Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years 7LP Box Set

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years

2022 marks 20 years since the passing of the legendary Joe Strummer. While best known as the frontman for The Clash, between 1999-2002 Strummer produced some of his most exciting work alongside The Mescaleros.

Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years is the first comprehensive collection highlighting this intense period of creativity and brings together the albums Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001), the posthumous Streetcore (2003), and Vibes Compass, a brand-new compilation of 15 B-sides and rarities, including never before heard tracks like 'Ocean of Dreams' (featuring Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar) and early demos of some of the Mescaleros best-loved tracks (“The Road To Rock 'N' Roll,” “X-Ray Style” and more), through to some of the original recordings from Joe's last ever sessions (“Coma Girl (Outtake),” “Fantastic” and “Get Down Moses (Outtake)”), all in one complete boxset.

All albums are remastered by Grammy Award 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 The Mescaleros band members, plus never-before-seen handwritten notes, lyrics, and drawings by Joe taken from the Joe Strummer Archive.

Both the 4CD and 7LP boxes include four reproduction lyric sheets and chord charts, and the LP box includes an exclusive 12”x12” art print. Joe Strummer 002 serves as a loving tribute to Strummer’s final musical output, released in celebration of what would have been his 70th birthday year.

Tracklist:
LP 1:
Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
SIDE A
1. Tony Adams
2. Sandpaper Blues

SIDE B
1. X-Ray Style
2. Techno D-Day
3. The Road to Rock ’N’ Roll
 
SIDE C
1. Diggin’ The New
2. Nitcomb
3. Forbidden City
 
SIDE D
1. Yalla Yalla
2. Willesden To Cricklewood
 
LP 2:
Global A Go-Go
SIDE A
1. Johnny Appleseed
2. Cool ’N’ Out
3. Global A Go-Go
4. Bhindi Bhagee
 
SIDE B
1. Gamma Ray
2. Mega Bottle Ride
3. Shaktar Donetsk
 
SIDE C
1. Mondo Bongo
2. Bummed Out City
3. At The Border, Guy
 
SIDE D
1. Minstrel Boy
 
LP 3:
Streetcore
SIDE A
1. Coma Girl
2. Get Down Moses
3. Long Shadow
4. Arms Aloft
5. Ramshackle Day Parade
 
SIDE B
1. Redemption Song
2. All In A Day
3. Burnin’ Streets
4. Midnight Jam
5. Silver and Gold
 
LP 4:
Vibes Compass (B-sides & Rarities)
SIDE A
1. Time And The Tide
2. Techno D-Day (Demo)
3. Ocean Of Dreams
4. Forbidden City (Demo)
 
SIDE B
1. X-Ray Style (Demo)
2. Road To Rock ’N’ Roll (Demo)
3. Tony Adams (Demo)
4. Cool ’N’ Out (Demo)
 
SIDE C
1. Global A Go-Go (Demo)
2. Secret Agent Man
3. All in A Day (Demo)
4. London Is Burning
 
SIDE D
1. Get Down Moses (Outtake)
2. Fantastic
3. Coma Girl (Outtake)

Label: BMG
Released: 2022