Preaching The Blues
formerly known as "Goodbye Jeffrey Lee"
dedicated to the memory of Jeffrey Lee Pierce (1958-1996) and his work
The Magnix Archive of The Gun Club & Jeffrey Lee Pierce Live Recordings
(formerly known as The Gun Club Bootlegs & Tape/CD-R Trading Page)
by Ger Potze
originally created: March-August 1998
'on hold' between October 2003 and October 2012
last modified: October 21, 2012


< 1994 >

Index

Line-up #6C (October 1993 - May 1994): Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals/guitar)/ Robert Marche (guitar)/ Romi Mori (bass) and Nick Sanderson (drums).

Komm, Nürnberg, Germany, March 23, 1994
  1. Sorrow Knows
  2. A House Is Not A Home
  3. The Straits Of Love And Hate
  4. Emily's Changed
  5. St. John's Divine
  6. Another Country's Young
  7. Ride
  8. Go Tell The Mountain
  9. Hearts
  10. Bad Indian
  11. Thunderhead
  12. Goodbye Johnny
    encore
  13. Idiot Waltz

Audience recording.

Personal source: AIWA CM30 stereo mic-> SONY WMD6 portable c-recorder->MC (TDK SA 90)->playback on Harman Kardon CD 491 -> ALCrec->WAV->Soundengine (edit/remaster)->WAV->TLH8->FLAC

Running time: approx. 76 mins.
Quality:





PH Mensa, Weingarten, Germany, March 30, 1994
  1. Intro/Sorrow Knows
  2. A House Is Not A Home
  3. The Straits Of Love And Hate
  4. Emily's Changed
  5. Another Country's Young
  6. Ride
  7. Go Tell The Mountain
  8. Hearts
  9. Bad Indian
  10. Thunderhead
  11. Goodbye Johnny

Audience recording.

The tape was labeled as being from April 30th.

Personal source: ? -> Tape

Running time: approx. 60 mins.
Quality: very good





Kulturladen KFZ, Marburg, Germany, March 31, 1994
  1. intro
  2. Sorrow Knows
  3. A House Is Not A Home
  4. The Straits Of Love And Hate
  5. Emily's Changed
  6. St.John's Divine
  7. Another Country's Young
  8. Ride
  9. Go Tell The Mountain
  10. Hearts
  11. Bad Indian
  12. Thunderhead
  13. Goodbye Johnny
    encore 1
  14. Sleeping In Blood City
  15. Idiot Waltz
    encore 2
  16. Jack On Fire

Audience recording.

Personal source: audience DAT master> DAT clone> DAT clone // a Sony DAT + external mic> Fostex D5> Tascam CD-RW 700> EAC> CD Wave Editor> TLH 2.4.1 (flac level 8)

Running time: approx. 89 mins.
Quality:





Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 13, 1994
  1. Wanted Man

Jeffrey Lee Pierce guests on vocals on the last song of this Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds show.

Personal source: Audience recording -> ? -> Tape -> Tape, and transferred to FLAC

Running time: approx. .. mins.
Quality: very good





Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Knaack Club, Berlin, Germany, October 20, 1994
  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  5. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  9. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  10. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  11. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
    encore
  12. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  13. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)*

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Audience DAT recording.

Personal source: Soundman OKM-IIR mics > Sony TCD-D3 (DAT recorder) > Fostex D5> Tascam CD-RW 700> EAC> CD Wave Editor> TLH 2.4.1 (flac level 8)

Running time: approx. 59 mins.
Quality:

* "Long Long Gone" is credited to Frankie Lee Sims on the "Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove with Willie Love" album, but it originally is a traditional called "Lost John".
It's about an escaped prisoner with a master trick: "Long John made a special pair of shoes. Just as good a shoes as was ever were worn. Had heels in front and heels behind. You couldn't tell whichaway Lost John gwine". In 1920 W.C. Handy worked this theme out in vaudeville blues "Long Gone John/Lost John Dean From Bowling Green", telling the story of an escaped bankrobber from the Bowling Green prison. They let him go to test some new bloodhounds, and while you don't trick these monsters with double heeled shoes, this John was gone for good, straight into legend.

Frankie Lee Sims was the first to call the song "Long Long Gone" after it had been recorded as "Lost John", "Long Gone Lost John" (by Papa Charlie Jackson (1928), who also gets credits for the lyrics), "Lost John Dean", "Long Gone", "Long Gone From Bowling Green, and as "Long John Green". Afterwards it also has been recorded as "Long Gone Like A Turkey Through The Corn", "Lost John He's Gone, and as "Lost John He's Gone]".

Source: The Originals by Arnold Rypens.






Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Jazzhus Montmatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 22, 1994
  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  5. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  9. "Jeffrey we love you"
  10. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  11. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  12. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
    encore 1
  13. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  14. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)
    encore 2
  15. Future Blues (Willie Brown)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Audience recording.

