Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue
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Artist: Billy Bragg & WilcoBrand: BRAGG,BILLY & WILCO
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-23
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Walt Whitman's Niece
- California Stars
- Way over Yonder in the Minor Key
- Birds and Ships
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- She Came Along to Me
- At My Window Sad and Lonely
- Ingrid Bergman
- Christ for President
- I Guess I Planted
- One by One
- Eisler on the Go
- Hesitating Beauty
- Another Man's Done Gone
- Unwelcome Guest
Music reviews of Mermaid Avenue
Music Review: Mermaid Avenue.....Billy Bragg & Wilco channeling Woody Guthrie
Rating: 5 Stars
The fact that these are songs written by Woody Guthrie in the twilight of his life, while institutionalized, but still prolifically creating, is a big draw. His grown daughter discovered these songs after he died, and recruited Billy Bragg to put them to music; Billy then enlisted Wilco to help bring them to life on an album, and now we get to enjoy this collaboration of three great artists of our time. "California Stars" and "Hoodoo Voodoo" are two especially addictive songs. This album is a must-have.
Description of Mermaid Avenue
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Media Type: CD
Artist: BRAGG,BILLY & WILCO
Title: MERMAID AVENUE
Street Release Date: 06/23/1998
Genre: ROCK/POP
A ghost, a band, a troubadour. Easily the strangest co-op project ever, and easily one of the finest and most evocative albums of the year. British socialist and folkie Billy Bragg was given unprecedented access to Woody Guthrie's unrecorded lyrics. Teaming up with alt-country band Wilco and quoting from more than 50 years of country, folk, and rock music, Billy and company bring Guthrie's politics, poetry, and morality to the end of the century and prove he's as necessary now as ever. --Tod Nelson
When you first heard that Billy Bragg and Wilco were teaming up to set some Woody Guthrie lyrics to music, you knew it'd be an interesting project. But did anyone realistically think Mermaid Avenue would also wind up being one of 1998's finest albums? That's exactly what it is, a distinction it pulls off by simultaneously honoring Guthrie and blasting away any folksy expectations we might have of his music. Walking Guthrie's World War II-era lyrics into the 20th century's second, rock & roll half, Bragg and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy take turns on lead vocals, and the entire group collaborates on a sound that draws on folk- and country-rock, from Bob Dylan and the Band to Gram Parsons and Uncle Tupelo. The results are nearly flawless, ranging from yearning laments and playful children's rockers to horny ballads and brave protest songs that are not merely political but also profoundly moral. Like all of Guthrie's work, Mermaid Avenue is music to live better by. --David Cantwell
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