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T. Tex Edwards is an unsung pioneer of cowpunk and honky tonk murder ballads who started out in the '70s with the punk band 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, 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.
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 Loafin' Hyenas in Hollywood in 1986, but it took until 1989 before things finally started moving forward. His first solo album -- as T. Tex Edwards and 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.
The 1990 release of the Loafin' Hyenas' only LP was mostly ignored despite strong original material and another killer band. Songs like "Can't Find the Door Knob" 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 Intexicated Tape were mostly circulated among the faithful.
After a long silence, the full-length Up Against the Floor was released in 2007. 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 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. — JT Lindroos, All Music Guide
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"Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill" - T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole
(Sympathy for the Record Industry) LP
Much like how the Cramps revived rockabilly with a psychotic, campy glee, T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole -- a one-shot studio project helmed by Mike Buck of the LeRoi Brothers -- take hardcore honky tonk murder ballads and perform them with wicked, enthusiastic glee. Essentially, Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill -- the title is taken from an old Johnny Paycheck song -- is a novelty album, but it is one that is done exceptionally well. All of the songs, from Leon Payne's "Psycho" to Porter Wagoner's "The Rubber Room," are major lynchpins in the cult of "psycho country" songs, and the performances are thoroughly entertaining. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Artiest: T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole
CD: Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill
Label: Saustex/Sonic Rendezvous
Voor het eerst op cd! Gekke Tex en zijn vrienden uit Austin, Texas. Demente countrybilly en country & western-murdersongs voor de gein opgenomen met muzikale vrienden. Een daarvan, drummer Mike Buck, stelde hiervoor zijn verzameling obscure en weirde rock-’n-rollsingeltjes ter beschikking aan Tex. Het duurde een paar jaar voordat een label er wat in zag, maar in 1989 ziet Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill dan toch het levenslicht. De lekker ranzige hoes sluit nauw aan bij de portie rauwe countrybilly van Tex en zijn wilde maten. Tex zelf raspt met rauwe stem de covers in de microfoon, en passant vrouwen en concurrerende mannen uit de weg ruimend. Geweldig, nog steeds. Spetterende uitvoeringen van Smitty, L.S.D. Made A Wreck Out Of Me, Dolores, Leon Payne’s Psycho en het fantastische hoogtepunt: Porter Wagoners The Rubber Room. Een klassieker. (Wiebren Rijkeboer)
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"Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill" - T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole-
T.Tex Edwards is a native Texan and as his name suggests he has evolved from being a Punk Rocker with his band The Nervebreakers in the late '70s to a rabid Rockabilly rebel with The Loafin’ Hyenas in the late '80s. For his first solo LP, however, Tex decided to try his hand at Psycho- Country, covering the songs of previous masters of the genre together with the brilliant Out On Parole as his backing band. He joyfully sinks his teeth into 13 tales of murder and love gone bad. It is a record that brings together a selection of Country music's bleakest moments.
T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole was really a one-shot studio project helmed by Mike Buck of the LeRoi Brothers. Essentially, Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill — the title is taken from an old Johnny Paycheck song, it is a novelty album but it is one that is done exceptionally well. All of the songs, from Leon Payne's 'Psycho' to Porter Wagoner's 'The Rubber Room,' are major lynchpins in the cult of 'psycho country' songs, and the performances are thoroughly entertaining. The album was originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry Records (SFTRI43) sometime in 1989 but I think was later re-released by the French Record label New Rose. T.Tex also issued 'Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine' as a single on SFTRI which was written by today's other featured artist, Homer Henderson.
from SAN ANTONIO CURRENT / MUSIC / ALL EARS (6/4/2008)
BY JOHN DEFORE
Local label Saustex has set free a T. Tex Edwards record, (Pardon Me) I’ve Got Someone to Kill, originally released by Sympathy for the Record Industry in 1989, reminding honky-tonkers just how murderous their chosen music can be. A well curated selection of covers featuring violently deranged tunes such as “Psycho” and “I’m A Gonna Kill You,” the disc matches shocking lyrics (which were sometimes gussied up with commercial arrangements in their original recordings) with appropriate sonic values.
The opening verse of the title track epitomizes Tex’s “can he be serious?” vocal style: a little growl, a throatful of twang, and a gulped-back tear or two help the troubadour get across the mixed emotions inherent in a lovelorn murder/suicide plot. Elsewhere, Tex suffers a Dr. Demento-worthy self-destruction on “L.S.D. Made a Wreck Outta Me.” Check it out soon if you run across it: Chronic out-of-print status is almost a badge of honor for an album this eccentric.
Terrell's Tune-Up: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of haplessness
By Steve Terrell / The New Mexican / Santa Fe--(11/22/2007)
One of the rough edges of country music that has been almost completely smoothed out by Nashville tastemakers in recent decades is the great tradition of hillbilly madness/murder songs. Sure, you can sing proudly about putting your boot in the orifices of approved enemies of the state, but you won't find the likes of Willie Nelson's "I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye" or even Marty Robbins' slightly milder "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" on today's safe and sanitized country radio.
The world of alternative country, of course, always has had an odd fascination with the dark side of country music.
But before anyone had ever heard the term "alt country," a band of misfits called T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole released Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill, consisting of honky-tonk tales of crime and psychosis. Originally released in 1989 on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label, it's been re-released recently by Saustex, based in Texas. The sound definitely is lo-fi — tinny even — but Pardon Me is a real kick.

To start with, the album contains some well-known classics of the sub-subgenre. There's the title song, which originally was recorded by Johnny Paycheck. Here the narrator calmly tells a barroom buddy that he's about to commit a crime of passion.
Edwards does a respectable take on the late Porter Wagoner's horror tale, "The Rubber Room." If there's an Out on Parole reunion, I suppose they could do "Committed to Parkview," an exploration of a similar theme penned by Johnny Cash and sung by Wagoner this year on his final album, Wagonmaster.
And Edwards does a pretty good version of "Psycho," which was written by the great blind bard Leon Payne (best known for writing Hank Williams' "Lost Highway"). A one-hit country wonder named Jack Kittel recorded perhaps the definitive version of this black-humor honky-tonker. Elvis Costello also recorded a version back in the '80s, though I first heard it done by ex-Angry Samoan Gregg Turner here in Santa Fe. The narrator is talking to his mother, talking about killing a couple, about his crazy dreams, and his doubts about his sanity. "I woke up in Johnny's room, mama/Standing right there by his bed/With my hands around his throat, mama/Wishing both of us were dead." But is his mother really listening?

