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 | | While the album delivers consistently good music, each song is so different from its predecessor that even the most casual listener's attention is unlikely to wander. | | | Nominated for a Grammy as Best Contemporary Folk Album, Mermaid Avenue is a priceless example of Guthrie's achievement at the dawn of a new century. |
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| Â | BILLY BRAGG, "MERMAID AVENUE" |
| | Mermaid Avenue is released on the Eastwest album label this week. | | | Bragg infuses Guthrie's words with characteristic passion and, with 40 tracks recorded for the Mermaid Avenue sessions, there's talk of releasing a second Guthrie/Bragg album later on. | | | According to his daughter, Nora, only 10 per cent of his work was ever released: with the Mermaid Avenue Guthrie/Bragg album being released this week, a start has already been made on the remaining 90 per cent. |
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| Â | JAM!'s Billy Bragg Q & A |
| | I think "Mermaid Avenue" allowed him to be brought to centrestage and allowed journalists to begin the reassessment of his contribution to the music we listen to today, which I think, because of his influence on singers and songwriters, of which Bob Dylan was the prime example, he has had quite a staggering influence. | | | II." But based on the dates you included in the lyric book, it appears your contributions were recorded at the same time as the first "Mermaid Avenue" record. | | | When Nora Guthrie (who oversaw the "Mermaid Avenue" projects) came to the sessions, she was listening and basically whoever wrote the tune sang the song. |
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| Â | Mermaid Avenue Vol. II by Billy Bragg & Wilco (2000) |
| | The music that Bragg and Wilco have wrapped around the exquisite 15 sets of Guthrie lyrics is much more mature, cohesive and layered than its predecessor. | | | I if you haven't heard it yet, and if you love then come back to this one. |
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| Â | Mermaid Avenue: Billy Bragg mp3, tracks, CD, CD's, CDs, download, covers |
| | Mermaid Avenue: Billy Bragg mp3, tracks, CD, CD's, CDs, download, covers | | | The first time I listened to Mermaid Avenue, I was certain that I had heard this music before. | | | And with such interesting results -- there really is something here for all kinds of tastes: from the breadth of musical influences displayed [a bit of Dylan, Lennon, Garcia, the Band, it could on and on] to the lyrical content [from the personal to the political]. |
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| | Bragg's next project was to record a collection of Woody Guthrie songs for the album Mermaid Avenue. | | | Both Bragg and Wilco recorded enough material for a second album, Mermaid Avenue Volume II, which was released in 2000. | | | In 1998, Mermaid Avenue was released with Bragg contributing eight of the 15 tracks. |
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| Â | Bragg, Billy Mermaid Avenue CD at CD Universe |
| | MERMAID AVENUE was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. | | | MERMAID AVENUE is a collection of previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics exhumed from the Woody Guthrie Archives and set to music by Billy Bragg and Wilco at the invitation of Guthrie's daughter Nora. | | | Bragg, Billy Mermaid Avenue CD at CD Universe |
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| Â | All-Reviews.com Music Review: Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg and Wilco |
| | The music is always respectful and not jarringly anachronistic to the 40's traditionialism of Guthrie's words, yet the songs are still great 90's folk pop. | | | All-Reviews.com Music Review: Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg and Wilco | | | You could imagine that an album of songs set to previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics would be well made and serious--but who would have thought it would be so much fun! |
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| Â | Billy Bragg/Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol II Review |
| | The result was the original Mermaid Avenue, a wonderful album which was rightfully received with critical acclaim a few years ago. | | | Its an album with some diamonds but also a bit of coal. | | | The original sessions to that yielded many more songs than the original release and so a second volume was planned. |
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| | In 1998, the whole band worked with English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg on the acclaimed Mermaid Avenue project, adding music to lyrics bequeathed by American folk legend Woody Guthrie (a second volume was released two years later). | | | As he told Billboard magazine in 1996: "It was actually really healthy to understand what real life is about for the first time." The ever productive Tweedy also recorded two albums with Golden Smog, a side project involving, among others, members of the Jayhawks and Soul Asylum. | | | In contrast, the next Wilco release Summer Teeth was an album swimming in the lush pop sounds of synthesizers, mellotrons and brass. |
