I Go 09 - Gonna Love My Baby Now 10 - Whiskey Trip 11 - Cat’s Back 12 - Black Country Rock 13 - It’s Over (Last Date) 14 - Killer Breakdown 15 - Baby (Crazy Date) 320k 133.0 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

AND FINALLY

T. Tex Edwards - [2012] Intexicated!

T. Tex Edwards “remains a pioneering, under-appreciated, and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock 'n’ roll,” notes All Music Guide. Intexicated! remedies any neglect of this wild and wooly Texas musical treasure with 19 collected odds, sods, unreleased recordings, demos, outtakes and offbeat gems from throughout his distinctively different musical career spent kicking up some seriously cool and twisted dust from the roots rocking underground. Featuring work under his own name as well as such T. Tex outfits as The Loafin’ Hyenas, Tex & The Saddle Tramps and The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers are such top T. Tex moments as renditions of Psycho and Lee Harvey, his classic Move It (also recorded by The LeRoi Brothers), takes on Dave Davies’ Kinks hit Death Of A Clown and Baby’s Got A Gun by The Only Ones, and to wrap it all up, a demo of a commercial Tex cut for the Chili’s restaurant chain. It’s an intexicating collection from an artist of uncommonly cool off-kilter brilliance. 01 - The Big D Ramblers - Intexicated! Part 1 02 - Purple Stickpin - Baby’s Got A Gun 03 - Lithium X-mas - Love Power 04 - Out On Parole - L.S.D. 05 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Move It 06 - The Loafin’ Hyenas - If Looks Could Kill 07 - The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers - Cravin’ 08 - Hickoids - Lee Harvey 09 - The Big D Ramblers - It’s Gravity 10 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Have You Ever Spent The Night In Jail? 11 - Tex & The Saddletramps - Thirteen Women 12 - Out On Parole - Crazy Date 13 - Mechanical Bull - Blood On The Saddle 14 - Out On Parole - Psycho '84 15 - The Loafin’ Hyenas - Goin’ Down South 16 - Lithium X-mas - Nobody Likes Me 17 - The Toe Tags - Death Of A Clown 18 - The Big D Ramblers - Intexicated! Part 2 19 - Tex & Breakfastime - Chili’s Demo 320k 139.8 Mb DOWNLOAD LINK

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thistle 

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"T. Tex at Continental Club on 06/09/12" by Adam Estrada

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T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin' Cornflake Killers at the Whistle Stop, Dallas, Texas 1991

T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin' Cornflake Killers at the Whistle Stop, Dallas, Texas 1991

Newly discovered live footage at the infamous Whistle Stop Lounge "overlooking beautiful Denton Drive" in Dallas from 1991.

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Out Evil Out! (A.T.)  T. Tex Edwards

watercolor on paper 9x12″  (February-March 2023)

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AUDIO: “Diablo/Devil” (T. Edwards-C. Mort) - The Loafin’ Hyenas

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unnamed (A.T.) T. Tex Edwards

watercolor on paper 9x12″ (March 10, 2021)

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September 28, 2012: T. Tex Edwards & Purple Stickpin - "I Don't Believe in Anything" 

‘T. Tex Edwards & Purple Stickpin playing "I Don't Believe in Anything" (originally done by Tex's old band the Nervebreakers) @Legendary White Swan in Austin, Texas.’

photo - Ángel Delgado-Reyes

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bluebonnetfaces T. Tex Edwards

watercolor on paper 8X11″ (march 2016)

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Sympathy For The Record Industry checklist from Darren Viola.

Wow, I am on 008, 009, 36, 43, & 55! Thanks, Long Gone John…

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The NERVEBREAKERS: "Mental Shakedown: Laurent Bigot gets the full story of these long-lasting Texas punks" in ten pages from UGLY THINGS #30