Global a Go-Go by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

Global a Go-Go, the second album from Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, came out on Hellcat in July 2001, and it finds the old Clash firebrand roaming the world without ever leaving the corner pub. The title nods to Strummer's radio show on the BBC World Service, and the music travels the same way, soaking up world music, acoustic folk and reggae, with a Mescaleros lineup that included Tymon Dogg, Scott Shields and Martin Slattery.

"Johnny Appleseed" opens the record and was its only single, a loping, big-hearted singalong that later became the theme to John from Cincinnati. "Bhindi Bhagee" is a warm salute to the mixed-up, multicultural streets of London and cities like it, Roger Daltrey chips in backing vocals on the title track, and the record closes with "Minstrel Boy", a traditional Irish tune stretched into an instrumental of almost 18 minutes. The left-wing fire is still there too. Critics and fans took to it far more than they had to Rock Art and the X-Ray Style.

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