For Hire: The Gun Club
Richard Cook, NME, 7 May 1983
Last year Jeffery Lee Pierce was a chronic depressive and a shithead full of venom. But since then he's sorted out his personal life, and professionally completely remodelled the spookabilly punk of the Gun Club. Richard Cook ventured into a Norfolk swamp to face up to the Gunman.
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