The Gun Club

The Profile

The Gun Club were an American band formed in Los Angeles, best known for fusing punk’s intensity with Delta blues and country-rooted American music. Fronted by singer/guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, their work is frequently cited as foundational to punk-blues, with early releases like Fire of Love and Miami regarded as classics.

Formed in Los Angeles; associated with punk-blues/post-punk. Jeffrey Lee Pierce (born June 27, 1958) died March 31, 1996 from a cerebral hemorrhage. Key releases include Fire of Love (1981), Miami (1982), Death Party (1983), The Las Vegas Story (1984), Mother Juno (1987), and Lucky Jim (1993).

Across these reviews, The Gun Club are framed as a defining punk-blues act: Delta blues, country and ‘deep South’ tradition accelerated and dirtied up by punk. Jeffrey Lee Pierce is consistently portrayed as the band’s mind and soul, with a charismatic, shamanic voice and a self-destructive trajectory. Fire of Love and Miami are treated as cornerstones (often masterpieces), with Death Party hailed as a raw, incendiary return. Later-era records split opinion more, but Mother Juno and The Las Vegas Story are defended as powerful, underrated chapters, and Lucky Jim as a hidden late gem.