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. Cypress and Jeffrey went on to tour the album both with a band and as an acoustic duo. In October 1994, Pierce and Grove were filmed for Henri-Jean Debon's ''Hard Times Killin' Floor Blues'' 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. This series became known as
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Session Project, an endeavour that has currently produced four albums. Grove has recorded with a number of musicians including
Nick Cave,
Debbie Harry,
Chris Stein,
Mark Lanegan,
Iggy Pop,
Isobel Campbell,
Thurston Moore,
Warren Ellis (musician),
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. In 2017 they get together once again to record a covers album called
Under The Covers. In 2019 he wrote and performed the song "The Singing Tree" for the feature film
Lucania by Gigi Roccati. ==Discography==