Lucky Jim is an album by the American rock band the Gun Club, released in 1993.[3][4] It was the band's final studio album.[5][6]

Production

The album was recorded in Holland, with the band made up of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Romi Mori, and Nick Sanderson.[3] Bart Van Poppel played organ during the recording sessions.[7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	7/10[10]

Trouser Press called the album "an eerily austere record that displays the more spectral side of Pierce’s voice, particularly on the dejected title track and 'Cry to Me' ... the manner in which he replaces post-adolescent rage with full-blown adult emptiness is mighty impressive."[7] Billboard deemed it "a haunting record that reflected Pierce's experiences in Japan and Vietnam, countries to which he traveled several times in the early '90s."[11]

AllMusic wrote" "Lucky Jim, it turns out, didn't just signify the passage of a man, but the disappearance of the only real American rock band left in the world."[8] The Spin Alternative Record Guide concluded that "if the Gun Club's execution on the elegiac Lucky Jim directly recalls the Delta only once ('Anger Blues'), the album is permeated with a sadness and displacement fundamental to the deep blues."[10] Record Collector deemed the songs "gutbucket blues and melancholy acoustic outings," writing that "Pierce found a new kind of intimate personal blues towards the end."[12]

Track listing

References

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