Showing posts with label Mermaid Avenue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mermaid Avenue. Show all posts

1 Mar 2012

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue 3 Tracklisting Announced

As previously mentioned, April 21 sees a box set release for Billy Bragg and Wilco's Complete Mermaid Avenue Sessions.

The previously released Volume's One & Two make up the first two discs of the package, with the Man In The Sand DVD making up Disc 4.

Nonesuch have now released the tracklisting for Disc 3, which contains a further 17 songs recorded during the sessions that resulted in Volume's One & Two.

01. Bugeye Jim
02. When The Roses Bloom Again
03. Gotta Work
04. My Thirty Thousand
05. Ought To Be Satisfied Now
06. Listening To The Wind That Blows
07. Go Down To The Water
08. Chain Of Broken Hearts
09. Jailcell Blues
10. Don’t You Marry
11. Give Me A Nail
12. The Jolly Banker
13. Union Prayer
14. Be Kind To The Boy On The Road
15. Ain’ta Gonna Grieve
16. Tea Bag Blues
17. I’m Out To Get

You Can Pre-order The Box Set Here

28 Feb 2012

Woody Guthrie's 100th Birthday Celebrations.

It's Woody Guthrie's 100th Birthday on the 14th of July this year and there are a number of significant releases lined up to celebrate his Centennial.


Billy Bragg and Wilco's Mermaid Avenue is set to be re-released as a 4 disc box set on the 21st of April, containing remastered editions of Volume 1 & 2, the previously unreleased Volume 3 featuring a further 17 tracks recorded during the same sessions, and the Man In The Sand DVD. Preorder here.

Due out on March 5 is New Multitudes, where My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Son Volt's Jay Farrar, Will Johnson and Anders Parker essentially do their own take on a Mermaid Avenue - previously unpublished Guthrie lyrics put to new music.
Preorder the deluxe edition here.
Preorder the standard edition here.


Out now is Note of Hope - a tribute to Woody's music featuring Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Tom Morello, Lou Reed ( without Metallica ), Michael Franti & Spearhead, Kurt Elling, Ani Difranco, Studs Terkel, Nellie McKay, Chris Whitley, Pete Seeger and Jackson Browne.
You can buy it here.

There's also a stand alone website for Woody's Centennial - visit it here to find out more.