Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years
Compilation album by
ReleasedAugust 21, 2012
GenreAlternative rock. punk rock, reggae, folk
LabelHellCat
ProducerAntony Genn, Richard Norris, Scott Shields, Martin Slattery, Joe Strummer, Rick Rubin, Danny Saber, Richard Flack
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros chronology
Streetcore
(2003)
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years
(2012)
Live at Acton Town Hall
(2012)

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years is a MP3 digital download album consisting of the entire remastered catalog of music that was recorded by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros during their tenure with Hellcat Records from 1999 to 2003.

The 57 song set was released to celebrate what would have been Strummer's 60th birthday. The set features all three of the group's studio albums along with various B-sides and the entire November 2002 concert titled Live at Acton Town Hall which features one of Strummer's final performances before his death a month later.