In the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie’s daughter contacted Billy Bragg about composing music for her father’s prose–a staggering number of incomplete lyrics, penned from 1939 to 67, that were never ...
NORTH ADAMS — "The world needs all the Woody Guthrie it can get." “Mermaid Avenue Live,” the first-ever full-length concert of music from the acclaimed “Mermaid Avenue” songbook by Wilco and Billy ...
Between 1998 and 2012, Wilco and British troubadour Billy Bragg released three Mermaid Avenue albums inspired by a trunk of unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics uncovered by his family. However, beyond a ...