Bill Bragg & Wilco- Mermaid Avenue (Pt. 1)

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Bill Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue (Pt. 1)
1998

1. Walt Whitman’s Niece 0:00
2. California Stars 3:49
3. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key 8:45
4. Hoodoo Voodoo 12:51
5. She Came Along To Me 15:51
6. At My Window Sad & Lonely 19:13



Part One of ‘Mermaid Avenue’ (a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written & performed by British singer Billy Bragg & Wilco.
The project was the first of several such projects organized by Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie, original director of the Woody Guthrie Foundation & archives. ‘Mermaid Avenue’ was released on Elektra Records June 23, 1998. A second volume of recordings, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, followed in 2000 & both were collected in a box set alongside volume three in 2012 as Mermaid Avenue: ‘The Complete Sessions.’ The projects are named after the song "Mermaid's Avenue", written by Guthrie. This was also the name of the street in Coney Island, New York, which Guthrie lived. According to American Songwriter Magazine, "The Mermaid Avenue project is essential for showing that Woody Guthrie could illuminate what was going on inside of him as well as he could detail the plight of his fellow man". It was voted number 939 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000.)
‘Mermaid Avenue’ also made it onto Rolling Stone’s Top 100 Albums Of The 90s list.












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