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| Â | VH1.com : Billy Bragg : Bragg, Wilco Breathe Life Into Woody Guthrie Lyrics For Mermaid Avenue |
| | Bragg and Wilco recorded 40 songs in all with a second album in mind in the hopes Mermaid Avenue and what follows will go a long ways toward humanizing Guthrie and encouraging fans to take a second look at the songwriter, Bragg said. | | | He was preparing to collaborate with modern folk-rockers Wilco on Mermaid Avenue, an album that would feature recently unearthed lyrics | | | Album by folkie and No Depression band brings music to American folk hero's words. |
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| Â | Stereophile: Recording of September 1998: Mermaid Avenue |
| | Mermaid Avenue —named for the street Guthrie lived on in Coney Island—was engendered by Woody's daughter Nora, who brought a trove of his unpublished lyrics to English political balladeer Bragg, who in turn enlisted the support of alt-country rockers Wilco, particularly the band's songwriters, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett. | | | Instead of a noble flop, which seemed the most likely outcome, Mermaid Avenue is one of the best things that Bragg, Wilco—and, yes, even Guthrie—has ever recorded. | | | The idea was to hit a horribly difficult trifecta: pay homage to Guthrie's spirit, create their own particular musical statements, and ultimately find a way to collaborate with a dead man. |
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| Â | Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II |
| | But let's not forget that these Mermaid Avenue albums are only made possible by the brilliant songwriting legacy of one named Woody Guthrie. | | | I, but they have, proving that the union of Wilco and Billy Bragg just might be one of the most outstanding musical projects in modern folk-rock history. |
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| Â | Popular Music and Society: Mermaid Avenue. - Review - sound recording reviews |
| | Tweedy and Wilco build the Mermaid Avenue songs around basic acoustic guitar-based arrangements, using subtle piano, clarinet, banjo, harmonica, steel guitar, bouzouki, organ, and fiddles to create musically varied yet spare-sounding songs. | | | Bragg describes Mermaid Avenue as "not a tribute album, but a collaboration." In this, he is right, though whether Woody himself would have chosen to collaborate with such an unlikely crew is--well--debatable. | | | Named for the street on which Woody Guthrie lived in Coney Island, New York, following World War II, this album is a collection of fifteen unpublished song lyrics of Guthrie's, brought to musical life by tunes and arrangements created and sung by Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy. |
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| Â | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 - Billy Bragg/Wilco at Epinions.com |
| | Ultimately, this philosophical quibble is of little relevance to the superior music found of Mermaid Avenue, Volume II, an album with a sound that is decidedly “timeless,” though not in the typical sense of that word. | | | While it may not contain any one song as beautiful and haunting as “Way Over Yonder in a Minor Key,” the songs here ultimately form a more cohesive album— an album that’s an absolute essential for any fan of folk, rock, country, and alternative music. | | | It’s one of the few instances when the lyrics of Mermaid Avenue, Volume II aren’t truthful: as the songs on this album attest, decades after his death, Woody Guthrie is a lyricist without peer. |
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| Â | Amazon.ca: Music: Mermaid Avenue |
| | Like all of Guthrie's work, Mermaid Avenue is music to live better by. | | | 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. | | | Look for albums like Mermaid Avenue by subject: |
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| Â | The Music Box: Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Volume I & II |
| | The Dylan-esque folk song Remember the Mountain Bed rolls gently over an acoustic guitar strum as the rest of the band gradually joins the rising musical sunrise. | | | Wilco, of course, have already showcased their newfound love of studio experimentation on their own recordings, and on Mermaid Avenue, Vol. | | | Of course, with bands like Wilco and Billy Bragg continuing to make not just great songs, but great albums -- today isn't so bad either. |
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| Â | Nude as the News: Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue |
