New Joe Strummer Solo Box Set ‘001’ Includes Rare & Unreleased Recordings

Late beloved rocker Joe Strummer’s work outside of fronting The Clash will be collected in a compilation for the first time. The box set Joe Strummer 001 will be issued by Ignition Records on September 28 featuring Strummer’s backing bands The 101ers and The Mescaleros, each of his solo albums, as well as soundtrack work and an entire new album of previously unreleased songs.

Following his death in 2002 at the age of just 50, a massive trove of Strummers’ personal archive of recordings was discovered in “barns full of writings and tapes stored in his back garden.” Strummer’s widow Luce Strummer and Robert Gordon McHarg III oversaw the archiving and compiling of the Joe Strummer 001 project. Acclaimed engineer Peter J. Moore remastered each of the tracks in the collection at the E. Room in Toronto. During Moore’s restoration he made a curious discovery:

On going through cassettes and recording tapes it was discovered that Joe was rather frugal and keen on hiding tracks. On cassettes he would leave 20 minutes between songs. On the 1″ 8 track recordings it was discovered there were hidden tracks superimposed onto each other. For example tracks 1-4 were taken by one song and tracks 5-8 by two other songs which were thought when played back to be caused by tape denigration until the tapes went to Peter J. Moore who was able to separate one song from another.

Offered in a variety of editions and formats, each Joe Strummer 001 release comes with an album of never-before-heard recordings including early demos of “This Is England” (entitled “Czechoslovak Song/Where Is England”) and “Letsagetabitarockin” (recorded in Elgin Avenue in 1975), along with outtakes from Sid & Nancy featuring The Clash’s Mick Jones and unreleased songs “Rose Of Erin,” “The Cool Impossible” and one of Strummer’s final recordings “London Is Burning” (an alternative/early version of “Burnin’ Street” from Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros’ last album Streetcore).

Head here to pre-order and stream “London Is Burning” below:

1. Letsagetabitarockin (2005 Remastered Version) – The 101ers
2. Keys To Your Heart (Version 2) [2005 Remastered Version] – The 101ers
3. Love Kills
4. Tennessee Rain
5. Trash City – Joe Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War
6. 15th Brigade
7. Ride Your Donkey
8. Burning Lights
9. Afro-Cuban Be-Bop – The Astro-Physicians
10. Sandpaper Blues – Radar
11. Generations – Electric Dog House
12. It’s a Rockin’ World
13. Yalla Yalla -Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
14. X-Ray Style – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
15. Johnny Appleseed – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
16. Minstrel Boy – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
17. Redemption Song – Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash
18. Over the Border – Joe Strummer & Jimmy Cliff
19. Coma Girl- Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
20. Silver & Gold / Before I Grow Too Old – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
21. Letsagetabitarockin’
22. Czechoslovak Song / Where is England – Strummer, Simonon & Howard
23. Pouring Rain (1984) – Strummer, Simonon & Howard
24. Blues On the River
25. Crying On 23rd – The Soothsayers
26. 2 Bullets – Pearl Harbour
27. When Pigs Fly
28. Pouring Rain (1993)
29. Rose of Erin
30. The Cool Impossible
31. London Is Burning – Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
32. U.S. North – Joe Strummer & Mick Jones