It"s a wild ride, but then life with Jeffrey Lee Pierce always was"- Kris Needs

The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project has always aimed to highlight Jeffrey Lee Pierce as one of the most influential, but also most underrated US singer-songwriters and to transport his art into today's world by reinterpreting the music of The Gun Club singer, who died far too early in 1996. After "We Are Only Riders" (2009), "The Journey Is Long" (2012) and "Axels and Sockets" (2014), "The Task Has Overwhelmed Us" presents songs from Pierce "s The Gun Club and solo times.
Also included are entirely new tracks, created from song and lyric sketches and live demos that Pierce, born in California in 1958, had recorded and written down before his death.
Almost ten years after the previous album "Axels and Sockets" was released, "The Task Has Overwhelmed Us" is finally the final chapter with artists such as Dave Gahan, Debbie Harry in duet with Nick Cave or Peter Hayes of The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club as a CD, 2xLP, and a limited colored 2xLP

Label
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Genre
Alternative LP - SIDE A
Mother Of Earth - Dave Gahan
La La Los Angeles - The Coathangers
Yellow Eyes - Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Nick Cave & War
Debbie By The Christmas Tree - The Amber Lights
Go Tell The Mountain - Mark Lanegan (feat. Nick Cave &
Going Down The Red River - Jim Jones and the Righteous
The Stranger In Our Town - Peter Hayes, Leah Shapiro, &
Secret Fires - Suzie Stapleton (feat. Duke Garwood)
Tiger Girl - Hugo Race
LP - SIDE B
On The Other Side - Nick Cave & Debbie Harry
Idiot Waltz - Cypress Grove
Tiger Girl - The Amber Lights
From Death To Texas - Alejandro Escovedo
Vodou - Mark Stewart
Time Drains Away - Lydia Lunch, Jozef van Wissem, Jim J
Lucky Jim - Chris Eckman & Chantal Acda
I Was Ashamed - Pam Hogg (feat. Warren Ellis & Youth)
Bad America - Sendelica (feat. Wonder & Dynamax Roberts

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