Various Artists - Axels & Sockets (The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project) (2014)

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, which consists of parts of the legendary Gun Club , Jeffrey Lee Pierce singer of friends and fans of the artist who died in 1996 , presented to Axel & Sockets on May 02, 2014, the third part of an extraordinary project.
With artists such as Nick Cave, Debbie Harry , Mark Lanegan , Lydia Lunch , Warren Ellis, Mick Harvey and Kid Congo Powers , combine to Axel & Sockets many well-known names of the first two parts of We Are Only Riders and The Journey Is Long. For the first time are none other than punk icon Iggy Pop , Mark Stewart, Thurston Moore, Jim Sclavunos , Primal Scream and Andrew Weatherall ! Coordinated by Pierce's musical companion Cypress Grove, manage the musicians of the Sessions Project also in the 3rd part of song sketches, demos , riffs , scraps of text and Soundschnippseln who had born in California in 1958 Pierce recorded and written down before his death , new and breathtaking songs will allow .
Jeffrey Lee Pierce caught for the first time in 1981 influenced by the punk - blues debut of the Gun Club Fire Of Love international sensation . Followed by gigantic albums like Miami ( with Debbie Harry as a guest singer ) , The Las Vegas Story and Mother Juno , as well as the solo albums Wildweed and Ramblin ' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove With Willie Love , died Jeffrey Lee Pierce in 1996 , unfortunately, far too early to a brain hemorrhage . The idea for the project came Sessions Cypress Grove mucking out of his apartment when he accidentally old cassette demos took place , which he had recorded with Jeffrey before his death.
With Iggy Pop, who sings a duet with Nick Cave ' Nobody's City ' and Debbie Harry , evoking the Blondie punk-pop sound along with the Amber Lights ( Mick Harvey and JP Shilo ) on the dedicated to her song ' Kisses For My President ' , Axel & sockets feelers out further than ever before. Familiar faces include Mark Lanegan , Bertrand Cantat , Crippled Black Phoenix, Gallon Drunk 's James Johnston and Cypress Grove. New in the boat, which are Mark Stewart and Thurston Moore, Primal Scream , Andrew Weatherall , and Garside KatieJane Andrea Schroeder . With Black Moth from Leeds there is also a very young band on Axels & Sockets , which is produced by Bad Seeds drummer and Sessions Project Co - coordinator Jim Sclavunos.