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We Are Only Riders: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project Glitterhouse Records

Article written by Ged M - Jan 24, 2010

We Are Only Riders: The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project

This is a whole lot more than a ‘cover versions’ record. Musician Cypress Grove discovered a cassette of rough sketches he and Jeffrey Lee Pierce had recorded before the latter’s death in 1996. He then assembled a pretty stellar cast to complete and record the songs in their own way, adding further songs that were unearthed as the project gained momentum (the pre-Gun Club ‘My Cadillac’ and ‘St Mark’s Place’). The fact that they’re not reinterpreting a recorded song means that the artists have freedom to add their signature to JLP’s sketch.

In a fine album there are some standouts. Everything that involves Nick Cave and Mark Lanegan is a must-hear; Cave’s take on ‘Ramblin’ Mind’ (one of three versions) is vintage hellfire-preacher Cave while Lanegan’s ‘Constant Waiting’ (also played thrice) is him at his scarred and soulful best. The duets too, Lanegan with Isobel Campbell and then Cave and Debbie Harry (both singing ‘Free To Walk’) have a fractured beauty and gorgeous melancholy respectively. Add The Raveonettes (this time a wall-of-sound version of ‘Free To Walk’) and Lydia Lunch among others and you have a fine left-field line-up. Hers is a particularly memorable contribution, from the broken down howl of ‘When I Get My Cadillac’ to the heartfelt farewell she makes on the scabrous ‘Walkin’ Down The Street’ (“from one ball-bustin’ bitch to another, baby”). They make neither of them like that nowadays. It’s a great tribute to Jeffrey Lee with the bonus of great performances that lift it above the merely worthy into something to hear in its own right.

Links:
http://www.glitterhouse.com
http://www.jeffreyleepierce.net/