Walker, Guitar Slinging Ranger

It’s All Acoustic. I thought let’s be 1850, nothing plugged in – Joe Strummer

Moving on past the past week of jazz posts, film scores is our next stop in a series of genre excursions.

First up is some music by Joe Strummer from Walker. The film I have not seen (that is actually the case with most of the scores & soundtracks I own and I kind of prefer it that way). The plot synopsis as provided from IMDB goes something like this, “William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d’etat. All is being financed by an
American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country." Sounds good doesn't it?

The score begins with something that sounds like the Sex and the City theme stirred up with a Spanish twist but things quickly improve. At times we have sweeping Morricone-eqse music and South American waltzes lead by Joe Strummer himself providing vocals. All in all this is the most un-Clash like music I could ever imagine Strummer making but it is good. If I'd never heard Strummer’s voice on the few tracks he appears on I would never in a million years guess that he had anything to do with this. It just goes to show that he had many, many talents, some vastly hidden inside the Clash music he made in his salad years. Like all of his music, Walker emphasizes that Joe Strummer was nothing if not the creator of beautiful music.


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