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Cypress Grove | |
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| Born | 1959 (age 63–64) London, England |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter, composer, producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Labels | Glitterhouse, Rustblade |
Cypress Grove (born 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and producer.
Cypress Grove was born into a musical family in London. He was taught by his father, a professional jazz drummer, to play drums from a very early age, but by the time he turned 16, his passion became the guitar. [1] [2]
As his passion for the guitar developed he became infatuated with pre-war acoustic blues. This led to an encounter in 1988 with Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club who shared similar interests and which grew into a collaboration on an album of roots material, Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee and Cypress Grove with Willie Love in 1992. [3] [4] Cypress and Jeffrey went on to tour the album both with a band and as an acoustic duo. [5]
In October 1994, Pierce and Grove were filmed for Henri-Jean Debon's Hard Times Killin' Floor Blues [6] The film was eventually released in 2008. [7]
Ten years after Pierce died of a brain hemorrhage in 1996, Cypress discovered a tape of them rehearsing songs that Jeffrey had written. These were works in progress, and while the quality was deemed too poor for release, Cypress invited a number of musicians to record the songs properly and help him complete them. [8] [9] This series became known as The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project, [6] [10] [11] [12] [13] an endeavour that has currently produced three albums. [14] [15] [16]
Grove has recorded with a number of musicians including Nick Cave, [17] Debbie Harry, [18] [19] Chris Stein, Mark Lanegan, Iggy Pop, Isobel Campbell, Thurston Moore, Warren Ellis, The Raveonettes, Crippled Black Phoenix, Mick Harvey, David Eugene Edwards, Hugo Race, Bertrand Cantat, Barry Adamson, Lydia Lunch, Jim Sclavunos, Mark Stewart and James Johnston.
In 2010, Cypress Grove and Lydia Lunch recorded A Fistful of Desert Blues. [20] [21] [22]
In 2017 they get together once again to record a covers album called Under The Covers. [23]
In 2019 he wrote and performed the song "The Singing Tree" for the feature film Lucania by Gigi Roccati. [24]
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cave's music is characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love and violence.
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, 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."
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