Considering that Edwards doesn't have the voice of Johnny Paycheck, Porter Wagoner, or even Jack Kittel, the true gems of this album are the obscurities, oddities, and little-known novelty tunes. They include "The Girl on Death Row," written by none other than Lee Hazelwood (I don't think he ever sang this with Nancy Sinatra); "LSD Made a Wreck of Me," a cautionary drug tale ("I started using LSD, it gave me quite a kick/Better than booze and easy to use/But it made me mentally sick"); and "Dolores," a sad saga of a hapless serial killer who accidentally murders his own sweetheart. If only she'd listened to him and stayed inside!
The weirdest one here is "Strangler in the Night," which has lyrics allegedly written by Albert DeSalvo, believed by many to be "the Boston Strangler." When DeSalvo was in prison, a Cambridge record company actually released a spoken-word single with greasy '50s-style slow-dance rock (reportedly by a Boston band called The Bugs) behind someone with a good radio voice reciting DeSalvo's lyrics: "I don't know a woman/And yet I crave on/My mind tells my body/Don't just stand there, get one!" (You can find an MP3 of the original here: www.albert-desalvo-strangler-in-the-night-mp3-download.kohit .net/_/137387.)
My one complaint about Pardon Me is that the liner notes should be better. We should know more about Johnny Legend, who wrote the song "Smitty" (and also ballads about the Boston Strangler, the Black Dahlia killing, etc.), and about where these other songs came from. But even without satisfying your inquiring mind, these songs are a twisted delight.
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T.Tex Edwards and Out on Parole "Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill" (Saustex 2007)
Pure Murder!
This is a re-issue of the 1989 "cult classic" ( i.e not a lot of people bought it ), and if you appreciate some of the rather black humour, this may be worth investigating. Described as a collection of obscure C + W murder songs, the mood of the project is more than adequately conveyed by a random selection of the song titles viz "The girl on Death Row", "I'm gonna kill You", "Strangler in the Night", " You aint never gonna live to love Saturday Night Again"etc, and a quote from the press release "..14 tales about drinkin',cheatin', killin', and prison rendered in high Texas fashion for your listening enjoyment". Says it all really.Tex and his band deliver a suitably proficient, if at times shambolic, peformance throughout in what is essentially good time music for dope fuelled/drunken parties.By way of a bonus, the cd is almost worth purchasing for the cover, a wonderfully sleazy drawing by Austin artist Bob Frye.

