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Lead Performance: Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
The good news: The ex-Clash-man's comeback is far better than 1988's Earthquake Weather. The bad news: It's closer in spirit to the dub-inflected Sandinista! than to the snap and snarl of The Clash. Still, there are some catchy tunes (the tender ''Nitcomb''). And just hearing Strummer's distinctive rasp -- which sounds exactly the same all these years later -- is oddly heartening. B-
Posted Nov 26, 1999
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