{"product_id":"billy-bragg-wilco-mermaid-avenue-the-complete-sessions-box-set-cd","title":"Billy Bragg \u0026 Wilco - Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions [Box Set] [CD]","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMore than thirty years ago, Nora Guthrie asked Billy Bragg to look at some unpublished lyrics of her father's. Woody Guthrie had left behind pages of songs with no melodies attached, and Bragg, joined by Wilco, wrote new music for words nobody had ever heard sung. The three Mermaid Avenue albums that followed between 1998 and 2012 reshaped Guthrie's legacy and became a touchstone of modern Americana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions gathers all of it. The first volume delivers \"California Stars,\" \"Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key,\" and \"Walt Whitman's Niece.\" Vol. II adds \"Airline to Heaven\" and \"Remember the Mountain Bed,\" and Vol. III brings \"When the Roses Bloom Again\" and \"The Jolly Banker.\" Together they reveal a Guthrie who was funny, romantic, political, and strange, often inside a single verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis edition goes further than any before it. A full disc of alternates and demos adds 16 previously unreleased recordings, including alternate versions of \"Aginst Th' Law\" and \"All You Fascists,\" solo takes of \"Hesitating Beauty\" and \"Airline to Heaven,\" and Woody Guthrie's own home tape of \"Hesitating Beauty.\" The year the set arrives, Bragg, Wilco, and Nora Guthrie reunited on stage at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival to play this music again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe deluxe 4CD set holds 65 tracks, one disc for each volume plus the disc of alternates and demos, presented in a 5.5-inch portfolio book with new liner notes by Bob Mehr. This is the complete Mermaid Avenue story in one place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AMS","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50586919141538,"sku":null,"price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/digfrontcomplete_a303f757-497c-462f-8bcc-07630a1102d1.png?v=1791501642","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/billy-bragg-wilco-mermaid-avenue-the-complete-sessions-box-set-cd","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}