Date review added: Monday, December 31, 2007
Reviewer: John Hinshelwood
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2008
T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole - "Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill" (Saustex 2007)
Thom "Tex" Edwards has led a storied career - drop in just about anywhere and you're going to find something interesting. His Dallas based punk band The Nervebreakers may have played the first punk show in Dallas in 1977. They opened for The Sex Pistols at The Longhorn Ballroom in 1978. The Nervebreakers also backed up Roky Erikson in 1979 at The Dallas Palladium. By the end of their run in 1981 they were considered the biggest band in Dallas. "Move It", a staple of Tex's SoCal based rockabilly outfit Loafin' Hyenas, was recorded by The LeRoi Brothers. Those are the high points. That's a pretty solid career right there for an underground musician. But after all this T. Tex, for all intents and purposes, went solo.
"Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill" was initially released in 1989 on Sympathy for the Record Industry and, after an all too brief flash as a "novelty record", slowly faded into obscurity. Hearing the remastered re-issue of this record (plus one unreleased track) is like a breath of fresh air for those that appreciate the below the radar, native Texan country music that displays an irreverent love of the genre.
This record is T. Tex paying a kind of twisted tribute to country songs about prison, murder and excess that span decades. Not that many of these songs need much more twisting. Most stick to traditional country arrangements and instrumentation, but that's by no means the whole story. You get Edward's take on The Bugs' 1964 freakshow "Strangler in the Night", which has lyrics penned by Albert DeSalvo, AKA The Boston Strangler. The version on this record far out does the original, with Edward's manic spoken word vocal over placid, almost Hawaiian music a paragon of sheer lunacy. Then you have the cover of Porter Wagoner's (remember him? He launched Dolly Parton's career) already exceedingly strange "Rubber Room" which, unlikely as it may seem, adds an endearingly psychotic charm to the song. Also standing out is Eddie Noack's "Dolores", bringing in a latin 8ths beat and a distinctively Western feel.
I could go on and on about the unique spins T. Tex Edwards puts on songs by everyone from Johnny Paycheck to Lee Hazlewood to Country Swing pioneer Howard Crockett, but it's better left for you to explore for yourselves. While this record is certainly de rigeur listening for late night booze and drug fueled parties, it's also a blast to listen to just about any other time. Fabulous Thunderbirds/LeRoi Bros. drummer Mike Buck's production does a wonderful job of conveying the sense that the wheels could fly off at any second while Edward's appealingly loose vocal melodies string things together. These guys clearly had a lot of fun making this record, and it's infectious.
In my research for this review I ran across quite a few write-ups decrying this record for treating what are essentially dark topics in a jocular and irreverent way. I couldn't disagree more. Poking fun at the darkness is one of the most positive ways we humans deal with the bad cards we get dealt and the insanity pervasive in the world around us. As many a Texan has been heard to say, "Gallows humor - without it we'd all lose our lunch."
T. Tex Edwards' stuff, along with much more, is available at http://www.saustexmedia.com/.
Rating: 4 out of 4
Posted by MiseryCreek at 9:04 AM
Labels: country music, johnny paycheck, lee hazlewood, nervebreakers, porter wagoner, saustex, t. tex edwards, texas music
from: il popolo del blues
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Marzo 2008
T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole – Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill
(Saustex Media) www.saustexmedia.com
T.Tex Edwards & Out On Parole are a cow-punk texas based band that released a new album titled Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill, like a John Paycheck song. This album features some cover songs and originals.
Stranissimo personaggio T.Rex Edwards, country man texano con trascorsi nel punk con i Nervebreakers a fine anni settanta e poi convertiosi prima al Rockabilly con i Loafin’ Hyenas negli anni ottanta e poi fondatore degli Out On Parole insieme ad altri due musicisti texani, ovvero Mike Buck e Joe Dickens. La band nacque con il chiaro intento di incidere un disco intero di murder country ballads, partendo dalla canzone Pardon Me, I’ve Got Some To Kill di John Paycheck. Dopo tante vicissitudini e tanti tentativi falliti, la band finalmente lo scorso anno è riuscita ad incidere e a completare il disco che si intitola proprio Pardon Me, I’ve Got Some To Kill e che contiene quattordici brani tra inediti e cover, tutte rilette strizzando l’occhio ora al psycho-country ora al cow-punk. Si tratta di canzoni di morte ma anche di amori finiti male, canzoni piene di brutalità ma allo stesso tempo travolgenti dal punto di vista musicale. T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole sfoggiano infatti un sound cattivo e ruvidissimo ma perfettamente funzionale al loro sound, tra i brani meglio riusciti meritano una citazione oltre alla title track, il classico di Leon Payne Psycho e la bellissima The Rubber Room di Porter Wagoner. Non male anche brani meno famosi come The Grill On Death Row di Lee Hazelwood , Smitty di John Legend e la conclusiva Last Will & Testimony di Hausay. Insomma, T. Tex e soci hanno messo insieme un bel disco, nulla di innovativo per carità ma senza dubbio suggestivo.
Salvatore Esposito
Salvatore Esposito (Campobasso, 1981)
Vive a Caserta e studia giurisprudenza. Da un anno collabora con la redazione di JAM e de "Il Popolo Del Blues". È il webmaster del Sito Italiano Di Neil Young (www.rockinfreeworld.tk) e ha curato insieme a Michele Murino per Editori Rinuiti la stesura del volume "Legends" su Bob Dylan. Sempre per Editori Riuniti ha collaborato al volume su Francesco De Gregori di Giammaria Monti.
Pol Dodu
Mareuil on Ay, France
Amateur music, Pol Dodu has offered a guitar for Christmas for 10 years. He quickly realized it would take nothing of this instrument and has refilé to his brother, which is now a heavy metal guitarist recognized. In addressing the discs, meeting artists and trying to share his enthusiasm that Pol Dodu live music. Lewis Furey, Elvis Costello, Devo, Jonathan Richman, Television Personalities, Creation Records and Giant Sand the passion in turn. With the liberalisation of the FM band in France in 1981, he has the chance to produce radio broadcasts on Radio Primitive in Reims, which he did for 15 years. In 1997, the fanzine Vivonzeureux! (pending death ...), it has created in addition to its issuance becomes a webzine. It includes a label and a truly virtual radio blog. When deciding to create a blog, Pol Dodu said he was just talking about his records would be an appropriate way of telling his life. That is what he is undertaking with Blogonzeureux! Its slices of life shaped washers to recordings are chroniquées. In 2008, Pol is also POLémiste.
Blogonzeureux!
Le blog de Vivonzeureux! : Des tranches de vie de Pol Dodu en forme de rondelles discographiques
08 NOVEMBRE 2005
T. TEX EDWARDS & OUT ON PAROLE : Pardon me, I've got someone to kill
Acquis chez New Rose à Paris vers 1991
Réf : ROSE 223 CD -- Edité par New Rose en France en 1990
Support : CD 12 cm 17 titres
Décidément, il semble que les disques de country que je préfère ne sont pas dûs à des spécialistes du genre. Non, je ne parle pas de "Almost blue" de Costello, le premier disque country que j'ai acheté, qui n'est vraiment pas une réussite. Je pense plutôt à "Jonathan goes country" de Jonathan Richman et à cet album.
Quand on l'a reçu en vinyl à sa sortie à La Radio Primitive, j'ai tout de suite craqué dessus. La pochette était drôle, et il y avait une version de "Psycho", la chanson de Leon Payne, dont je connaissais une version (bonne, pour le coup) par Costello.
T. Tex Edwards est un rocker, pas un pro de Nashville, qui a débuté dans les années 1970, et qui a sorti quasiment en même temps que celui-ci un autre album chez New Rose avec son groupe rock, les Laughin' Hyenas. Mais avec Out on Parole, il s'amuse à faire des reprises de country. Ils ont sorti quelques singles comme ça, et juste cet album. C'est quasiment un disque concept autour du meurtre et du dérangement mental. La série des cinq premières chansons est imbattable. Même pas besoin d'écouter le disque, il suffit de lire la liste des titres : "Je vais te descendre", "Le LSD m'a transformé en épave", le morceau-titre repris de Johny Paycheck "Excusez-moi, j'ai quelqu'un à aller tuer", "La fille dans le couloir de la mort" (écrit par Lee Hazelwood) et "Psycho".
Après, il y a une ou deux faiblesses dans le disque, mais aussi plein d'autres grands moments, comme "Dolores", le dérangé "Strangler in the night" ou "The rubber room" (repris de Porter Wagoner). Et sur ce CD il y a quatre titres en plus que sur l'édition vinyl, ce qui permet de s'éclater avec "Du sang sur la selle" et "Lee Harvey était un pote à moi" (!) de Homer Henderson.
Publié par Pol Dodu à l'adresse 22:55
Libellés : 1990s, cd, country
TRANSLATION:
Blogonzeureux!
The blog Vivonzeureux! : Slices of life Pol Dodu shaped washers to recordings
NOVEMBER 08, 2005
T. TEX & EDWARDS OUT ON PAROLE: Pardon me, I've got someone to kill
Acquired from New Rose in Paris around 1991
Ref: ROSE 223 CD - Published by New Rose in France in 1990
Format: CD 12 cm 17 tracks
Clearly, it appears that the discs country that I prefer are not due to specialists in the genre. No, I do not speak of "Almost Blue" Costello, the first record I bought that country, which is really not a success. I think rather to "Jonathan goes country" by Jonathan Richman and this album.
When we have received in vinyl at its output Primitive Radio, I immediately cracked. The kit was funny, and there was a version of "Psycho", the song of Leon Payne, whom I knew a (good for the coup) by Costello.
T. Tex Edwards is a rocker, not a pro Nashville, which began in the years 1970, and has released almost at the same time it another album at New Rose with his rock band, Laughin 'Hyenas. But with Out on Parole, he has fun making occasions country. They released some singles like that, and just this album.
It's almost a hard concept around the murder and mental derangement. The series of the first five songs is unbeatable. Even not need to listen to the disc, just read the list of titles: "I'll get off te", "The LSD has turned into wreckage," the song title taken from Johny Paycheck "Excuse me, I I have someone to go kill "," The girl in the corridor of death "(written by Lee Hazelwood) and" Psycho ".
Then there are one or two weaknesses in the disc, but also many other great moments, like "Dolores", the disturbed "Strangler in the night" or "The rubber room" (taken from Porter Wagoner). And on this CD there are four titles in more than on the vinyl edition, which allows for fun with "blood on the saddle" and "Lee Harvey was a friend to me" (!) By Homer Henderson.
Published by Pol Dodu at 22:55
Labels: 1990s, cd, country
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Poiltics EP 1978 Wild Child (WC-101) It's Politics/My Life Is Ruined b/w I Can't Help You/My Girlfriend Is A Rock The Nervebreakers +++
Hijack The Radio / Why Am I So Flipped? 45 1979 Wild Child (WC-103) The Nervebreakers +++
Are We Too Late For The Trend... (various artists) ESR (ESR/LP1) " I Love Your Neurosis " The Nervebreakers +++
Girls & Boys 45 1980 Wild Child GirlsGirlsGirlsGirlsGirls/I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys on blue vinyl The Nervebreakers +++
Steel Rok Presents (various artists) Cassette SteelRok 3 songs Tex & The Saddletramps+++
12X12, Volume 2 (various artists) Together (CCS-32486) "My LIfe Is Ruined" FTM+++
We Want Everything LP Existential Vacuum (EV 08) The Nervebreakers +++
We Almost Really Care 45 Sympathy Scatter / Move It The Loafin Hyenas +++
Forbidden See EP Sympathy (sftri36) Boot In The Toilet/Scratchin' Fleas/Forbidden See The Loafin Hyenas +++
Smitty EP 1989 Sympathy Smitty b/w Saturday Night/The Rubber Room T.Tex & Out On Parole+++
Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill LP 1989 Sympathy (sf tri 43) / New Rose (france) LP/ CD (ROSE 223) T Tex Edwards & Out On Parole +++
The Loafin Hyenas LP 1990 New Rose (france) The Loafin Hyenas +++
The Loafin Hyenas CD 1990 New Rose (france) extended " What Goes On " on CD only The Loafin Hyenas +++
Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine 45 Sympathy (sftri55) Lee Harvey / It's Gravity T.Tex & The Sickoids / T.Tex & Big D Ramblers +++
Live From A Dive EP 1991 Sympathy Strange Movies / Love Power T. Tex Edwards & Lithium X-Mas +++
Over-Dose Presents - The Loafin' Hyenas CD 1993 Century (japan) (CECC-00545) The Loafin' Hyenas CD with different cover +++
Don't Mess With Austin (appears on) CD New Rose (france) 1993 " Psycho " Various +++
Jekyll and Hyde 45 Honey (103) Jekyll and Hyde/Man From Mars T. Tex & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers +++
Fireworks with T. Tex Edwards 45 1994 Honey (105) A Man Is A Slave/Dark Angel +++
Only Bowie (various artists) CD Only Boy (OB 9502) " Black Country Rock " +++
Live At The Barley House (various artists) CD T. Tex & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers +++
T. Tex Edwards $ DisGraceland 45 1996 Living Records Monkey See, Monkey Do / Predictable +++
Up Against The Floor CD 1998 Honey (CD04) T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers +++
Intexicated Tape 1999 Tex-Cass-01 18 songs Limited to 50 / 60 min. cassette +++
New Rose Story (various artists) CD 2000 includes songs by Out on Parole The Loafin Hyenas +++
We Want Everything CD Get Hip (GH 1032CD) The Nervebreakers +++
Texotica vol 1 (various artists) CD 2003 Gravid (2K3) " Take Me To Tahiti " +++
Root Damage (various artists) CD Sympathy (sftri 13) "You Ain't Never Gonna Live To Love Saturday Night Again" +++
Hijack The Radio LP Rave Up (italy) (rave up0015) 1 side studio / 1 side live The Nervebreakers ++++
Happy Hour-Drinkin', Cheatin', & Killin' Tape 2004 Tex-Cass 19 songs live at the continental club
I Hate the Nervebreakers-2009 Sampler 6-song CD The Nervebreakers....
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"Young George" - Out On Parole with T. Tex Edwards
Live at Owl Tree party in Austin 3/20/09 (video by Bar-B-Q Bob Childress)

