Following 2009’s acclaimed We Are Only Riders collection, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project return with a second volume of the late Gun Club leader’s previously-unreleased works-in-progress, brought to life by old friends, collaborators and fans.
The notoriously hard drinking and drug taking hell raiser Jeffrey Lee Pierce died of a brain haemorrhage in 1996. The Gun Club special recipe for music, blended punk with blues, rockabilly and roots. The second volume of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project features the likes of Nick Cave, Barry Adamson, Debbie Harry, Tex Perkins, Lydia Lunch and the Jim Jones revue.
As explained by Cyrpess Grove, Pierce's latter day collaborator who also appears on the album, "This is not a tribute album, but brand new material from beyond the grave. In some cases the artists have had to finish the songs, so there can be no nonsense about this not being as good as the original version... as these are the original versions!"
Many of the artists appear on each others tracks, like a true collective. Warren Ellis appears on the Nick Cave tracks, but also plays with Lydia Lunch, who also sings with Tex Perkins and Barry Adamson, as well as doing her own track. Barry plays bass on Lydia's track and Nick Cave's 'The Breaking Hands', and so on.
The Journey is Long will be released on APril 6 2012. Track listing below.
1. City In Pain – Nick Cave
2. I'm Going Upstairs – Hugo Race
3. From Death To Texas – Steve Wynn
4. The Breaking Hands – Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell
5. The Jungle Book – The Amber Lights
6. Rose's Blues – Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert, Warren Ellis, Cypress Grove
7. Zonar Roze – Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw
8. L.A. County Jail Blues – Cypress Grove
9. I Wanna Be You – Barry Adamson
10. Sonny Boy – Mick Harvey
11. Book Of Love – Vertical Smile (Youth from Killing Joke) 12. Body And Soul – Astro-Unicorn
13. The Brink – Lydia Lunch
14. The Breaking Hands – Nick Cave And Debbie Harry
15. In My Room – Tex Perkins & LYDIA LUNCH
16. The Jungle Book – Tav Falco & Panther Burns
17. St. Marks Place – Mick Harvey
18. Ain't My Problem Baby – The Jim Jones RevuE
