Hard to believe The Clash's Joe Strummer has been gone 20 years... and mind blowing to think he would only be 70 (on August 21) if he were still alive!
"Long Shadow" is a song Joe wrote for Johnny Cash but Cash died before he had the chance to record it. Joe later recorded it, and Eddie Vedder has just released this cool cover.
It's all part of the celebrations for what would have been Joe's 70th, as is a new compilation from Joe's Hellcat Records years. Hellcat, founded by Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid) provided a warm home for Strummer and the Mescaleros in the 90s.
Joe's post-Clash catalogue is now administered by Dark Horse Records, a label founded by George Harrison (The Beatles) and recently relaunched by his son Dhani Harrison. The collection, called Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, contains selections from the Mescalero three studio albums, as well as several outtakes and alternate takes, such as this previously unreleased song, "Fantastic":
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