Mermaid Avenue : the Complete Sessions

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Call Number: CD Folk Bragg Mermaid
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Words by Woody Guthrie; except When the roses bloom again by Will D. Cobb.
Disc 1 originally issued by Electra Records in 1998, disc 2 in 2000; DVD issued in 2001.
Subtitle from container; DVD subtitle from disc surface.
Compact disc accompanied by DVD.
Program notes by Nora Guthrie and lyrics ([44] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
DVD contains the film "Man in the sand : the making of Mermaid Avenue," feat. Woody Guthrie, Nora Guthrie, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Natalie Merchant, Corey Harris, with Arlo Guthrie.
[Disc 1], Mermaid Avenue, vol. I. Walt Whitman's niece / music, Billy Bragg (3:53) -- California stars / music, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy (4:57) -- Way over yonder in the minor key / music, Billy Bragg (4:06) -- Birds and ships / music, Billy Bragg (2:13) -- Hoodoo voodoo / music, Wilco, Billy Bragg, Corey Harris (3:12) -- She came along to me / music, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett (3:26) -- At my window sad and lonely / music, Jeff Tweedy (3:27) -- Ingrid Bergman / music, Billy Bragg (1:50) -- Christ for President / music, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett (2:39) -- I guess I planted / music, Billy Bragg (3:32) -- One by one / music, Jeff Tweedy (3:22) -- Eisler on the go / music, Billy Bragg (2:56) -- Hesitating beauty / music, Jeff Tweedy (3:04) -- Another man's done gone / music, Billy Bragg (1:34) -- The unwelcome guest / music, Billy Bragg (5:09) --
[Disc 2], Mermaid Avenue, vol. II. Airline to heaven / music, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy (4:50) -- My flying saucer / music, Billy Bragg (1:45) -- Feed of man / music, Jeff Tweedy (4:08) -- Hot Rod Hotel / music, Billy Bragg (3:17) -- I was born / music, Billy Bragg (1:50) -- Secret of the sea / music, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy (2:42) -- Stetson Kennedy / music, Billy Bragg (2:39) -- Remember the mountain bed / music, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett (6:26) -- Blood of the Lamb / music, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy (4:16) -- Against th' law / music, Billy Bragg (3:03) -- All you fascists / music, Billy Bragg (2:43) -- Joe DiMaggio done it again / music, Billy Bragg (2:31) -- Meanest man / music, Billy Bragg (3:46) -- Black wind blowing / music, Billy Bragg (3:00) -- Someday some morning sometime/ music, Jeff Tweedy (2:53) --
[Disc 3], Mermaid Avenue, vol. III. Bugeye Jim / music, Billy Bragg (3:13) -- When the roses bloom again / words, Will D. Cobb ; music, Jeff Tweedy (4:07) -- Gotta work / music, Corey Harris (2:12) -- My thirty thousand / music, Billy Bragg (2:37) -- Ought to be satisfied now / music, Billy Bragg (3:30) -- Listening to the wind that blows / music, Jeff Tweedy (5:04) -- Go down to the water / music, Billy Bragg (4:32) -- Chain of broken hearts / music, Jeff Tweedy (3:27) -- Jailcell blues / music, Billy Bragg (2:23) -- Don't you marry / music, Billy Bragg (3:14) -- Give me a nail / music, Billy Bragg (1:38) -- The jolly banker / words and music, Woody Guthrie (3:27) -- Union prayer / music, Billy Bragg (4:09) -- Be kind to the boy on the road / music, Billy Bragg (3:42) -- Ain'ta gonna grieve / music, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett (4:48) -- Tea bag blues / music, Corey Harris (4:00) -- I'm out to get / music, Billy Bragg (3:56).
Billy Bragg, vocals, guitars, bouzouki, tenor banjo, mandolin ; Wilco (Jeff Tweedy, vocals, guitars, harmonica, keyboards ; Jay Bennett, background vocals, guitars, keyboards, drums, bouzouki, bass, dulcimer, banjo, percussion, mandolin, harmonica ; John Stirrat, background vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass ; Ken Coomer, background vocals, drums, percussion, whistle ; Bob Egan, slide guitar, pedal steel) ; with Natalie Merchant, vocals ; Corey Harris, background vocals, guitar, lap steel ; Eliza Carthy, violin ; and additional musicians.
When American folk legend Woody Guthrie died in 1967 at the age of 55, he left behind a trove of more than one thousand sets of complete lyrics with no music. In 1995, his daughter Nora approached English singer-songwriter and activist Billy Bragg and about the possibility of bringing these unheard songs to life by setting them to new music. Wilco came aboard soon after, and in 1998 Mermaid Avenue was released to critical acclaim, receiving a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
DVD; widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo.

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