The follow up to the self-titled debut, and the first with Topper Headon on drums. It was actually the first Clash album released in the US – the debut album did not get a US release until 1979.

“English Civil War” is a reworking of “Johnny Comes Marching Home” – the rest are all written by Jones and Strummer, with “Guns on the Roof” credited to the whole band.

The cover by Gene Greif is based on / inspired by Adrian Atwater’s End of the Trail (1953), via Hugh Brown’s painting End of the Trail for Capitalism which the Clash would have seen at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. (Hugh Brown gets credit for “cover concept” on the rear jacket.)

My copy, via Beverly Coin & Jewelry, is a later reissue based on the Epic labels (the original pressing would have the orange labels with white concentric rings -and also no barcode, which did not become common on LPs until the 80s). The font on US versions also changed multiple times as it was reissued.