Shotgun Wedding, produced by J.G. Thirlwell, was orginally released in 1991 through Triple X records, and is the only studio album by Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. Howard. The album features cover versions of the gospel song”In My Time of Dying” and Alice Cooper’s “Black Juju”. This is not the first time Howard and Lunch had worked together, as there was a time that Nick Cave, Howard, Harvey, Lunch, and Thirlwell collaborated on Honeymoon in Red during the final days of The Birthday Party in 1982 (Lunch and Howard also released their infamous version of Lee Hazelwood’s Some Velvet Morning as a 12 inch single during The Honeymoon in Red period).
Today Shotgun Wedding has been reissued on vinyl through 1972 Records, and would make a great last minute wedding gift.
The concept of a “Christmas miracle” might raise eyebrows amongst those more accustomed to receiving lumps of coal this time…
Death, in literature and myth, has always danced a waltz with romance. It swept Eurydice away from Orpheus’s desperate arms…
He paints on a smile, the pleasure is mutual Attack of denial, be still, it’s only for the wild Bands…
if I could change things I would but it still was your choice hiding making your love look absent as…
I’ve been swimming in an ocean of tears I went swimming in all of my fears And every day is…
Our entire life Was like a spell of beauty and despair This old delusion Hectic with our own selfish thirst…