Early Warning

Artist: Gun Club
Label: Sympathy 4 the R.I.
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 790276047822
EAN: 0790276047822
ASIN: B000003L0D

Release Date: 1997-11-11

Early Warning

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Tracks:

Goodbye Johnny
Preaching The Blues
Watermelon Man
Devil In The Woods
Fire Of Love
Ghost On The Highway
Walkin' With The Beast
I Hear Your Heart Singing
Devil In The Woods
Goodbye Johnny
For The Love Of Ivy
Bad Indian
Strange Fruit
Fire Spirit
Carry Home
Preaching The Blues
Sex Beat
Jack On Fire

Tracks:

Promise Me
Treat Your Train Right
Cool Drink Of Water Blues
Devil In The Woods
Goodbye Johnny
Gonna Find My Baby
Desire By Blue River
The Devil & The Nigger
An American Promise
I'm On This Rocket
Your Man's Feelin' Low
John Henry
Blackjack Davey
Waiting
Hey Baby
Hey Madame

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Customer Reviews:

Sex and Fear.......2006-07-08

Regardless of the fact sound quality is not a factor for the pure sexual energy of the Gun Club, disc two is so stuffed with acoustic wonderment that the set price could be raised to a kidney. 'The Devil and the Nigger' is the song you've always wanted to hear but were too scared to know exists.

If raw sexual energy scares you so much your voice quakes (and it should) then this record will explain why. Life is about dirty, panicky, sex, and Gun Club know that.

Oh, come ON........2004-12-04

Sound quality?

How can somebody listen to a set as intense and raw and brutally beautiful as this and worry about SOUND QUALITY? Kids, the Gun Club were never meant to seep out of $1000 Bose "home entertainment center" speakers, and if you haven't figured that out yet, then you're beyond hope anyway. The songs on the second disc sound like dirty home recordings because they ARE dirty home recordings, and frankly I'm just thrilled to be able to hear them. Disc One, it's true, is hardly a multi-million dollar, post produced within an inch of its life, Frampton Comes Alive-type affair...and thank god for that. The fidelity ain't nearly as bad as Metallic KO either, and if that record can become an essential part of Iggy's canon I don't see why this one can't become a must-have in Jeffrey Lee's. Because this is the bottom line, people: the performances on this record absolutely scorch. Nobody with red blood, a heartbeat and a love for authentic rock'n'blues should be able to listen to the 1982 live versions of "For the Love of Ivy", "Preachin' the Blues" and "Fire Spirit" and think, "gee, this mix is a little trebly." This is intense, fantastic stuff. Admittedly not as essential a purchase as the first three studio albums...but close enough. Ignore the whining, do yourself a favor and listen to this record. You won't regret it.

The flame that burned brightest..........2002-12-31

Seductive, pelvic grooves, blazing Delta slide guitar, and lyrical vision on par with Jim Morrison's made up The Gun Club's explosive compound. The early Gun Club played with passion, commitment, and an ear for tradition that set them apart from the monochord macho of West Coast Hardcore and freeze-dried irony of British New Wave. The founding fathers of the blues provided Gun Club founder Jeffrey Lee Pierce with inspiration, but JLP reached deeper into the darkness of the American collective unconscious than his predecessors dared. Images of desolation and depravity, haunted highways, and deadly women roam through Pierce's lyrics, sung in his plaintive, desperate tenor. JLP's ego and drunken onstage conduct began thinning The Gun Club's ranks after only two albums. The forces that fueled the artist destroyed the band, and ultimately, the man. Disc 1 opens with five 1981 demos that strike like lightning; the incredibly tight 13-song May, 1982 set (dubbed from a vinyl bootleg) is a thrilling, harrowing ride on the edge of an abyss. This show may well have been the original lineup's finest hour, providing definitive performances of most of JLP's best songs. The second disc of oddly poignant demos captures a twentyish Jeffrey Lee Pierce at home, playing mix of blues standards and originals on acoustic guitar. The poor sound quality on disc 1 is the only drawback to this document of short-lived brilliance.

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