The Gun Club - Brother and Sister

The Gun Club came out of the LA punk scene of the early 1980s but always stood out from the crowd, thanks to Jeffrey Lee Pierce's obsession with traditional American music (at its darkest). Think a less cartoony Cramps, or Nick Cave on coke instead of heroin. Some of it I find almost unlistenable, but when they got it right, it was tremendously powerful stuff.

Pierce died in the mid-1990s, apparently from a brain hemorrhage, though it's hard not to suspect that drugs had something to do with it.

This is from their second album, 1982's Miami.