Trigger Happy: Jeffrey Lee Pierce Goes Solo
Kris Needs, ZigZag, March 1985
AND SO the Gun Club was finally laid to rest. That majestic, thrashing animal with its tail in the blues, foot in the garage and head in a bottle.
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