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Frigging fantastic

carla la fong | 05/19/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"not one phony note. teeth-grittingly thrilling. that about says it.

carla la fong"

Long Live Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Aaron M. Thomas | Fort Wayne, IN | 03/29/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This whole album was obviously a labor of love by someone who understood and appreciated blues for everything that makes the blues so incredible.



He covers many different of styles of blues from electric Chicago blues to acoustic delta blues and others. Most of the songs are covers, but there are a few originals. The originals are almost as good as anything he has ever covered (a very cool version of Tommy Johnson's "Cool Drink of Water Blues" was done on the Gun Club "Fire of Love" album).



This is different from anything else he ever did before with Gun Club or his other solo album, "Wildweed," and the real shame is that he wasn't able to go on to do more stuff like this. While Gun Club was an incredible, ground-breaking band, I think that fans of Jeffrey Lee Pierce will see this album as a true testament to how amazing a musician he was, and hopefully the rest of the world will realize it one day."