| | It's hard to say exactly what Woody Guthrie would make of Mermaid Avenue, a collection of tunes written by Billy Bragg and Wilco, which are set to lyrics left behind by the late great folk hero. | | | Of course no album is perfect, "I Guess I Planted" is a pretty forgettable song. | | | On tracks like "One By One," "Eisler On The Go" and "The Unwelcome Guest," all parties involved (dead and alive) come together to create inspiring music. |
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| | Its loose, rolling pop fits Guthrie's lyrics flawlessly. | | | The record is cohesive--it doesn't seem like two songwriters worked on it as much as it seems like two songwriters worked together on it. | | | In all, over forty songs were recorded for Mermaid Avenue last winter in Dublin, Ireland. |
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| Â | Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue |
| | The result is not a tribute album but a collaboration between Woody Guthrie and a new generation of Songwriters who until now had only glimpsed him fleetingly, over the shoulders ob Bob Dylan oder somewhere in the distance of a Bruce Springsteen song. | | | Here he daydreamed about making love to Ingrid Bergman on the slopes of an Italian volcano and wondered himself what he would do if, like fellow left-wing songwriter Hanns Eisler, he was called before the House Committee of Un-American Activities. | | | > Folk Music > Records > Billy Bragg and Wilco: Mermaid Avenue |
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| Â | Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue - Volume II |
| | On 1998’s Mermaid Avenue British punk-folk singer Billy Bragg joined forces with roots rockers Wilco to put music to some of Woody Guthrie’s unheard lyrics and in the process revealed many new sides to the highly influential political folk singer and working class defender. | | | That record contained the lusty double entendres of "Ingrid Bergman," the playful children’s song "Hoodoo Voodoo," and nice love songs like "California Stars" and "Hesitating Beauty." Volume One was a critical and commercial success and earned a Grammy nomination. | | | Check out the band's web site at www.billybragg.com |
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| | After researching the lyrics at the Woody Guthrie Archive in New York City, Bragg worked with the band Wilco to record 40 tracks, a number of which were released on the album Mermaid Avenue, followed by Mermaid Avenue Vol. | | | It was during this period that he wrote and recorded Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child, a collection of children's music. | | | They moved into a house on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, and together had four children, including Cathy, who died at age four in a house fire, sending him into serious depression, and Arlo, who became a famous singer-songwriter in his own right. |
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| Â | Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue: Pitchfork Review |
| | Throughout the record, Wilco's music fits Guthrie's lyrics wonderfully and affords them a vibrancy which hasn't always been associated with Guthrie's music. | | | Wilco fans may surprised that Mermaid Avenue 's best moments come with the songs featuring Bragg on lead vocals. | | | Mermaid Avenue, named for the section of Coney Island where Guthrie lived, brings Guthrie's work to a generation who may have dismissed him as yet another post-war folkster with a message from another time and another place. |
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| Â | Country Standard Time: Country Music News |
| | Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder's "Bluegrass Rules" was best bluegrass album disc over "Home Sweet Home" by Doc and Merle Watson, "Songs from the Homeplace" by Jim & Jesse McReynolds, "American Beauty" from Nashville Bluegrass Band; and "Clinch Mountain Country" by Ralph Stanley & Friends. | | | Lucinda Williams won best contemporary folk album for "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road," while her' "Can't Let Go" was nominated was beat out by Alanis Morissette in the female rock category. | | | In the former category, Williams faced "Mermaid Avenue" by Billy Bragg and Wilco, "El Corazon" by Steve Earle, "Spyboy" by Emmylou Harris and "Step Inside This House" by Lyle Lovett. |
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| Â | BILLY BRAGG & WILCO: MERMAID AVENUE VOLUME 2 |
| | For further information, seek out Joe Klein's peerless biography "Woody Guthrie: A Life." | | | NOTES : In 1998, Bragg was invited to search through the vast archive of Woody Guthrie's unpublished and unheard lyrics and create a new body of songs. | | | BILLY BRAGG & WILCO: MERMAID AVENUE VOLUME 2 |
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| Â | Billy Bragg and Wilco — Mermaid Avenue Vol. II |
| | Mermaid Avenue Volume II continues the same inspiring interpretation of the folk legend’s lyrics set to music by Billy Bragg and Wilco. | | | Tense vocals and gritty folk guitars augment Guthrie’s political and average man stories. | | | One can only wish all covers were this inspiring. |
