The Gun Club

The Gun Club
Pierce in 1985
Background information
Also known as	The Cyclones, the Creeping Ritual
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Post-punk, punk rock, psychobilly, alternative rock, punk blues, cowpunk
Years active	1979–1996
Labels	Ruby Slash Animal Red Rhino Fire New Rose Triple X
Past members	Jeffrey Lee Pierce Kid Congo Powers Don Snowden Brad Dunning Terry Graham Rob Ritter Anna Statman Ward Dotson Billy Persons Annie Ungar Patricia Morrison Jim Duckworth Dee Pop Jimmy Joe Uliana Desi Desperate Romi Mori Nick Sanderson Simon Fish Rainer Lingk Robert Marche Efe Mike Martt Randy Bradbury Brock Avery Elizabeth Montague

The Gun Club were an American post-punk band from Los Angeles that existed from 1979 to 1996. Created and led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, they were notable as one of the first bands in the punk rock subculture to incorporate influences from blues, rockabilly, and country music. The Gun Club has been called a "tribal psychobilly blues" band,^[1] as well as initiators of the punk blues sound cowpunk – "He (Pierce) took Robert Johnson 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."^[2]