THE NERVEBREAKERS

Nervebreakers are a late seventies / early eighties Texas punk band considered by many to be the first of their kind in the southwest. Like many others of this genre, they started out as a high school garage band doing sixties / early seventies cover songs. What made them unique was their range of material; from the music of the English Invasion to Yummy Yummy bubble gum as well as songs from punk pioneers MC-5 to true blue country artists like George Jones.

The array of influence from all those cover songs melded into a two guitar, bass and drum sonic assault with a wild child vocalist up front. The members of the band began writing some of their own songs. All aspects were in place and the band was primed when the punk movement broke in the mid-seventies.

On July 24, 1977 the Ramones first blitzkrieged Dallas at The Electric Ballroom, Nervebreakers opened. In 1978 the Sex Pistols set out to swindle America but it was Nervebreakers who stole the show at The Longhorn Ballroom. In 1979 when the Clash were calling here at Dallas’ Palladium, Nervebreakers let them know they weren’t in London anymore. By 1980 when the Police came to town, they were Nervebreakers fans due to Random Notes in Rolling Stone. The list reads on and on in NME, Melody Maker and High Times. Like a who’s who of punk rock history, our guys held their own as the Texas band to see.

Nervebreakers weren’t just playing, they were the real deal. Home grown - born and raised. Texas proud and ready to kill. They introduced punk rock with a bit of a ‘twang’ to the world and recorded it for all to hear.

In the pre - D.I.Y. days of 1978 they self-released the EP “Politics” featuring “My Girlfriend is a Rock”. ”Girlfriend” became a hit in San Francisco, Sacramento and Boston and was later covered by the Angry Samoans and Wool - among others. This song (and the US invasion of Iraq) inspired sixteen year old punk upstarts, Spector 45, to put their spin on the song as “My Girlfriend’s in Iraq” in 2003.

Other 7 inch gems that followed include “Hijack the Radio” b/w “Why Am I So Flipped” The black and blue vinyl “Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls” b/w a cover of the obscure Rolling Stones song “I’d much Rather be with the Boys”. The band also contributed two songs “So Sorry” (as the Barry Kooda Combo) and “I Love Your Neurosis” to the local punk rock compilation “Are We Too Late for the Trend” put out by ESR. Other acts featured on this late seventies Dallas area time capsule include the Telefones, The Vomit Pigs, The Skuds and Superman’s Girlfriend.

Despite being recognized as the biggest and baddest of them all locally, they were also huge fans of Texas predecessors such as the 13th Floor Elevators. This eventually led to the band contacting Psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erickson. Roky had just walked out of a mental institution so they offered to open shows for him and provide the legendary musician with a backup group. The result helped Roky back in the public eye. And “Roky Erickson and the Nervebreakers Live at the Palladium in 1979” was issued on the French label New Rose Records.

