{"id":21514,"date":"2021-08-29T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21514"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:32:25","slug":"album-review-the-gun-club-fire-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/29\/album-review-the-gun-club-fire-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Gun Club &#8212; Fire of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21515\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gun_club_fire_of_love.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gun_club_fire_of_love.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gun_club_fire_of_love-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gun_club_fire_of_love-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Blixa Sounds released an expanded reissue of the Gun Club\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/26\/album-review-the-gun-club-miami\/\"><i>Miami<\/i><\/a> in 2000, and now their similar treatment of the Los Angeles punk band\u2019s debut album, <i>Fire of Love<\/i>, is getting similar treatment. Oddly \u2013 at least to these ears \u2013 it\u2019s more accessible than the second LP. Yes, Jeffrey Lee Pierce\u2019s open relationship with melody is on display, but the punk\/roots hybrid that the group pioneered is supremely effective.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what it might have sounded like had Jim Morrison explored punk, blues and country all at once, \u201cPreaching the Blues\u201d might point the way toward an answer. The band sounds like it\u2019s falling apart on \u201cPromise Me,\u201d but that\u2019s clearly by design. \u201cShe is Like Heroin to Me\u201d barrels along, careening wildly toward its finish in two-plus minutes.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not much in the way of variety in the guitar sounds employed by Pierce and Ward Dotson; most of the tone colo comes via the whip-smart rhythm section of bassist Rob Ritter and drummer Terry Graham. That said, Dotson\u2019s frenzied slide work on cuts like \u201cFor the Love of Ivy\u201d is exciting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The original Fire of Love ran eleven tracks. Blixa\u2019s reissue adds ten more to the first disc: alternate versions and demos, they\u2019re thinner in fidelity bu have a similar energy to the official tracks. The second disc presents a 1981 live set at Club 88. There have been numerous Gun Club live releases over the years, but the one included here documents a very early performance.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s earnest liner notes are worthwhile reading, and the booklet contains some excellent photos of the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blixa Sounds released an expanded reissue of the Gun Club\u2019s Miami in 2000, and now their similar treatment of the Los Angeles punk band\u2019s debut album, Fire of Love, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,59,62,64,65],"tags":[4409],"class_list":["post-21514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-cowpunk","category-punk","category-rawk","category-reissue","category-review","tag-the-gun-club","cat-6-id","cat-21-id","cat-59-id","cat-62-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21516,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions\/21516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}