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Mermaid Avenue (The Complete Sessions)

Billy Bragg & Wilco

2012 · Rock, Folk, World, & Country

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Mermaid Avenue (The Complete Sessions) by Billy Bragg & Wilco

Mermaid Avenue (The Complete Sessions) is a Country album by Billy Bragg & Wilco, originally released in 2012. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.

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Tracklist

  1. 1-1Walt Whitman's Niece3:53
  2. 1-2California Stars4:57
  3. 1-3Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key4:06
  4. 1-4Birds And Ships2:13
  5. 1-5Hoodoo Voodoo3:12
  6. 1-6She Came Along To Me3:26
  7. 1-7At My Window Sad And Lonely3:27
  8. 1-8Ingrid Bergman1:50
  9. 1-9Christ For President2:32
  10. 1-10I Guess I Planted3:33
  11. 1-11One By One3:22
  12. 1-12Eisler On The Go2:56
  13. 1-13Hesitating Beauty3:04
  14. 1-14Another Man's Done Gone1:34
  15. 1-15The Unwelcome Guest5:09
  16. 2-1Airline To Heaven4:50
  17. 2-2My Flying Saucer1:45
  18. 2-3Feed Of Man4:08
  19. 2-4Hot Rod Hotel3:17
  20. 2-5I Was Born1:50
  21. 2-6Secret Of The Sea2:42
  22. 2-7Stetson Kennedy2:39
  23. 2-8Remember The Mountain Bed6:26
  24. 2-9Blood Of The Lamb4:16
  25. 2-10Aginst Th' Law3:03
  26. 2-11All You Fascists2:43
  27. 2-12Joe DiMaggio Done It Again2:31
  28. 2-13Meanest Man3:46
  29. 2-14Black Wind Blowing3:00
  30. 2-15Someday Some Morning Sometime2:53
  31. 3-1Bugeye Jim3:13
  32. 3-2When The Roses Bloom Again4:07
  33. 3-3Gotta Work2:12
  34. 3-4My Thirty Thousand2:37
  35. 3-5Ought To Be Satisfied Now3:30
  36. 3-6Listening To The Wind That Blows5:04
  37. 3-7Go Down To The Water4:32
  38. 3-8Chain Of Broken Hearts3:27
  39. 3-9Jailcell Blues2:23
  40. 3-10Don't You Marry3:14
  41. 3-11Give Me A Nail1:38
  42. 3-12The Jolly Banker3:27
  43. 3-13Union Prayer4:09
  44. 3-14Be Kind To The Boy On The Road3:42
  45. 3-15Ain'ta Gonna Grieve4:48
  46. 3-16Tea Bag Blues4:00
  47. 3-17I'm Out To Get3:56

Side DVD

  1. DVDDocumentary About The Making Of Mermaid Avenue

Sound DNA

  • Country
  • Americana & Roots
  • warm
  • earnest
  • storytelling

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Issued as a 5-panel foldout digifile containing a 48-page booklet with new liner notes, lyrics and credits.
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, which includes the original two volumes of Mermaid Avenue (the second re-mastered); a third volume with 17 previously unreleased recordings from those sessions; the 1999 documentary on the sessions, Man in the Sand.
Recorded at Totally Wired Studio, Dublin/ Windmill Lane, Dublin/ King Size Sound Laboratories, Chicago, IL/ Fort Apache Studio, Boston, MA
Mixed at Totally Wired Studio, Windmill Lane, King Size and Private Studios (Champaign, IL)
Track 3-12 recorded and mixed in 2009 at The Loft, Chicago, IL
Mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, ME

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Ben IvitskyMANDOLIN VIOLA
  • Billy BraggACOUSTIC GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS, BACKING VOCALS, HANDCLAPS
  • Bob EganPEDAL STEEL GUITAR RESONATOR GUITAR RESONATOR GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR
  • Corey HarrisACOUSTIC GUITAR, VOCALS BACKING VOCALS, HANDCLAPS ELECTRIC GUITAR
  • Eliza CarthyVIOLIN
  • Elizabeth SteenACCORDION
  • Glenn KotcheDRUMS, PERCUSSION
  • Jay Bennett12-STRING ACOUSTIC GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR , SHAKER, SAW, HANDCLAPS , BACKING VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR BANJO
  • Jeff Tweedy12-STRING ACOUSTIC GUITAR, VOCALS ACOUSTIC BASS, VOCALS ACOUSTIC GUITAR
  • John StirrattACOUSTIC BASS ACOUSTIC BASS, EFFECTS ACOUSTIC BASS, PEDALBOARD
  • Jonathan ParkerVOCALS
  • Ken CoomerDRUMS DRUMS, BACKING VOCALS, HANDCLAPS DRUMS, PERCUSSION
  • LeRoy BachPIANO
  • Leslie FeistPERCUSSION
  • Mikael JorgensenELECTRIC ORGAN , OTHER ORGAN , PERFORMER
  • Natalie MerchantBACKING VOCALS VOCALS
  • Nels ClineLAP STEEL GUITAR
  • Peter YanowitzDRUMS

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