#t. tex edwards & the swingin' cornflake killers

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Those sure were fun times at Naomi’s Lounge. I think it was 1993 & 94?  It was like the early punkrock days in the late 70s when DJs started booking punk. Finally we had a club, & a scene coalesced. A loosely based cowpunk (or whatever you want to call it) scene thrived for awhile at Naomi's. The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers, Old 97s, Homer Henderson’s One Man Band, & more, adopted a dive bar with cheap beers on the outskirts of Deep Ellum & played for appreciative crowds on a regular basis. 

The groundwork had been laid at The Barley House, up on Henderson, in the years before. But the Barley was too nice inside & attracted too many yuppies & SMU types. But Richard Winfield tried his best, booking cool bands & even releasing a ‘Live At The Barley House’ CD. 

But at Naomi’s, in a dilapidated building on the edge of Deep Ellum on Canton Street, we found a home. I can still see the proprietor, ‘ol Carroll Collyer, wading through the crowd with his old tip-bucket announcing “Give it up, it’s Robert Tilton time. Y’all gotta come up with some money for these boys entertainin’ ya.”

But Carroll is long gone & so is Tom Battles, the Swingin' Cornflake Killers' guitarist, who put this flyer together. So RIP Carroll, Tom, Homer, & Naomi's Lounge. Thanks to Sean Bailey for sharing this image. This sure brought back great memories.

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"Ten Horned Devil" & "Smitty" - T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin' Cornflake Killers (featuring Tom Battles (RIP) on guitar, Paul Orr on bass & David Lee (RIP) on drums) live at Tree’s in Dallas.

Video by Jeffrey Liles.

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Cravin' · T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARW3a5FWxSw)

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AUDIO: Man From Mars - T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers

Man From Mars (Butch Paulson) T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers

Bass – Paul Orr Cover – John S. Hancock* Drums – David Lee (28) Engineer – Mike Haskins* Guitar – Tom Battles Guitar [Outer Space Guitar] – Phil “Homer” Bennison* Lead Vocals – T. Tex Edwards Photography By – Clinton Bell

https://www.discogs.com/T-Tex-Edwards-The-Swingin-Cornflake-Killers-Jekyll-Hyde/release/1539145

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AUDIO: Jekyll & Hyde - T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers

Jekyll & Hyde (Jim Burgett) T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers

Backing Vocals – Cricket Taylor* Bass – Paul Orr Cover – John S. Hancock* Drums – David Lee (28) Engineer – Mike Haskins* Guitar – Tom Battles Lead Vocals – T. Tex Edwards

https://www.discogs.com/T-Tex-Edwards-The-Swingin-Cornflake-Killers-Jekyll-Hyde/release/1539145

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7/16/92: The well-worn joint is rarely crowded, yet it charges only $1.50 for a Budweiser and 50 cents for a game of pool. There's Hank and Lefty and Bob Wills on the jukebox and old-fashioned booths where you can slink down, enjoy your brew and laugh at all that commotion going on just a few blocks away.We've tried to keep Naomi's (3001 Canton) a secret, but it looks like the word's going to get out anyway, because owner Carrol Collyer has started to book bands in his beer garden.The first one will be Tex Edwards and the Swingin' Cornflake Killers, whose odes to whiskey, wimmen and psychopaths get things going this Saturday around 9 p.m. You might want to come a little early to see what the place was like before it was "discovered.' There's no cover charge. -- Michael Corcoran/Dallas Morning News

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Listen/purchase: 

Cravin' by T. Tex Edwards & The Swingin' Cornflake Killers

We, that is me, one T. Tex Edwards, plus The Swingin' Cornflake Killers, who at that time were comprised of Tom Battles (RIP) on guitar, Paul Orr on bass, & David Lee (RIP) on drums, set up our gear one afternoon in Mike Haskins' garage right off lower Greenville Avenue in Dallas Texas, back in the early 1990s. We recorded three tunes that day. "Jekyll & Hyde" and "Man From Mars" were released as a Honey Records 45 single. "Cravin'" was the third tune we recorded that day...

New track posted to Bandcamp: https://ttexedwards.bandcamp.com/track/cravin Many thanks to Vern Evans for the photo.

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Donna Rose sits in with The Swingin' Cornflake Killers w/ T. Tex Edwards

photo by Steve Enticknap (from the early 1990s at 14 Records in Dallas)

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Dallas April 4, 2009 Artwork by Pat Ramseur

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Sound Off: T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole

http://www.austinsound.net/2009/10/26/sound-off-t-tex-edwards-and-out-on-parole/

Austin Sound the independent music source for austin

By Austin Sound • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Featured Story, Sound Off • Back in the late Seventies and early Eighties, T. Tex Edwards helped define the “cowpunk” sound in Texas, first with the Cramps-ian ferocity of The Nervebreakers and later with the rootsier pull of his projects that would evolve into T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole. At times twisted and brooding, T. Tex Edwards’ brand of psycho-billy trolls the darker edges of Americana with a surly Texas swagger and irreverence that rips rockabilly and jungle-twang. Edwards is preparing a career compilation album for release early next year, as well as a new Nervebreakers record, but this Saturday, Oct. 31, you can spend Halloween with the legend and fellow local icons as T. Tex Edwards and Out on Parole desecrate the Hole in the Wall alongside the notorious Hickoids and the Gay Sportscasters featuring guitar giant Evan Johns. Also, we highly recommend following http://twitter.com/Ttexedfor some incomparable history lessons!

