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Gun Club, The

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The Gun Club was formed by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, former head of the Blondie fan club in Los Angeles.

Joining him was Brian Tristan, who was later renamed Kid Congo Powers during his stint with The Cramps. By 1982, the band had signed to Blondie guitarist Chris Stein’s Animal Records and temporarily relocated to New York to record 1982’s Miami. This album features Stein as producer, and you can hear Debbie Harry on backup vocals on select tracks. Going for a higher, more desolate sound, frontman and slide player Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band were literally on fire. The songs here, from “Carry Home”, “Like Calling Up Thunder”, “Devil in the Woods”, “Watermelon Man”, “Bad Indian” and “Texas Serenade” center themselves on a mutant form of country music that meets the post-punk ethos. This is hardcore snake-charming music, evil, smoky, and brash. In the bird’s-eye view of history its songs are all classics.

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Track Listings

Side A
1. Carry Home
2. Like Calling Up Thunder
3. Brother And Sister
4. Run Through The Jungle
5. Devil In The Woods
6. Texas Serenade

Side B
1. Watermelon Man
2. Bad Indian
3. John Hardy
4. Fire Of Love
5. Sleeping In Blood City
6. Mother Of Earth

Bonus tracks included on the download code:
1: Ghost On The Highway (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
2: Walkin' With The Beast (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
3: I Hear Your Heart Singing (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
4: A Devil In The Woods (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
5: Goodbye Johnny (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
6: For The Love Of Ivy (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
7: Bad Indian (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
8: Strange Fruit/Fire Spirit (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
9: Carry Home (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
10: Preachin' The Blues (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
11: Sexbeat (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)
12: Jack On Fire (Live Continental Club Ny 1982)

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