Word: strummers
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Plus, you're in a band called the Fishmongers, which plays right into that image. Yes, the music itself is a pretty well-kept secret, and it's going to remain that way. I play guitar and piano. I'm just a strummer...
Somewhere, Joe Strummer must be smiling. Twenty-two years after the late guitarist and his band, the Clash, released the classic single Rock the Casbah, Franco-Algerian singer Rachid Taha has taken the title literally - with a cover of the 1982 hit that blends ringing electric guitars with Arab woodwinds and strings to give it a distinctively north African flavor. In a sense, Taha's take on Rock the Casbah on his new CD answers the provocative question posed by the title track, Tékitoi? (Who Are You?). "I'm a French rock 'n' roller with deep Arab roots...
...seen them play, so we were doing a Dylan song but it was the Matumbi version. did you think you would still be talking about london calling 25 years on? No. I'm pretty sure none of us did. A lot of it was to do with Joe [Strummer, the singer/co-writer who died in 2002] and that people liked our group; it reached them at a certain place that it stayed with them. At the time of London Calling we felt most dedicated to our work because we were so close and we'd built up that kind of playing...
Streetcore was put together from a set of recordings Strummer was working on in the months before he died, so it’s not always the most coherent collection of songs, but that’s part of it’s beauty: the album has personality beyond being just a collection of good songs. It has the makings of legend attached to it. And the songs are a goldmine...
...that is slick and shiny in contemporary music. The tinge of age in Strummer’s voice gives his lyrics a classiness and authority that can’t be bought or faked, particularly on folksy ballads like “Long Shadow.” Strummer even carries off a straight-up cover of “Redemption Song,” playing it as straight and simple as possible and letting the words and the weight of his voice speak for themselves. As the organ creeps in towards the end of the song, you realise...