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| Â | Nude as the News: Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue Vol. II |
| | Anyway, it appears that Hollywood has invaded the music business because Wilco and Billy Bragg decided that one go-round of their critically-acclaimed, Grammy-nominated Mermaid Avenue wasn't enough. | | | And like most sequels, save "Superman II" and "Empire Strikes Back," this latest version of archived Woody Guthrie lyrics set to modern music doesn't quite match the intensity and uniqueness of its predecessor. | | | Hell, if the third installment breaks any records, they make a pre -quel! |
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| Â | Everything about Billy Bragg |
| | This official Billy Bragg live bootleg contains almost 50 minutes of live music recorded during the Mermaid Avenue Tour. | | | Somewhere between a live tape and a Peel Session, the album contains 12 songs recorded in performance and in the studio in October/November 1998. | | | Billy Bragg and The Blokes Mermaid Avenue Tour |
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| Â | Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (1998) |
| | They collectively brought alive the decades-old lyrics of Woody Guthrie in the album Mermaid Avenue that was nominated for a Grammy for the Folk Record of the Year! | | | When Bob Egan was with Wilco, they collaborated with Billy Bragg to work on this unique album. | | | BlueRodeo.com, Inc. 358 Danforth Avenue P.O. Box 65266 Toronto, ON Canada M4K 1N8 |
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| Â | VIA CHICAGO - Mermaid Avenue |
| | Mermaid Avenue Bonus EP Single Releases from Mermaid Avenue | | | She Came Along to Me - Import - August 17, 1999 - 63740 |
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| | "Mermaid Avenue" is so named because it was the street in Coney Island that uber-folkie Woody Guthrie lived on when he wrote the lyrics for most of these songs. | | | plug <> Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue | | | If it's got half as much to offer as its predecessor, it will be well worth the wait. |
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| Â | MTV.com - News - Articles - 1439928 - 20010223 |
| | Mermaid Avenue is the result, a 15-track effort that comes about as near as you can get to actually collaborating with a dead man. | | | Mermaid Avenue is named for the Coney Island street where Woody Guthrie lived with his family in the 1940s and '50s. | | | In turn, Bragg enlisted Wilco, maybe the single most vital Americana-rock outfit today, for assistance. |
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| Â | LoopDiLoop :: Billy Bragg and Wilco :: Mermaid Avenue |
| | What the Bard of barking has done with a brace of these tracks is to make the best Billy Bragg album since Worker's Playtime. | | | Ably aided and abetted by Jeff Tweedy's Wilco and with former Maniac Natalie Merchant guesting on one track, Mermaid Avenue is a delight and an ear opener to all who believed that pop had killed the political song. | | | From Walt Whitman's Niece through She Came Along, past Christ For President, Hoodoo Voodoo and ever onwards, Mermaid Avenue gives a new voice to some curiously contemporary lyrics. |
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| | Bragg, Billy - "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night" (The Internationale) | | | Bragg, Billy - "Hoodoo Voodoo" (Mermaid Avenue) Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) w/The Blokes w/Wilco | | | Bragg, Billy - "Meanest Man" (Mermaid Avenue Volume 2) elk 2000 Billy Bragg w/Wilco o-Woody Guthrie |
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| Â | jpc-Mediothek – Bragg,Billy & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue – Pop – CDs, DVDs, Spiele |
| | jpc-Mediothek – Bragg,Billy and Wilco: Mermaid Avenue – Pop – CDs, DVDs, Spiele | | | Airline to heaven; My flying saucer; Feed of man; Hot rod hotel; I was born; Secret of the sea; Stetson Kennedy; Remember the mountain bed; Blood of the lamb; Against th'law; All you facists; Joe Dimaggio done it again; Meanest man; Black wind blowing; Someday some morning | | | 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 Bergmann; Christ for President; I guess I planted; One by one; Eisler on the go; Hesitating beauty; Another man's done gone; The unwelcome guest |
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| | Billy Bragg Space Race Is Over The William Bloke It"s a Crazy Mixed up World Satisfy Me Billy Branch Valentine s Day Is Over wav classical music There Is Power In A Union Love Gets Dangerous There Is Power In A Union Mermaid Avenue Vol. | | | Billy Branch - c - l - i - c- k - - It"s a Crazy Mixed up World - Satisfy Me Billy Branch - c - l - i - c- k - - Heart in Your Life - Satisfy Me copyright wav file 60s music inc | | | Billy Bragg - c - l - i - c- k - - There Is Power In A Union - with The Pattersons Help Save The Youth Of America Live Dubious LIVE |
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