New box set celebrates Joe Strummer’s late years with the Mescaleros

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On August 21, Joe Strummer would have been 70 years old. To mark the birthday, a box set will be released to celebrate his work with the Mescaleros. It contains unreleased songs, demos and outtakes. Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years is out September 16th.

The box set includes remixed editions of all three of the Mescaleros’ studio albums: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go and Streetcore. There are also 15 unreleased songs and the first demos that Strummer wrote for the band. Also included are outtakes, interviews with Joe’s friends and Mescalero’s bandmates, and notes, lyrics and drawings by Strummer.

First song of the collection released

It’s all released on 4 CDs with a 72-page book and as a 7 LP box set with a 32-page book. The set is also available in the special packaging and exclusive 12″x12″ art print. The demo version of “The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll” from the album “Rock Art and the X-Ray Style” was released as a taste test. The box set can here be pre-ordered.

“There’s so much great music that Joe left us in his archive,” said Joe Strummer’s widow and executive producer, Lucinda Tait. At the time, Strummer was “so excited” to be able to work with the Mescaleros. “His words are so beautiful and honest and some fantastic tunes came together with the Mescaleros and it was very special to hear some of the tunes that were outtakes for me,” she added.

Rock Art and the X-Ray Style

  1. Tony Adams
  2. Sandpaper blues
  3. X ray style
  4. Techno D Day
  5. The Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll
  6. Diggin’ The New
  7. nitcomb
  8. Forbidden City
  9. Yalla Yalla
  10. Willesden To Cricklewood

Global A Go Go

  1. Johnny Appleseed
  2. Cool ‘N’ Out
  3. Global A Go Go
  4. Bhindi Bhagee
  5. Gamma Ray
  6. Mega Bottle Ride
  7. Shaktar Donetsk
  8. Mondo Bongo
  9. Bummed Out City
  10. At The Border, Guy
  11. Minstrel Boy (full length version)

street core

  1. coma girl
  2. Get Down Moses
  3. Longshadow
  4. Arms Aloft
  5. Ramshackle Day Parade
  6. Redemption song
  7. All In A Day
  8. Burnin’ Streets
  9. midnight jam
  10. silver and gold

Vibes Compass

  1. Time And The Tide
  2. Techno D Day (Demo)
  3. Ocean Of Dreams (feat. Steve Jones)
  4. Forbidden City (Demo)
  5. X-Ray Style (Demo)
  6. The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo)
  7. Tony Adams (demo)
  8. Cool ‘N’ Out (Demo)
  9. Global A Go-Go (Demo)
  10. Secret agent man
  11. All In A Day (Demo)
  12. London Is Burning
  13. Get Down Moses (Outtake)
  14. Fantastic
  15. Coma Girl (Outtake)

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