Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee

This is a bit of a detour from our other posts, but I hope people reading this will like it anyway. The Gun Club are one of my all-time favorite bands, and like the old blues music they drew inspiration from, I think their influence and sound remain just as relevant today. It will soon be 15 years since Jeffrey Lee Pierce passed away, but he still remains one of the best frontmen to ever live, and I'm using this as an excuse to make this post. It's not easy to describe their sound, as they pretty much created a genre all their own, so I'll let the music do the talking. This first video is their cover of Tommy Johnson's great Cool Drink of Water Blues from the groundbreaking album Fire of Love.

This is the first three songs from Jeffrey's somewhat overlooked solo album, Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee and Cypress Grove with Willie Love. This album is mostly a great collection of blues covers, spanning everything from electric style Chicago blues to acoustic, country blues.

And Mother of Earth from the album Miami, just because I felt like posting my favorite song.