Nick Cave and Debbie Harry have covered The Gun Club for a new tribute album – stream it below.
The Gun Club are a perennially under-rated group. Fusing a distorted view of Americana with some often searingly personal songwriting, the band left a compact, influential legacy.
A new tribute album has been arranged, focussing on the work of frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Sadly passing away due to a brain haemorrhage in 1996, the new album uses fresh renditions of unreleased material.
Filtering through demo tapes and home recordings left in the songwriter’s loft, ‘The Journey Is Long’ will be released through Fuse. Debbie Harry and Nick Cave cross swords on ‘The Breaking Hands’ – stream their rendition below. (via Mess & Noise)
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Due for release in the United States on April 6th, ‘The Journey Is Long’ contains the following tracklisting:
City In Pain – Nick Cave
I’m Going Upstairs – Hugo Race
From Death To Texas – Steve Wynn
The Breaking Hands – Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell
The Jungle Book – The Amber Lights
Rose’s Blues – Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert, Warren Ellis, Cypress Grove
Zonar Roze – Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw
L.A. County Jail Blues – Cypress Grove
I Wanna Be You – Barry Adamson
Sonny Boy – Mick Harvey
Book Of Love – Vertical Smile (Youth from Killing Joke)
Body And Soul – Astro-Unicorn
The Brink – Lydia Lunch
The Breaking Hands – Nick Cave And Debbie Harry
In My Room – Tex Perkins & Lydia Lunch
The Jungle Book – Tav Falco & Panther Burns
St. Marks Place – Mick Harvey
Ain’t My Problem Baby – The Jim Jones Revue
