Gun Club “Love Supreme”

Gun Club “Love Supreme” 1985. Offence Records. Today, June 27th, would have been Gun Club founder/frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s 60th birthday (b. 1958, d. 1996). Love Supreme is a live compilation of the Gun Club’s punk, swampy “tribal psychobilly death rock blues” recorded at Imola in Italy and at Al’s Bar in Los Angeles in 1982. Lo-fi and lo-budget, the album includes tracks from Gun Club’s influential 1981 debut Fire of Love like “For the Love of Ivy” and “Goodbye Johnny” as well as from their 1982 LP Miami (“Fire of Love”) while also giving the audiences a preview of a track from the forthcoming 1984 album The Las Vegas Story (“Walkin’ With the Beast”). The title of the live LP comes from Gun Club’s epic cover of John Coltrane’s “Love Supreme.”