In 1980 Nervebreakers took on their biggest endeavor yet, recording the full length album “We Want Everything”. Sadly due to band finances this effort was not to be released. Side projects and individual interest whittled away at the band until an eventual demise. Each and every off shoot of the band has been and continues to be incredible. Vocalist Thom "Tex" Edwards has fronted bands including “The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers”, “The Loafin ' Hyenas” and most recently “Out on Parole”. Lead guitarist, Mike Haskins, has led the instrumental spaghetti western band “The Big Guns” for the last decade. And guitarist Barry Kooda had a great run with late 80's band “Yeah Yeah Yeah” and as one of three front men in the 1990's country outfit “The Cartwrights”. But those are all other long stories so for now let’s just stick with Nervebreakers.

“We Want Everything” did not see the light of day until 1994 when Texas rarities / reissue label ‘Existential Vacuum’ released it to rave reviews. This was followed by a single reuniting of the band for a release party at Trees in Deep Ellum. Shortly thereafter this effort was picked up by garage / punk label ‘Get Hip Records’ and made available worldwide. In 2000 Italian label “Rave Up Records” woke up and released “Hijack the Radio” a collection of singles, rarities and live cuts. Years after they laid the groundwork for thousands of other Texas bands, Nervebreakers were finally getting their due.

Which brings us, folks; to 2009. After serving your punk rock needs for over thirty years the Nervebreakers have reunited. All five core members have returned including vocalist Thomas "T. TEX" Edwards, lead guitarist Mike Haskins, rhythm guitarist Barry "KOODA" Huebner, Bob "WILDMAN" Childress on bass and drummer Carl Edmund Giesecke.. An anthology "Why Am I So Flipped?” of previously unreleased songs has been assembled and a brand new effort of never recorded before material entitled “Face Up to Reality” has been taken into the studio and captured as well.

Why now? Unlike most of their contemporaries they are all still alive. So there is an opportunity to re-emerge. The roots of the band and the music have finally brought things full circle. Prepare yourself because the best is yet to come. -Frank Campagna, Dallas, 2009

For the first time in 15 years, the Nervebreakers will perform live in Dallas, at Club Dada on Saturday, April 11th. Doors will open at 8:00 for a punk rock meet and greet happy hour kind of thing. Deejay Mr Rid (Mark Ridlen) will be spinning tunes. The first band, Sparrowbox, will go on at 9:30, Spector 45 at 10:30 and Nervebreakers at 11:30.

Nervebreakers
"Hijack the Radio! - Lost American Punk Rock Nuggets Volume 15"
(Rave Up Records LP)

I see that Rave Up has worked their magic and I see that Rave Up's re-issue has some stuff I had yet to hear from the Nervebreakers.... Wow, after one listen I see now why The Nervebreakers hold the place that they do with so many re-punk connoisseurs.

The LP starts off with a signature hit of theirs that I had only heard mentioned in liner notes before now called "Hijack the Radio" then took me through track after track of impressive Texas punk. "I'm So Flipped", "My Life is Ruined"... The intense "I Love Your Neurosis"...

On side two, a live show from a Dallas venue called DJ's New Wave Cafe of decent quality and featuring some songs I am more familiar with like "I've Got A Problem", and "Strange Movie", but the tune that really gets me is the last track, "I Wanna Kill You". It has a quirky "unnatural ax creeper" feel to it. As the lyrics are sang and the song progresses, I believe the words I hear from "Tex's" mouth!

All in all, looking in retrospect, Rave Up had a shaky beginning with many of its earlier releases being hit and miss, love'em or leave'em, but here lately they have really bucked up and been putting out some very impressive releases. Maybe it's because they seemed to have been dipping into the Texas pot a bit more... Whatever, as far as I'm concerned keep it up, loving every minute. (SAB)
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CHRONIQUES
DIG IT 23
THE NERVEBREAKERS
Hijack The Radio!
Rave Up
Le volume 15 de la série “American Lost Punk Rock Nuggets” engendrée par le label romain Rave Up Rds est consacré, après les Testors, Dogs et autres Features, aux rois de la scène underground texanne de la fin des seventies, les fantastiques Nervebreakers.

Formés en 73 à Dallas, ils ont écumé le nord du Texas, tourné sur la côte Ouest, ouvert pour les Ramones, les Pistols ou Clash, ne laissant à la postérité qu’une discographie ténue : un EP quatre titres, Politics, deux 45t et un album en 80, We Want Everything (réédité il y a quelques années par Get Hip). Haut fait de gloire : ils ont été l’un des backing bands de Roky Erikson (un album live sur New Rose enregistré à Dallas en 79). Leur leader, Thom “Tex” Edwards poursuivra une carrière chaotique, enregistrant avec les Out On Parole (l’indispensable album de reprises country délinguées, Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill encore sur New Rose en 89), les Loafin’ Hyenas (de la country plus venimeuse, un album, toujours sur New Rose, en 90), et d’autres ramassis d’allumés comme The Toe Tags ou The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers (!), apparaissant aussi en guest sur des singles des Fireworks ou Lithium X-Mas.

Avec les Nervebreakers, T. Tex Edwards ne se prenait pas encore pour un Hank Williams sous acide, et ses cow-boys jouaient un cocktail déjà bien corrosif de garage et de punk séminal. La face studio de la compil rassemble le premier 45t (“Hijack The Radio!” un tube jubilatoire à la Wayne County, et “Why Am I So Flipped ?” qui rappelle les Samoans), deux extraits de Politics (un autre tube “My Girlfriend Is A Rock”, repris plus tard par Metal Mike, et l’étonnant “My Life Is Ruined”, complainte country tex-mex virant New York Dolls) ainsi que deux inédits enregistrés en 77, dont “I Love Your Neurosis”, garage rock mélodique à la Slickee Boys. L’autre face est live, sept morceaux pêchus enregistrés à Dallas en 80, parmi lesquels deux reprises (“Steppin’ Stone”, “Strange Movies” des Troggs) et d’autres tubes (“What Do You Want From Me ?” ou le teigneux “I’ve Got A Problem”). Hautement recommandé, et complément idéal à l’album Get Hip.

Aux dernières nouvelles, T. Tex Edwards enregistre toujours pour des labels sans doute locaux, comme Honey ou TexHex. Il bosse au Continental Club d’Austin, et s’y produit tous les lundis, de 18h30 à 21h, pendant l’happy hour. Ambiance garantie ! (Rave Up Rds, Via Montecuccoli 13, 00176, Rome, Italie -- http://web.tiscalinet.it/raveup
-- Nervebreakers : www.ussrlabs.com/index.htm)

TRANSLATION?:
The volume 15 of the series "Lost American Punk Rock Nuggets" generated by the label Roman Rave Up Rds is devoted, after the Testors, Dogs and Other Features, the kings of the underground scene texanne the late seventies, Nervebreakers fantastic.

