12 February 2013

Joe Strummer "Walker" (OST) (1987)

Walker (soundtrack) [debut]
release date: 1987
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,86]
producer: Joe Strummer
label: Virgin Movie Music - nationality: England, UK

Studio debut album by Joe Strummer (former lead vocalist and songwriter of The Clash) is an Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to an Alex Cox film. The movie is an American-Mexican western featuring Ed Harris and Peter Boyle, and with Strummer in a minor part. The album is instrumental and suited for the film, and it's difficult to hear the Strummer who co-wrote all songs in The Clash, as the majority of the compositions have a heavy Mexican influence with horns, congas, bongos, timbales, marimbas, snare drums, violins. I mostly see this as a collector's item just because of Joe.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]