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English

Mermaid Avenue The Complete Sessions (2012)
  
Star Wars (2015)

Release date
  
21 April 2012

Genre
  
Folk rock

Mermaid Avenue The Complete Sessions (2012)
  
Tooth & Nail (2013)

Artists
  
Billy Bragg, Wilco

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

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Released
  
April 21, 2012 (2012-04-21)

Recorded
  
Boston, Chicago, and Dublin

Producer
  
Billy Bragg, Grant Showbiz, Wilco

Similar
  
Billy Bragg albums, Folk rock albums

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Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions is a 2012 box set album featuring the lyrics of American folk musician Woody Guthrie set to music by English folk rock guitarist Billy Bragg and American alternative rock band Wilco. The set contains all the tracks from the previously released Mermaid Avenue (1998) and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000) as well as a third disc of outtakes from the original album sessions.

Contents

Nonesuch Records released the album for Record Store Day to commemorate Guthrie's 100th birthday. In addition to the three albums, the box set includes the documentary Man in the Sand about the making of the Mermaid Avenue project.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

The A.V. Club gave the box set an A−.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Woody Guthrie. Music by Billy Bragg and Wilco.

Volume 1
  1. "Walt Whitman's Niece" (Bragg) – 3:53
  2. "California Stars" (Tweedy / Bennett) – 4:57
  3. "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (Bragg) – 4:06
  4. "Birds and Ships" ft Natalie Merchant (Tweedy) – 2:13
  5. "Hoodoo Voodoo" (Tweedy / Bennett / Bragg / John Stirratt / Ken Coomer / Harris) – 3:12
  6. "She Came Along to Me" (Bragg / Tweedy / Bennett) – 3:26
  7. "At My Window Sad and Lonely" (Tweedy) – 3:27
  8. "Ingrid Bergman" (Bragg) – 1:50
  9. "Christ for President" (Bragg) – 2:39
  10. "I Guess I Planted" (Bragg) – 3:32
  11. "One by One" (Tweedy) – 3:22
  12. "Eisler on the Go" (Bragg) – 2:56
  13. "Hesitating Beauty" (Tweedy) – 3:04
  14. "Another Man's Done Gone" (Tweedy) – 1:34
  15. "The Unwelcome Guest" (Bragg) – 5:09
Volume 2
  1. "Airline to Heaven" – 4:50
  2. Words: Woody Guthrie 1939. Music: Jay Bennett and Jeff Tweedy 1997.
  3. "My Flying Saucer" – 1:45
  4. Words: Guthrie 1950. Music: Billy Bragg 1995.
  5. "Feed of Man" – 4:08
  6. Words: Guthrie. Music: Tweedy 1998
  7. "Hot Rod Hotel" – 3:17
  8. Words: Guthrie 1949. Music: Bragg 1996.
  9. "I Was Born"  – 1:50
  10. Words: Guthrie 1950. Music: Bragg 1996. Vocals: Natalie Merchant.
  11. "Secret of the Sea" – 2:42
  12. Words: Guthrie 1939. Music: Bennett/Tweedy 1999.
  13. "Stetson Kennedy" – 2:39
  14. Words: Guthrie 1950. Music: Bragg 1997.
  15. "Remember the Mountain Bed" – 6:26
  16. Words: Guthrie 1944. Music: Tweedy/Bennett 1999.
  17. "Blood of the Lamb" – 4:16
  18. Words: Guthrie 1955. Music: Tweedy/Bennett 1999.
  19. "Aginst th' Law" – 3:03
  20. Words: Guthrie 1947. Music: Bragg 1995.
  21. "All You Fascists" – 2:43
  22. Words: Guthrie 1942. Music: Bragg 1997.
  23. "Joe DiMaggio Done It Again" – 2:31
  24. Words: Guthrie 1949. Music: Bragg 1995.
  25. "Meanest Man" – 3:46
  26. Words: Guthrie 1945. Music: Bragg 1997.
  27. "Black Wind Blowing" – 3:00
  28. Words: Guthrie. Music: Bragg 1997.
  29. "Someday Some Morning Sometime" – 2:53
  30. Words: Guthrie 1948. Music: Tweedy 2000.
Volume 3
  1. "Bugeye Jim" – 3:18
  2. "When the Roses Bloom Again" – 4:11
  3. "Gotta Work" – 2:16
  4. "My Thirty Thousand" – 2:40
  5. "Ought to Be Satisfied Now" – 3:34
  6. "Listening to the Wind That Blows" – 5:07
  7. "Go Down to the Water" – 4:36
  8. "Chain of Broken Hearts" – 3:31
  9. "Jailcell Blues" – 2:28
  10. "Don't You Marry" – 3:18
  11. "Give Me a Nail" – 1:42
  12. "The Jolly Banker" – 3:31
  13. "Union Prayer" – 4:12
  14. "Be Kind to the Boy on the Road" – 3:46
  15. "Ain'ta Gonna Grieve" – 4:52
  16. "Tea Bag Blues" – 4:03
  17. "I'm Out to Get" – 3:58
Volume 4
  • Man in the Sand documentary

    • Personnel

  • Billy Bragg – guitar, vocals
  • Jay Bennett – organ, bouzouki, clavinet, piano, drums, background vocals
  • Ken Coomer – percussion, drums
  • Bob Egan – slide guitar
  • John Stirratt – piano, bass, background vocals
  • Jeff Tweedy – guitar, harmonica, vocals
    • Additional musicians
  • Corey Harris – guitar, lap steel guitar, vocals
  • Natalie Merchant – vocals
  • Peter Yanowitz – drums
  • Eliza Carthy – violin

    • Songs

    1Walt Whitman's Niece3:53
    2California Stars4:58
    3Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key4:06

    References

    Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions Wikipedia
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