Trained in 73 in Dallas, they foamed northern Texas, toured the West Coast, opened for the Ramones, Pistols or Clash, leaving to posterity a fine discography: an EP four titles, Politics, two 45t and an album in 80, We Want Everything (reissued a few years ago by Get Hip). Top result of glory: they were one of the backing bands of Roky Erikson (a live album recorded on New Rose in Dallas to 79). Their leader, Thom "Tex" Edwards pursue a career chaotic, with the recording Out On Parole (the indispensable country album occasions délinguées, Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill still on New Rose 89), Loafin ' Hyenas (of the country more venomous, an album, always on New Rose, 90), and other collection of illuminated like The Toe Tags and The Swingin 'Cornflake Killers (!), Also appearing in guest on the singles Fireworks or Lithium X-Mas.

With the Nervebreakers, T. Tex Edwards did not yet taken for a Hank Williams in acid, and his cowboys were already well corrosive cocktail of garage and seminal punk. The face of the studio compilation brings together the first 45t ( "Hijack The Radio!" A jubilant tube to the Wayne County, and "Why I Am So Flipped?" Which recalls the Samoans), two excerpts from Politics (another tube "My Girlfriend Is a Rock ", reprinted later by Metal Mike, and the amazing" My Life Is Ruined, "complainte country tex-mex turning New York Dolls) and two new registered 77, whose" I Love Your Neurosis " melodic garage rock the Slickee Boys. The other side is live, seven pieces pêchus recorded in Dallas in 80, including two occasions ( "Steppin 'Stone", "Strange Movies" Troggs) and other tubes ( "What Do You Want From Me?" Or the teigneux "I've Got a Problem"). Highly recommended, and ideal complement to the album Get Hip.

For the latest news, T. Tex Edwards recorded for labels always doubtless premises, as Honey or TexHex. It bump the Continental Club in Austin, and it produces every Monday, from 18:30 to 21h during happy hour. Ambiance guarantee!
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Randy Reeves Review in THE NEXT BIG THING-

T. Tex Edwards?... yeah, pass me that bottle and I’ll tell you what I know about Tex. Tex Edwards, native son of Dallas, is definitely one of the few cut from the cloth of the old Dallas. Jack Ruby’s Dallas, Candy Barr’s Dallas-seedy dives, strip clubs...though still probably still in diapers when the afore mentioned Miss Barr had to trade in her mink for prison fatigues in ‘58, Tex has one of those timeless faces and a rich, breathy country baritone, the likes of which are all too rare these days. A little unsavory too. Tex fronted the Nervebreakers in the mid / late 70’s, a local group of some repute who released one EP and two 45’s. He went on to form Tex and the Saddle tramps and then Out On Parole in 1984. Unfortunately no records have surfaced since the Nervebreakers, but there exist some amazing tapes which hopefully will vinyalize one day. One song that stands out is a novelty type George Jones, a man Tex thinks a lot of, (It’s the tune of Who Shot Sam? a song the Skeletons used to do.) Another is Ernest Tubb’s “I Need Attention Bad” Ernest Tubb makes Tex feel happy. My personal favorite is a version of “Move It” , also recently covered by the Leroi Brothers. A screaming, shuttering classic. I’m afraid that when this brand of booze soaked country music hits home, it means you’re on the way down, down, down, my friend. Well this music must be the bottom, and it all sounds mighty fine. RANDY REEVES '86

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T. TEX EDWARDS AND OUT ON PAROLE "Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill" Sympathy For The Record Industry SFTHI 43 Import

TEX EDWARDS - a native Texan as his name suggests - has evolved from being a Punk Rocker with his band The Nervebreakers in the late '70s to a rabid Rockabilly rebel with The Loafin’ Hyenas in the late '80s (an outfit who have also had their howlings released on the Sympathy label). For his first solo LP, however, Tex has decided to try his hand at Psycho- Country, covering the songs of previous masters of the genre together with the brilliant Out On Parole as, his backing band.

It's the jugular that Tex is aiming for with this record as he gleefully sinks his teeth into 13 tales of murder and love gone bad. With the coyote croon of Out On Parole behind him it would be easy to accuse Tex of putting his listeners on with a record that brings together a selection of Country music' bleakest moments. The trouble is that 'Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill is too sincere in it playing to be just some kind of a gag.

Tex Rocks, moan and hallucinates his way into your heart with a sound that's as big as the great outdoors. It's a record that night remind you of those compilation bootlegs popular a few moons back purportedly assembled by Mr. Lus Whatisname. Only in this case the obscurities are sung by Tex, a Vegas lounge lizard with an all-zombie band. A few of the tunes might sound familiar from recent Beasts Of Burbon / Panther Burns exhumations, but for the most part you’ll need reafer once again to KICKS and BAD SEED magazines for info on the likes of (F'instance) “Smitty”, about a 60’s multi- murderer Chuck Schmid. refreshingly low-key and heavy-lidded C&W vitrol in the era of overdramatic mock rock posturing, with drummer Mike Buck also countin’ time as a Leroi Brother and vocalist Tex seething darker / harder in The Loafin’ Hyenas, alongside Blood On The Saddle stalwart H. Senac, also of LAs ship hipslingers Crowbar Salvation & one-time Cramp Click Mort. Check it out.....
--Kid Karrion (RAW 43)

gullbuy New Sound Review:
New Rose Story 1980 - 2000
various artists/ label:: Last Call / format:: 4xCD
T. Tex Edwards & Out on Parole uses the amplifier's tremolo setting to give his guitar a deep twang on the country-ish The Girl On Death Row. Like many of the best songs in this box set, this one makes my faves list because of the lyrics, and the story they tell.

from THAT OTHER PAPER/AUSTIN, TEXAS
The perfect show: T. Tex Edwards and the Out on Parole Band at Hole in the Wall
17 MARCH 2008 | KELLY HANDRAN

T. Tex Edwards and the Out on Parole Band Wednesday, March 12 | Hole in the Wall

I’m in my mid-40s, and I’ve seen just about all the bands I want to see. But I have to admit, even with my jaded sensibilities, that I experienced a humdinger of a musical event last Wednesday evening at Hole in the Wall for the performance of T. Tex Edwards and the Out on Parole Band.

What I’m still wheeling over today is: It was a free show with free parking, it wasn’t crowded, not a scenester was in sight, the show started at 7pm, and there was a free 7” record hand-out. All of this was icing on the cake for me, someone with a 9-to-5. It was a storm of convenience and great talent.

