Terry Graham - Gun Club - part 2

<p>Terry Graham - Gun Club - part 2 - in conversation with David Eastaugh </p> <p>The Gun Club were an American <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music'>rock</a> band from Los Angeles, California, United States, which existed from 1979 to 1996. Created and led by singer-songwriter and guitarist <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lee_Pierce'>Jeffrey Lee Pierce</a>, they were notable as one of the first bands in the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock'>punk rock</a> subculture to incorporate influences from <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues'>blues</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockabilly'>rockabilly</a>, and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music'>country music</a>. The Gun Club has been called a "tribal <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobilly'>psychobilly</a> blues" band, as well as initiators of the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_blues'>punk blues</a> sound and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpunk'>cowpunk</a> - "He (Pierce) took <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson'>Robert Johnson</a> and pre-war acoustic blues and 'punkified' it. Up until then bands were drawing on Iggy & The Stooges and the New York Dolls but he took it back so much further for inspiration."</p>