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Joe Strummer Before The Clash: The 101'ers

Fresh Air | By Milo Miles

Published July 31, 2005 at 9:00 PM PDT

Music critic Milo Miles tells us about Joe Strummer's pre-Clash band, The 101'ers. Strummer went on to fame as the lead singer of the seminal punk band The Clash. Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited is the reissued 101'ers album in stores now.

Copyright 2005 Fresh Air

Milo Miles

Milo Miles is Fresh Air's world-music and American-roots music critic. He is a former music editor of The Boston Phoenix.

See stories by Milo Miles