The Journey Is Long, by The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

The Journey Is Long

by The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

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1.	City in Pain - Nick Cave 04:00	buy track
2.	I'm Going Upstairs - Hugo Race 04:15	buy track
3.	From Death To Texas - Steve Wynn 04:04	buy track
4.	The Breaking Hands - Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell 04:21	buy track
5.	The Jungle Book - The Amber Lights 04:36	buy track
6.	Rose's Blues - Bertrand Cantat, Pascal Humbert, Warren Ellis, Cypress Grove 02:58	buy track
7.	Zonar Roze - Thalia Zedek & Chris Brokaw 02:48	buy track
8.	L.A. County Jail Blues - Cypress Grove 03:15	buy track
9.	I Wanna Be You - Barry Adamson 04:14	buy track
10.	Sonny Boy - Mick Harvey 02:48	buy track
11.	Book Of Love - Vertical Smile 03:36	buy track
12.	Body And Soul - Astro-Unicorn 04:46	buy track
13.	The Brink - Lydia Lunch 03:32	buy track
14.	The Breaking Hands - Nick Cave & Deborah Harry 02:16	buy track
15.	In My Room - Tex Perkins & Lydia Lunch 03:56	buy track
16.	The Jungle Book - Tav Falco's Panther Burns 03:53	buy track
17.	St. Mark's Place - Mick Harvey 04:52	buy track
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The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project follows 2009's acclaimed We Are Only Riders collection with a second volume of the late Gun Club leader's previously-unreleased works-in-progress, brought to life by old friends, collaborators and acolytes. Many songs started as nascent ideas captured on a cassette unearthed by Pierce's latter day collaborator Cypress Grove while clearing out his loft. Harking back to the collective ethos of Pierce's beloved jazz, artists spill into each other's tracks, reinterpreting or finishing lyrical and melodic sketches while some chose personal favorites from his catalog. This time, the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project includes Nick Cave (who also takes part in a return duet with Debbie Harry on "The Breaking Hands"), Mick Harvey, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, The Jim Jones Revue, Kid Congo Powers, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, Vertical Smile, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Warren Ellis, Barry Adamson, Bertrand Cantat & Pascal Humbert, Thalia Zedek & Chris Brokaw, Hugo Race, Dom Beken and Kris & Michelle Needs, sometimes in different combinations. "This is not a tribute project, which usually consists of third rate re-treads of an artist's most famous work, 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! It's a musical collective of artists who have come together to interpret or complete skeletal, unfinished material by Jeffrey. Where possible we have used Jeffrey's contributions, so he actually appears posthumously on this album." Pierce and his ever-changing Gun Club line-ups poured America's roots music forms into a blender of hard drugs and liquor, wrenching the udders of America's bloated cow to spew out toxic, low-life hollers and swamped-up songs of love and desperation. He seemed to have located the dark main artery of the blues, loaded up an overblown hypo and set the plunger to permanent stun. Includes a 20-page booklet featuring memorabilia and extensive liner notes by Kris Needs.

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released March 20, 2012

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