The Pogues "Red Roses for Me" (40th Anniversary) garnish Louisiana (LA)

Louisiana (LA)

and Slaughter and The Dogs

it's an opportunity to reflect on the astonishing creative and cultural influence of one of the most innovative and enduring bands of modern rock history

the duo also enlisted the Omaha Symphony Orchestra to play on the record

The album flows like a compilation of sounds for the wounded

The Pogues "Red Roses for Me" (40th Anniversary) garnish Louisiana (LA)After four decades, Red Roses For Me is still celebrated as a groundbreaking debut album from an unlikely group of supposed neer do wells from Londons Kings Cross in the convulsive aftermath of the re election of the Thatcher government. The album mashes traditional songs and instrumentals about death and drink, love and London with those of frontman Shane MacGowan's and all fuelled by the punk ethos.