Texas’ legendary cow-punk T. Tex Edwards performed the hell out of a set of tunes from his classic release of psycho murdering country hits, the Pardon Me, I have someone to Kill LP released in 1989 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. This seminal group of honky-tonk punkers relived and revitalized every track of this album — and in case you missed these renditions live or if you’re a “newbie” fan, you’re in luck because it’s being reissued for release via the Saustex Label.

T. Tex is the real deal — this marvelous music lifted my soul to a higher place.

THE MET
Dallas, Texas (1995)

I have to admit that the first time I saw Thom "Tex" Edwards perform with his band, Tex and the Swingin'Comflake Killers, he was a bit frightening. Perhaps it was the. Hawaiian print, one- size-too-small tuxedo jacket paired with the "well, it sed to be a cowboy hat" thing on' his head, or the fact that he looked as though he had combed his hair with a pillow to achieve that Sid-Vicious- on-a-bad-day look. But in all probability, it was the way he swaggered about on-stage, beer in hand, glaring viciously at the unsuspecting masses while spitting out songs about kllin', lovin', and how women just ain't no good fer a man like him.

But to meet the man behind the mask of intoxication is a whole other story. Not only does his fearful demeanor evaporate, but he comes across as someone you might want to be standing on your stoop saying, I am here to pick up your daughter, Mrs. Cleaver. This might sound a bit mundane for a guy infamous for his 1989 "Pardon Me, I’ve Got Somone to Kill" (which came out on the Sympathy For the Record Industry label in the United States, and New Rose in Europe) But, in fact, Tex is a rather soft-spoken man with plenty of insight and a clear idea of what makes him happy, which happens to be getting up onstage and doing his thing, tending to his garden, or just hanging out with his dogs.

" The album (Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill) went over well," says Edwards, "Except I continually receive flack from people who didn't get the joke. It was fun, but once you get identified with one thing, you kinda start to think aout changing. Change is what Edwards has made career of, starting with his stint in the nationally acclaimed punk band The Nervebreakers back in '75. During the final years of that band, Edwards began moving into the rockabilly scene with Tex and the Saddletramps, a side project that later blossomed into a full-time deal. He moved to Austin and then on to Los Angeles in.1986, but returned to Dallas in 1990 after one too many run-ins with rock and roll decadence.

He's remained a fixture on the local stages and behind the bar at Naomi's (on the day shift) ever since... He also sees his view of music changing as well, but assures his following that, "We'll still do the dark stuff"... And while this record may not dispel Edwards reputation as being, in his own words, "kinda twisted,"his friends are the first ones to buoy him up with praise. Hillbilly crooner Donnie Ray Ford of Liberty Valance and The Cartwrights calls him one of the most entertainin' sons of bitches I've ever seen," whereas Comflake Kim Herriage just explains, "He's a bit scary when you first meet him, but he's really the sweetest guy. Well, the sweetest guy who happens to look like a serial killer." - lisa landeck - THE MET -12-8-94

T TEX EDWARDS & OUT ON PAROLE
'PARDON ME, I’VE GOT SOMEONE TO KILL'
T TEX EDWARDS & THE SWINGING KORNFLAKE KILLERS
'UP AGAINST THE FLOOR'
(Saustex /Honey)

Back when Don McLeese was Music Editor of the Austin American-Statesman, he once accused me, as a typical European, of only liking unpolished music, which I pretty much accepted, indeed took as a compliment. However, there was a time in the late 80s/early 90s when many Austinites seemed to have a taste for raw meat, turning out in fair numbers for Tex Thomas & The Danglin’ Wranglers at Hut’s, Calvin Russell & The Characters at Poodie’s Red River Saloon and T Tex Edwards & Out On Parole at The Continental Club. I wouldn’t want to live on the fractional difference between the ragged ferocity of their performances back then, punks were pussies compared to these guys.

The reissue of Pardon Me features a bonus, Howard Crockett’s Last Will & Testimony (Of A Drinkin’ Man), which fits in well with the original collection of very (very) twisted songs, mostly country and mostly concerned with murder, culled from drummer Mike Buck’s legendary record collection; Wynn Stewart’s I’m Gonna Kill You, Rudi Protrudi’s LSD Made A Wreck Out Of Me, Johnny Paycheck’s title track, Leon Payne’s Psycho, cult Oklahoma weirdo Rev Otis Moon’s You Ain’t Gonna Live To Love Saturday Night Again, Johnny Legend’s Smitty (about serial killer Chuck Schmid), Porter Wagoner’s The Cold Hard Facts Of Life and The Rubber Room, Eddie Noack’s Dolores, The Travelin’ Texans’ Beatin’ On The Bars, Bugs’ Strangler In The Night and Leon Bass’ Country Hixes. This is a set list that demands a certain amount of bad attitude, I mean, can you imagine Don Walser singing any of these? While I wouldn’t go as far as describing Edwards, tellingly from Fort Worth rather than Austin, as the kind of man who, like Paycheck, looks like he’d shoot you in a bar, he’s for sure edgy enough to carry this stuff.

Rather oddly, I came across two review of the original release (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 1989), one of which complained that Edwards played it for laughs, the other that it was too serious. Personally, I’d split the difference and say he, with Buck, Joe Dickens, Marty Muse, JJ Barrera, John Reed and Howard Kalish, gets it just about right.

The more rockabilly-ish Up Against The Floor is a relaunch, Saustex having acquired the stock of the original 1998 release, on the ineffectual Dallas-based Honey, and, while not live, is a fairly faithful souvenir of Edwards’ raucous 90s act, again ripe with attitude. Some of the material is original, usually involving guitarist Tom Battles, interspersed with covers of Wanda Jackson’s Funnel Of Love, Hank Thompson’s One Helluva Weekend, Conway Twitty’s Lonely Blue Boy, Lefty Frizzell’s How Far Down Can I Go?, Lloyd McCollough’s Gonna Love My Baby Now, Gary Stewart’s Whiskey Trip, David Bowie’s Black Country Rock and Floyd Cramer’s Last Date. -JOHN CONQUEST (Third Coast Magazine Nov-07)

Album Review-UP AGAINST THE FLOOR
T. Tex Edwards plays a sort of muted, grungy cowpunk psychobilly on Up Against the Floor. Though there are plenty of influences from hillbilly, rockabilly, Tex-Mex, and punk in the mix, it's not as avowedly strange and wild as much such stuff in this genre. It's eccentric, but not quite novelty fare. It's got a love for trashy lowlife, but it's not too in-your-face about it. Because it's not either overtly humorous or all that serious, it inhabits a somewhat uncomfortable fence between those mindsets. This kind of material usually lends itself to at least some outrageousness in the vocal department, but Edwards' vocals are too tentative and mumbly to make the most of that potential. His love of the source music for his brand of twisted roots rock is evident in the varied and sometimes surprising classics he selects to cover, including Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love," Conway Twitty's "Lonely Blue Boy," Floyd Cramer's "Last Date," and David Bowie's "Black Country Rock".
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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LOAFIN' HYENAS- "Loafin' Hyenas" (New Rose, 1990)