Personal source: DAT audience master>DAT>FOSTEX D-5>TASCAM CD-RW 700>EAC>CD Wave Editor (track splitting)>TLH 2.4.1 (FLAC level 8)

Running time: approx. 64 mins.
Quality:





Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
LGB, Nürnberg, Germany, October 26, 1994
  1. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  2. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  3. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  4. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  5. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  6. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)
  7. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mel Tillis)
  8. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Bob Dylan)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Incomplete audience recording.

Personal source: AIWA CM30 Mic->SONY WMD6 portable recorder->TDKSA90MC->playback on HARMAN KARDON CD491->ALCrec->HD(WAV)->Soundengine (edit/remaster)->WAV->TLH8->FLAC

Running time: approx. 42 mins.
Quality: very good/excellent





Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Cookys, Frankfurt, Germany, October 31, 1994
  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  5. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  9. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  10. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  11. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
    encore 1
  12. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  13. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mel Tillis)
  14. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)
    encore 2
  15. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Bob Dylan)
  16. I Am A Rock (Paul Simon)
  17. Breaking Hands (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  18. My Cousin Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  19. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee solo - very short kinda lullaby

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Audience DAT recording.

Personal source: a Sony DAT recorder + external mic> Fostex D5> Tascam CD-RW 700> EAC> CD Wave Editor> TLH 2.4.1 (FLAC level 8)

Running time: approx. 77 mins.
Quality:





Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Slovensko Mladisko Gledališce, Ljubljana, Slovenija, November 6, 1994 - version 1

Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove recorded live for The Jane Weber Show
at the Slovensko Mladisko Gledališce, Ljubljana, Slovenija:

  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  5. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  9. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  10. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  11. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  12. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  13. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mel Tillis)
  14. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)
  15. I Am A Rock (Paul Simon)
  16. Breaking Hands (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Soundboard recording.

Recorded by Januš Luznar.
Produced by Jane Weber.

© Radio Slovenija

Personal source: Soundboard DAT -> Tape, transferred to CD-R, and later encoded to FLAC
(also downloaded as: Radio broadcast of unknown generation (received in CDR trade)>EAC>TLH 2.4.1 (FLAC level 8), but this is the same as my transfer)

Running time: approx. 62 mins.
Quality: excellent



Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Slovensko Mladisko Gledališce, Ljubljana, Slovenija, November 6, 1994 - version 2
  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  5. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  9. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  10. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  11. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  12. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  13. Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Mel Tillis)
  14. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)
  15. I Am A Rock (Paul Simon)
  16. Breaking Hands (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

As released on the "Anarchic Blues" LP/CD (Music Melon/Mischief Music, 2011).

Tracks 9-11 appear on the CD as one long track. Track 14 is not listed on the sleeve, but is included on the CD as part of track 13. Tracks 9-11, and 14 do not appear on the LP.

The sound is a bit muffled, my own transfer of my 1st generation tape is much clearer. This release also has those annoying 0.2 seconds gaps between the tracks. This also happened on the "The Life And Times Of Jeffrey Lee Pierce" 4CD boxed set. The people releasing this stuff are simply plain stupid!!

Personal source: CD -> FLAC

Running time: approx. 62 mins.
Quality: very good

Index
< 1994 >

Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove
Cactus Club, Brugge, Belgium, November 12, 1994
  1. St. Louis Blues (William Christopher Handy, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce & Cypress Grove)
  2. Pony Blues (Charley Patton)
  3. Titanic Blues ('Hi' Henry Brown)
  4. Sto' Gallery Blues (Willie Ford)
  5. My Black Mamma (James McCoy/Son House)
  6. John Henry (traditional)
  7. Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus (Willie '61' Blackwell)
  8. Spanish Flang Dang* (Elizabeth Cotton)
  9. Alabama Blues ((Robert Wilkins)) (intro only) / From Temptation To You (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  10. Crawl Out Your Window (Bob Dylan)
  11. John Hardy (traditional, arranged by Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  12. Mother Earth (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  13. Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
    encore
  14. Not Supposed To Be That Way (Willie Nelson)
  15. Breaking Hands (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
  16. Long Long Gone (Frankie Lee Simms)

Jeffrey Lee Pierce - vocals, acoustic guitar
Tony Chmelik - acoustic guitar

Personal source: ? -> Tape -> Tape
(also downloaded as: DAT audience master >Soundman OKM-R-II mics >SONY TCD-D7(DAT) >FOSTEX D5 >TASCAM CD-RW 700 >EAC >CD Wave Editor 1.91 >TLH 2.4.1 (flac level 8))

Running time: approx. 69 mins.
Quality: (very) good

* The never released 9th volume in the Dutch Flow Records compilation series of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club albums "9 Lives" was supposed to be called "Spanish Flang Dang", and was to comprise recordings from this October-November 1994 Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee & Cypress Grove tour!


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