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Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions [CD+DVD, Colour, Box set]

Billy Bragg, Wilco Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (23 April 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: CD+DVD, Colour, Box set
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B0072X2NHQ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,950 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Walt Whitman's Niece (Lp Version)
2. California Stars (Lp Version) - Billy Bragg And Wilco
3. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (Lp Version)
4. Birds And Ships (Featuring Natalie Merchant) (Lp Version) - Billy Bragg & Wilco Featuring Natalie Merchant
5. Hoodoo Voodoo (Lp Version) - Billy Bragg And Wilco
See all 15 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Airline To Heaven
2. My Flying Saucer
3. Feed Of Man
4. Hot Rod Hotel
5. I Was Born
See all 15 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Bugeye Jim
2. When The Roses Bloom Again
3. Gotta Work
4. My Thirty Thousand
5. Ought To Be Satisfied Now
See all 17 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. All Aboard: Okfusgee Co., Oklahoma
2. The Homestead
3. First Stop: Pampa, Tx
4. Next Stop: California
5. Last Stop: The Big "Red" Apple
See all 14 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Product Description

A box set containing three albums of songs featuring lyrics by American folk musician, Woody Guthrie and music by the English singer/songwriter and the American alternative rockers. Includes the making of documentary 'Man in the Sand' on DVD and a 48-page booklet featuring lyrics, photographs and sketches.

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4CD .. Sessions // 3Cd+Dvd

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant words and music 28 April 2012
By J. H. Bretts VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is an absolutely fantastic collection of songs - Woody Guthrie lyrics stunningly set to music by Wilco and Billy Bragg. The first two discs were originally released over a decade ago, but the third is mainly material from the vaults that never made the original releases. That third disc is is no way inferior to the others, with tracks like Jolly Banker matching theirs for fine musicianship and trenchant lyrics. There is also a DVD of an absorbing documentary about Billy Bragg's search for the essence of Guthrie across the USA. With three CDs , a DVD and very useful booklet this collection is both amazingly good value for money and a brilliant display of song writing and sensitive playing. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Finding the key 24 Jun 2012
By Richard
Format:Audio CD
An ambitious project which began as a result of an accident when the daughter of Woody Guthrie (Nora)got in touch with Billy Bragg after listening to CDs of his music and invited him to set a recently discovered batch of her father's poetry which he'd never got around to adding music to.
Nora Guthrie's recording career had produced just one single (Emily's Illness) unlike her brother Arlo who began as a singer songwriter with a hit album called Alice's Restaurant before many others of mainly covers
Billy Bragg was the right man for the job as a writer of political songs.
Listen enough to these songs and first impressions are Bob Dylan as the most obvious influence.You hear snatches of Dylan songs throughout or Irish folk songs and its here that Bragg picked up on the idea of Dylan and Woody Guthrie before him using the melodies of earlier songs usually credited as "trad" before passing them off as their own work.
This set of songs lives within itself but many could have been hits in more normal times
The idea of finishing off songs by using contemporary artists to do it is a fairly recent phenomenon which began with The Lost Notebooks-Hank Williams songs finished by Bob Dylan,Jakob Dylan,Norah Jones,Jack White,Lucinda Williams,Levon Helm and Merle Haggard among the 12 artists
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4.0 out of 5 stars BRAGG AND BAND 21 Mar 2013
By del
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
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