Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years [Deluxe Boxset)

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I just think that what Joe did with the Mescaleros and those records, and those songs, and those words, it was a very communal sound,” said Vedder. Alongside Joe Strummer, the newly relaunched Dark Horse Records roster also includes Billy Idol, Leon Russell, Benmont Tench and others. For more information, please visit www.darkhorserecords.com.

While best known as the front man for The Clash, Strummer produced some of the most exciting work of his career with The Mescaleros. Strummer said during this period: “All that’s happening for me now is just a chancer’s bluff. Joe Strummer 002 is a Dark Horse Records Production. Produced by David Zonshine. Executive Producer Lucinda Tait. Buy from hereLooking at the world right now, many of us can only speculate as to what Joe would have made of the mass hysteria surrounding the passing of Elizabeth Windsor, the Ukraine conflict and acceleration of the western capitalist war machine, the neo-Fascist posturing of this arcane Tory Government and in broad terms, an era in which the interests of common people worldwide are evermore undermined by the energies of greed, power and profit. In a recent interview with Jeff Slate, Joe’s widow Lucinda Tait remarked that she was sure he’d be furiously busy ”banging away on his typewriter” if he was here today and it’s a vision which many across the world will share wistfully. When Joe Strummer passed, the west lost one of its most acutely tuned cultural observers and this box set provides beautifully assembled evidence of that.

interviews with Joe's friends, collaborators and TheMescaleros band members, plus never-before-seenhandwritten notes, lyrics, and drawings by Joe takenfrom the Joe Strummer Archive.

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You have the right to free speech, as long as you’re not dumb enough to try it!”. Those lyrics from the late Joe Strummer have probably never had more genuine resonance in our lifetimes than within the current social climate, which makes the new ‘Joe Strummer 002 The Mescaleros years’ box set, a timely and important release. I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all.”