Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years [Deluxe Boxset)

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The music they recorded across their 1999–2002 lifetime – the albums Rock Art And The X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go and Streetcore, which are collected together in this striking new set along with an album’s worth of outtakes, demos and orphaned tracks titled Vibes Compass– documents this process. Rock Art and the X-Ray Style began when Strummer teamed up with Antony Genn as a way to get back into songwriting and performing after spending more than a decade doing soundtrack work and the occasional collaboration.

Through his art, Joe Strummer played his part in shaping the musical landscape of the world and with it left an unrivaled and timeless legacy. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love.The B-sides were readily available, "London is Burning" was already out in "001" (I'm not sure this one any different) and some other problems. While best known as the front man for The Clash, Strummer produced some of the most exciting work of his career with The Mescaleros.

These words from Strummer indicated where he held his standards for making his own music and consuming it. Most of Global a Go-Go came from jams, a trait the Mescaleros chose not to refine over the course of the recording process.

Most critics were predictably kind to it, seeing as how it would be Strummer’s swansong, but many were also enthusiastic over the musical distillation it offered. There’s also the cool paranoia of “Gamma Ray”, the woozy samba of “Mondo Bongo”, and the flute-peppered Indian-flavored “Bhindi Bhagee”. When Strummer died unexpectedly during the making of Streetcore, it seemed he was still moving up, on the brink of a new shift. What an impact, what an amazing musician, what an amazing human being, a great artist, and this boxset perfectly captures the man, the music and the moment, I’m so glad this came out.

The first-ever comprehensive collection highlighting Joe’s work with his post-Clash band, The Mescaleros, the collection includes remastered editions of all three of the band’s studio albums, plus 15 rare and unreleased tracks spanning the first demos Joe wrote for the Mescaleros, and outtakes of several tracks of Joe’s final recordings with the band. The new Joe Strummer boxset, Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, will be released on September 16th, 2022, as part of the celebrations honouring Joe’s 70th birthday year. don't throw away your old records because not all the original artwork is replicated here (let's say that the artwork references the originals, but with a certain degree of liberty. All albums are remastered by Grammy winner Paul Hicks ( The Beatles / The Rolling Stones / John Lennon / David Bowie) and are packaged in a richly curated boxset, featuring extensive new liner notes and interviews with Joe’s friends, collaborators and Mescaleros band members, plus never-before-seen handwritten notes, lyrics, and drawings by Joe taken from the Joe Strummer Archive.

All of the albums are packaged with extensive new liner notes, unreleased images, and four reproduction lyric sheets and chord charts from the Strummer archive.