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...that kind of guy.” I like all kinds of music, absolutely, and I would get hopelessly bored if restricted in my listening habits. But there is some part of me that is forever looking out for a really good rock album. Cue Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros...
Discovering a really good new album offers many of the pleasures of exploring a new city or country, full of unknown history, odd geography and surprising characters. Streetcore is no exception: The final album by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, it is a ramshackle, raucous trip through Strummer’s wires. Alas, it is the last of its kind: at the end of 2002, several months before the album’s release, Joe Strummer, former frontman of punk originators The Clash, died of a heart attack. See what I mean about history...
...Strummer was born the song of a diplomat and spent his early childhood in Algeria, giving Strummer an enduring taste for internationally-tinged music. Rather than take up the sitar, though, Strummer founded The Clash, the greatest punk band to ever rule the earth. Because all good things must come to an end, The Clash broke up, but Strummer returned a few years ago with the Mescaleros, a band that allowed him to stretch his world music muscles a little more. So the thing about falling in love with a Strummer album is that it reminds you exactly...
...While Strummer seems to have mellowed since punk’s heyday, Streetcore remains, at heart, not all that different from anything The Clash released. He continues to struggle with themes of social responsibility and equality. And the combination of folk, reggae and punk that permeates the album can be traced all the way back to “Police and Thieves...
...touching ballad “Long Shadow.” Though written for Johnny Cash, the lyrics easily fit Strummer’s own life when he concludes, “somewhere in my soul / there’s always rock and roll.” Like Cash, Strummer will live on forever in his rightful place as a rock and roll icon...