May 14th, 2012 at 11:17PM
I can’t stand country punk, white boy blues and I really revile all rockabilly revival stuff (except for the Cramps of course), but the Gun Club were like country blues with a gothy post punk attitude and their first three records Fire of Live, Miami and the Las Vegas Story are all total classics. Jeffrey Lee Pierce was a howling vocalist and a totally effecting brilliant songwriter bar none. He evolved from just doing blues pastiches into something using blues mythology and sounds as a symbol of his actual anguish instead of just relishing in “tradition.”

I can’t stand country punk, white boy blues and I really revile all rockabilly revival stuff (except for the Cramps of course), but the Gun Club were like country blues with a gothy post punk attitude and their first three records Fire of Live, Miami and the Las Vegas Story are all total classics. Jeffrey Lee Pierce was a howling vocalist and a totally effecting brilliant songwriter bar none. He evolved from just doing blues pastiches into something using blues mythology and sounds as a symbol of his actual anguish instead of just relishing in “tradition.”

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