Profile: T. Tex Edwards Year Formed: The original Out On Parole was back in the 1980’s, my first go-round living in Austin. I moved back here in the late 90’s & we reformed OOP when our album got re-released on CD by Saustex in 2007. Members/Instruments played: The current Out On Parole has: Joe Dickens, “Big Jeff” Keyton & Chad Nichols on guitars, J.J. Barrera or Pat Collins on bass, & usually Mike Buck or Karen Biller on drums, but Jonie Hell is filling in this Halloween at the Hole. Former Bands/Side Projects: Nervebreakers, Tex & the Saddletramps, Out On Parole, The Loafin’ Hyenas, Swingin’ Cornflake Killers, & The Affordable Caskets. /Recorded one-off singles with the Hickoids, Lithium X-mas, disGraceland, & Fireworks. Albums: Nervebreakers:

We Want Everything (Existential Vacuum LP/Get Hip CD), Hijack the Radio! (Rave Up LP) 2010 CD release of a new Nervebreakers album, Face Up to Reality;

with Out On Parole: Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone To Kill (Sympathy for the Record Industry LP ‘89/Saustex CD ‘07) The Loafin’ Hyenas: The Loafin’ Hyenas (New Rose LP/CD ‘91) with Swingin’ Cornflake Killers: Up Against the Floor (Honey CD ‘96) upcoming CD, Intexicated!, a “best of” collection of T. Tex Edwards hits, near-misses, one-off’s, & oddities (1982-2001). Influences: Numerous, from all over the place. Strangest comment or comparison ever made about your music: The couple that met at one of my gigs years ago, both having “Psycho” as their favorite song, & then wanting me to play it at their wedding. Favorite local bands: Eve & the Exiles, Transgressors, Victims of Leisure, Leroi Brothers, Churchwood, Hickoids, Cold Hard Facts, Uglybeats, Jesse Sublett… Favorite local venue: This week, the Hole-in-the-Wall. Next month, I think we will be at Roadhouse Rags, so that will be… Upcoming shows scheduled: Oct. 31 - Hole Some of your favorite albums from the past year: The Movie Star Junkies from Italy & the Plastic Pals from Sweden. Ideal band (past or present) to open for on a national tour: The Only Ones. Austin Sound questions: You were at the forefront of the Cowpunk scene back in the late 70s and 80s. Looking back, how much do feel that that scene’s emergence was in reaction to the popularity of progressive country in Texas? Well it was sometimes called “regressive country” or “punktry & western” back then. Do y’all have anything special planned for the Halloween show? I guess we’re obligated to do costumes. I hear JJ’s gonna be an executioner. I haven’t come up with anything yet. And alot of our material is especially creepy as it is. Song Introduction: “Move It’ is one of two of my songs covered by other artists, by the Leroi Brothers on the Lucky Lucky Me LP from 1985, (the other being “If Looks Could Kill” covered by Texas Terri). Sound Off: We still do the “psycho-country” murder ballads, but also jungle-rhythmed 6o’s pop-psych surfed trash dark-side-of-the-hick fun stuff too… Mp3s: Move It: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/MoveIt.mp3 Psycho: http://www.austinsound.net/dl/psycho.mp3 Websites: Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ttexedwardsTagged as: T. Tex Edwards

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"LSD Made A Wreck Outta Me" T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin' Cornflake Killers ( Tom Battles, Paul Orr & David Lee) 1991 PEPE (Tom Foote) Memorial Show at Tree's in Dallas.

Video by Jeffrey Liles

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"LSD Made A Wreck Outta Me" T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin' Cornflake Killers ( Tom Battles, Paul Orr & David Lee) early 1990s at Tree's in Dallas

video by Jeffrey Liles

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Olaf Jens  · Happy birthday T. Tex Edwards!!! November 14, 2021

Thom "Tex" Edwards (born in Dallas, Texas, United States), is an American country and punk rock vocalist and songwriter. Allmusic Guide calls him "a pioneering, under-appreciated, and often neglected chronicler of the offbeat and eccentric traditions of country rock & roll."

T. Tex Edwards came to prominence as the lead vocalist of Dallas area punk band The Nervebreakers. They had a minor hit with the single "My Girlfriend is a Rock," and opened for bands like The Ramones in 1977, Sex Pistols on their 1978 US Tour and The Clash in 1980.

After The Nerverbreakers, influenced by The Cramps and Gun Club T. Tex turned to rockabilly with Tex & The Saddletramps. Their song "Move It!" was later covered by LeRoi Brothers, but the band soon disbanded. Other acts followed, like Out on Parole in 1984, Loafin' Hyenas in 1987, followed by a succession of other bands named tongue firmly in cheek: The Swingin' Cornflake Killers (1991–1996), Tex & The Toetags (1998–2000), The Affordable Caskets (2000–2003) and Purple Stickpin (2010–current).

Both Out on Parole and Loafin' Hyenas released LPs in the late 1980s and early 1990s followed by a succession of 7" singles on various independent labels and under numerous names. "Up Against the Floor," backed by The Swingin' Cornflake Killers, came out in 1996 and a retrospective compilation of odds and ends "Intexicated!" came out in 2012.

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T. Tex Edwards and the Swingin' Cornflake Killers at Trees in 1991 - I’m A-Gonna Kill You

Former Nervebreakers lead singer T. Tex Edwards recorded live in 1991 at Trees in Deep Ellum at the first anniversary of the death of Pepe, the frontman for Loco Gringos. 

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDeoYIf_XVk)

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Whiskey Trip (Live 1991) - T. Tex Edwards & the Swingin’ Cornflake Killers

T. Tex Edwards and the Swingin' Cornflake Killers live in Dallas, Texas at Flykillers Halloween Party 1991... Gary Stewart song gets the T. Tex treatment...

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24v17Of5zK8)

RIP piano playing Gavin Edmund Smith...

The original "Swingin' Cornflake Killer", the band name followed  Sharon R Fletcher dubbing Gavin: "the cornflake killer"... He also had a bit part as one of Jack Ruby's musicians in the film "JFK"...