Postuum album van
Joe Strummer bijna klaar
Het studio album waaraan Joe Strummer (ooit The Clash en The Pogues) met zijn band Mescaleros werkte toen hij eind december aan een hartaanval overleed, is bijna klaar. De band denkt dat de cd, waarvan de titel nog niet bekend is, over zes weken gereed is.
Op de eigen website zegt de band:
"We're at the finishing stages. Any overdubs that need doing, any backing vocals that need doing, any bits of anything in any of the tracks that need doing to kinda finish it off. That's the hardest bit, because up until now we were just putting stuff down to see what works. Now we've got to decide what works and what doesn't."
Het album zal 11 nummers bevatten waaronder enkele uit nog niet eerder uitgebrachte sessies. De site hierover:
"These will include two Joe did in America, one was for Johnny Cash with Rick Rubens and the other one is with Danny Saber, we haven't heard that one for a long time. We hope to finish it within the next six weeks - mid March. We were quite chuffed when we realised after Christmas that we had enough material. We were a bit unsure really whether we hadn't done enough. There are 3 or 4 tracks that were really great numbers that Joe never sang on".
De Mescaleros zullen rond de release van het nieuwe album niet op tournee gaan.