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| 2006 remaster |
release date: Mar. 1992
format: cd (2006 remaster)
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,32]
producer: Jeffrey Lee Pierce
label: Flow Records - nationality: USA
Studio album by The Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce recorded in between albums with his primary band and released as Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love. Jeffrey Lee plays guitar and sings together with guitarist Cypress Love and drummer Willie Love. Carl La Fong isn't credited on the album but he appears to playing the bass. The majority of the tracks are cover versions of classic blues songs written by various artists, which include Don Nix, Willie Brown, and Chester Burnett. The songs are all well-played and cleverly arranged, and despite the fact that the original blues isn't really my kinda style, this is quite originally sounding with a lot of genuine heartfelt craftsmanship to it, so to ignore it would be a shame. I like it, It's gooood.
The 2006 remaster comes with the additional title: "9 Lives No. 5" indicating nine releases made by Flow Records to pay tribute to Pierce - the '9 lives' of course referring to how Pierce managed to stay alive, when others would've surcumbed earlier being exposed to what he went through.
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