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Boston Music Spotlight
Billy Bragg to play the Somerville Theatre
Boston Music Spotlight
Billy Bragg has revealed plans for a stateside tour. The English folk-punk rocker will make his way to Massachusetts and perform at the Somerville Theatre on Thursday, June 28. Tickets for the show are now on sale through the venue's box office and ...


 
Nonesuch Records
Woody Guthrie to Receive Pioneer Award at Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala
Nonesuch Records
On the acclaimed Mermaid Avenue albums, Billy Bragg and Wilco put music to lyrics by Guthrie for which he had not written music or made recordings; Nonesuch Records released Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions—the original two volumes, a third ...
Billy Bragg and Andy Irvine for Vicar Streethotpress.com (subscription)

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Sydney Morning Herald
Album Review: Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
Consequence of Sound
Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II are being re-issued, re-packaged, and ultimately melded together into a box set, with the added bonus of a documentary (Man in the Sand, highlighting the sessions) and the crème de le ...
The unsinkableSydney Morning Herald
Posted on 29 April 2012 by DorianNeon Filler

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ChristianityToday.com
Wednesday Video Spotlight: Billy Bragg returning to play centennial edition of ...
NewsOK.com (blog)
OKEMAH – After an absence of 14 years, Billy Bragg is returning to Oklahoma for a performance at the 15th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, which this year is celebrating Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday. Bragg was a headliner at the concert played on ...
Mermaid Avenue – The Complete SessionsTone Deaf
Woody Guthrie's God and CountryChristianityToday.com

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Chicago Reader
Emptying the vault: Billy Bragg and Wilco
Chicago Reader
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch) collects both of the albums Wilco made with Billy Bragg, where they set unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics to original music, along with a third disc of previously unissued songs from the same sessions.

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The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
Woody Guthrie celebrations abound
Chicago Sun-Times
Billy Bragg, who recorded the “Mermaid Avenue” albums with Chicago band Wilco — a project that spearheaded the recording of lost Guthrie songs plucked from the Woody Guthrie Archives — is touring with another nod to his posthumous collaboration.
Country music singer Catherine Britt invited to the Woody Gutherie Folk ...Herald Sun

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The West Australian
Bragg's Avenue of united dreams
The West Australian
One of the most unlikely yet fruitful collaborations began 15 years ago, when Nora Guthrie, daughter of seminal folk singer Woody Guthrie, recruited English folk-rocker Billy Bragg and American country rockers Wilco to put music to her father's lyrics.