Mermaid Avenue / Billy Bragg & Wilco.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Bragg, Billy, performer.

Contributor:

Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967, lyricist.

Merchant, Natalie, performer.

Harris, Corey, performer.

Wilco (Musical group), performer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk songs, English--United States.

Folk songs, English.

United States.

Ballads, English--United States.

Ballads, English.

Folk-rock music.

Genre:

Folk-rock music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (50 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

New York : Elektra, [1998]

System Details:

analog optical 1.4 m. per second stereo Digital recording

audio file CD audio

Summary:

"Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island is where Woody Guthrie lived with his family in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Here he wrote hundreds of songs which he never recorded. When he died he left only the lyrics. Billy Bragg and Wilco have written new tunes to these songs."--Shrink wrap.

Contents:

Walt Whitman's niece (3:53)

California stars (4:57)

Way over yonder in the minor key (4:06)

Birds and ships (2:13)

Hoodoo voodoo (3:12)

She came along to me (3:26)

At my window sad and lonely (3:27)

Ingrid Bergman (1:50)

Christ for president (2:39)

I guess I planted (3:32)

One by one (3:22)

Eisler on the go (2:56)

Hesitating beauty (3:04)

Another man's done gone (1:34)

The unwelcome guest (5:09).

Participant:

Folk and rock songs; Billy Bragg, vocals, guitars ; Wilco ; guests, Natalie Merchant, vocals ; Corey Harris, guitars.

Credits:

Produced by Billy Bragg and Wilco with Grant Showbiz.

Notes:

Words by Woody Guthrie, music composed chiefly by Billy Bragg.

Recorded at Totally Wired and Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, King Size Sound Laboratories, Chicago, and Fort Apache Studio, Boston.

Compact disc.

Lyrics, notes and credits on insert.

OCLC:

39366327

Publisher Number:

075596220422

62204-2 Elektra

D 125708 BMG Direct