The Gun Club

Preaching The Blues

Box Set (Flood Gallery)

The particulars: 7 singles. 56-page booklet. Exclusive-to-set fanzine. Liner notes by John Doe, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, and others. Postcard. Badge.

The late, lamented Jeffery Lee Pierce envisioned a psycho-blues-punk amalgam that depended on austere rock'n'roll instrumentation, and heart and soul, to communicate dark narratives. 

Slide guitar and power chords meshed and contrasted in singular, tempestuous union. Slurred traditionalism was a beast that found favor among spiky battalions. That vocals were often tortured and seemingly yearned for understanding was only appropriate.

Tales he penned were at once poetic and aggressively assertive, mining the underside of the human experience for poverty riches accessible to the average man who dared to believe against experiential evidence in life's potential for something worthwhile. 

Or at least another damaged person's salvational grace.

Recommended: "Ghost On the Highway," "Sex Beat," "Fire Of Love," "Carry Home," "Brother and Sister," "The House On Highlad Ave,," "The Lie," "Crabdance," "Pastoral Hide and Seek," "Black Hole," "Emily's Changed," "Cry To Me," "Give Up the Sun"

Video: "The Lie"

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