Chitarrista dei Cramps (Click Mort), bassista dei Gun Club (il compianto Rob Ritter, anche nei 45 Graves), un cantante country (T. Tex Edwards): sommati i tre fattori, il risultato sarà niente di più e niente di meno che l'omonimo full lenght dei Loafin' Hyenas, piccolo capolavoro di country-blues in salsa punk. Spettacolare.
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TRANSLATION?:
Sunday, December 24, 2006
LOAFIN 'HYENAS- "Loafin 'Hyenas"
(New Rose, 1990)

Guitarist of the Cramps (Click Mort), bassist of the Gun Club (the late Rob Ritter, also in 45 Graves), a country singer (T. Tex Edwards): added the three factors, the result is nothing more and nothing less than the full length of the same name Loafin 'Hyenas, a small masterpiece of country-blues in salsa punk. Spectacular.
written by Fleshworld the 00:59

Jan 24, 2008 2:02 PM from: JOHN BATTLES
Subject: Loafin' Hyenas - Band of The Week.
Body: Hidy - Hi , there , friends and neighbors. I mean to tell you about a band that should have been legendary , but were immersed in an all time musical decline , even for a city , so accurately described , by Vincent Price , as "A TOUR THROUGH A SEWER IN A GLASS BOTTOM BOAT" .....Now some people look back fondly on mid to late 80's Los Angeles , presumably people too young to remember the last previous couple hunnert incarnations of Heavy Metal . Yes , the gentrification process , disguised as sleaze , but , in reality, cheese , left little room for originality or creativity .... All those naughty little Garage , Rockabilly , and even Punk , bands were finding it increasingly difficult to get gigs in LA , unless they turned up at the cleansing centers with the "E Chord" tattooed on their arm , and enough Aqua Net to put Michael Monroe in a Coma (OK , SOME OF THOSE BANDS WERE ABUSING HAIRSPRAY , TOO.....) , and were soon swept away , for the most part , in favor of bands that threw the word "Glam" around like they owned it , but could not fathom the balls - out Rock'n'Roll sounds that made Slade , Sweet , Mott , T-Rex , Suzi , Alice , The Dolls , and even Gary Glitter so great in the first place . I'll never forget when I saw The late Rob Tyner give a talk in 1988 , and some kid asked him , "But , Don't you think bands like Guns'n'Roses are doing something that has'nt been done in a long time? " ....."NO! THOSE BANDS WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT THE CORPSE OF OLD ROCK'N'ROLL TO FEED ON!!!".
ASK ME TO TAKE IT TO A HIGHER COURT ? I JUST DID.

The Loafin' Hyenas emerged out of a Los Angeles caught in a whirlpool cesspool of hard drugs and far less hard rockin' sounds (Leadbelly did'nt have a Marshall Stack , but he' ll ALWAYS be harder that 80's Metal.)....Putting together a strange , murky , though thoroughably enjoyable concoction of Blues , Garage , Rockabilly and even fiddle - fueled Traditional Country (Long before the incredibly depressing "No Depression " trend had people here in the Chicago trying to dress like the same people that would've beat the shit out of them in Texas , or even at the former Main Street Pub , now The Double Door.) , it evoked , at times , The Cramps (Guitarist , Click Mort was briefly in The Cramps. Supposedly , he'd never played , prior to that , but , he's rippin' it up , ret ' chere.) , a more coherent Beasts of Bourbon, and , not surprisingly , The Gun Club. Bassist , Rob Ritter , had previously played in The Gun Club. He did not live to see the release of The Hyaenas' debut LP , sadly. Drummer Hermann Senacc , late of Blood on The Saddle , rounded things out , making this a "Supergroup" of sorts , if one more concerned with conveying a sense of urgency , and even humor , than displaying "Their chops"....
The band's "Secret Weapon" was the warped and wonderful vocal stylings of Mr. T. Tex Edwards , former (And present day!!) lead singer with Dallas Punk legends , The Nervebreakers. By this point in time , Edwards was getting more and more into a "Country" thing , but , a TWISTED Country thing. While not a particularly violent person , Tex can deliver a song with more menace than previously thought possible......Living so close to Arthur Brown and Roky Erickson did NOT hurt his delivery a - tall. He went on to record many "Murder Country " classics and originals, again , before the Insurgent Country (Which is neither) movement picked up on what he'd long since raised the bar on.....
The band only existed from 1987 to 1990....They put out one of the earliest 45s on the legendary Sympathy label (As well as an EP.) , And their excellent , though posthumous , LP came out on New Rose (But , we won't go there.). On their Myspace , you can hear several real gems from said LP release. They've stated that there's not much interest in the band , at this point in time , though Texas Terri covered their original killer , "If Looks Could Kill (I'd Give You a Second Glance."). A REISSUE , IF AT ALL A POSSIBILITY , IS IN ORDER. Thank you for your indulgence , Now, Go!!!!

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Lithium X-Mas with T. Tex Edwards - Strange Movies/Love Power (SFTRI 136, 1991)

If you think that Jthe Jodie Cosmo single was strange, you got to listen to this: Recorded live Feb 3 1991 at the Texas Tube Room, Ft Worth, Texas, Tex Edwards joins Lithium X-Mas A-side is a Troggs cover (VERY noisy), while b-side is a superb cover of the Mel Brooks tune (from Vertigo I think), given the famous Tex Edwards treat. Who am I?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cu_CRLXu4U

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BUY THEM HEREhttp://www.saustexmedia.com/untitled1.htmlT. TEX EDWARDS & OUT ON PAROLE"PARDON ME, I'VE GOT SOMEONE TO KILL" (SEX 0701) is a collection of obscure C & W murder songs rendered in Edward...
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Discography of Texas Punk 1977-1983(Paul Routenburg and Henry Weld)

The fullness of time brought a mostly killer compilation called Bloodstains Across Texas which opened my eyes wide to the truth of Coley's statement. Since 1983 when I got my International Discography...
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Nervebreakers (the band) on Twitter

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From Red Neckerson"s Radio Roundup Blog: T Tex's Hexes

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Hey Kiddies: Rock'n Roll History 101 (Required Reading)

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i94bar Review- I HATE THE NERVEBREAKERS

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Gun Club '82 from GARAGELAND blog

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Teabagged - Grumpy Owl Blog

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