A new 32-track double album of Joe Strummer's music is due out this September and will feature recordings by the 101'ers and the Mescaleros, with solo material also included.
Supervised by the musician's widow, Lucinda Tait, Joe Strummer 001 also includes 12 previously unreleased songs by the former Clash frontman, who died in December 2002.
According to The Guardian, Grammy winner Peter J Moore has collaborated with Tait on the project. Moore discovered the hidden tracks in Strummer’s archives, and learned that the songwriter would frequently leave 20 minutes between songs on his cassettes and also "superimpose" tracks on to eight-track recordings, which Moore separated and made into coherent units.
The release features a demo of The Clash’s 1985 song This Is England titled Czechoslovak Song/Where Is England, along with a solo demo of Letsagetabitarockin recorded in 1975 in Maida Vale where Strummer squatted with his early band 101’ers.
Outtakes from the Sid & Nancy score feature Clash guitarist Mick Jones and unreleased songs include Rose of Erin, The Cool Impossible and London Is Burning, one of Strummer’s final recordings.
What has been described as Strummer’s `library of work' was discovered after his death and and there are some 20,000 items in the Joe Strummer Archive.
He even kept writings and tapes in the garden of his house. A hardback book will accompany the new double album release featuring unpublished memorabilia, along with reviews and technical data about the recordings.
Joe Strummer 001 will be released on 28 September on Ignition.
