Johnny Money & The Conflict’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Music” (2002)

In 1958, Mer­le Hag­gard noticed John­new york Money play in San Quentin, and went directly to sing hon­est coun­check out songs for coun­check out­rules. In 1982, long term Rage In opposition to the Gadget gui­tarist Tom Morel­lo noticed Joe Strum­mer play with The Conflict in Chica­move and went directly to play offended proper­eous rock for offended punks. Each Money and Strum­mer, who died lower than a 12 months aside, had been musi­cal prophets of their manner, inspir­ing oth­ers to pick out up their mes­sage and automobile­ry it to the com­mon fan. The similar, in fact, might be stated of Bob Mar­ley. And even though the ones 3 would love­ly have dif­fer­ent def­i­n­i­tions of the phrase “redemp­tion,” they shared a trust in song as a power for just right.

Simply above, pay attention Money and Strum­mer sing Marley’s “Redemp­tion Music,” with Morel­lo on gui­tar. Report­ed dur­ing the ses­sions for Money’s ultimate album, the Rick Rubin-pro­duced Amer­i­can IV: The Guy Comes Round, the duet hap­pened kind of by accident.

Says Rubin, “Joe used to be com­ing on a daily basis, as a result of he liked John­new york Money, and he simply hap­pened to be in L.A. on vaca­tion. And he actu­al­ly prolong­ed his travel per week longer simply to come back on a daily basis and be round John­new york.” Rubin additionally report­ed a solo take of Strum­mer making a song “Redemp­tion Music” (underneath), which gave the impression on Strum­mer’s ultimate album, the posthu­mous­ly launched Boulevard­core.

“Orig­i­nal­ly, the track used to be sup­posed to be a duet, and we report­ed it as a duet,” Rubin con­tin­ues, “However, simply in case, each John­new york and Joe sang the entire track sev­er­al instances” on their very own. The duet ver­sion seems at the 3rd disc, titled Redemp­tion Songs, of the launched Money field set Unearthed, which fea­tures out­takes and change­nates from the Rubin-pro­duced Amer­i­can Report­ings sequence of Money cov­er songs. Turns out have compatibility­ting some­how that some of the ultimate songs each Strum­mer and Money would report could be this one, and that they’d sing it togeth­er. As one website online suc­cinct­ly put it, the report­ing rep­re­sents “the primary true punk rock superstar and the ultimate. Togeth­er for­ev­er.”

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