Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue - 50m 10s

Tracks & Durations

1. Walt Whitman's Niece	3:55
2. California Stars	5:00
3. Way over Yonder in the Minor Key	4:08
4. Birds and Ships	2:17
5. Hoodoo Voodoo	3:14
6. She Came Along to Me	3:30
7. At My Window Sad and Lonely	3:29
8. Ingrid Bergman	1:52
9. Christ For President	2:44
10. I Guess I Planted	3:35
11. One by One	3:27
12. Eisler on the Go	2:59
13. Hesitating Beauty	3:07
14. Another Man's Done Gone	1:38
15. The Unwelcome Guest	5:05

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Review

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 NelsonWhen 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

Other Versions

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Mermaid Avenue

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 50m 11s (+0m 1s)

Mermaid Avenue

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 49m 42s (-1m 32s)

Mermaid Avenue

Tracks: 15, Disk length: 49m 42s (-1m 32s)

Mermaid Avenue

Tracks: 16 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 52m 46s (+2m 36s)

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