That's what The Clash's main man said in the 1990s, according to a wonderful valedictory story about the unique Irish-American band Black 47 in the New York Times on Friday.
Why would Joe Strummer say that about a relatively obscure regional band? Perhaps because of songs like this, about socialist labor leader and Easter Rising martyr James Connolly:
The chorus is:
My name is James Connolly I didn't come here to die but to fight for the rights of the working man small farmers too to protect the proletariat from the bosses and their screws so hold on to your rifles, boys don't give up your dream of a republic for the working class economic liberty The occasion of the NYT story was Black 47's retirement. Band leader Larry Kirwan is 66 (though he doesn't look it) and other band members are somewhat likewise.Even regional touring has, no douht, become old for them.
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