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The Urania Trilogy

Kacky Walton has a conversation with Memphis music legend Tav Falco, who fronts the band Panther Burns. He's also a filmmaker, and is premiering his feature-length work, "The Urania Trilogy" February 15 at 7pm at Malco's Studio on the Square.

Channeling silent movie stylistics and old-world atmospherics, "The Urania Trilogy follows a disenchanted American girl who impulsively travels to Vienna, where she becomes embroiled in plot to uncover buried Nazi plunder.

I owe my radio career to the Ford Motor Company. My daddy had a Ford dealership in our hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi, and he thought it would be cute if his 7-year old daughter did his radio commercials. The pay wasn't great, just a pack of Wrigley's gum, but I was hooked on radio from then on.