Mermaid Avenue Complete Sessions 3cd/1dvd

Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, includes the original 1998 Mermaid Avenue album; the follow-up Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (re-mastered); Mermaid Avenue Vol. III, comprising 17 previously unreleased recordings made during the Mermaid Avenue sessions; director Kim Hopkins’ 1999 90 minute film Man in the Sand, which documents those sessions; and a 48-page booklet with new liner notes by Nora Guthrie, full lyrics, archival photographs, and facsimiles of lyric sheets and sketches by Woody Guthrie. (A complete track list is on the next page.)

The original Mermaid Avenue release sold many tens of thousands of copies in Australia, providing Bragg with an undoubted career highpoint, and breaking Wilco to a much larger audience than they’d previously had. The project has lost none of its lustre or appeal – original fans will want to upgrade, and there’s a whole new generation of Wilco lovers and Folk music lovers in general for whom this will be something exciting and new.

Disc 1

1. Walt Whitman's Niece
2. California Stars
3. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
4. Birds and Ships
5. Hoodoo Voodoo
6. She Came Along to Me
7. At My Window Sad and Lonely
8. Ingrid Bergman
9. Christ for President
10. I Guess I Planted
11. One by One
12. Eisler on the Go
13. Hesitating Beauty
14. Another Man's Done Gone
15. The Unwelcome Guest

Disk 2

1. Airline to Heaven
2. My Flying Saucer
3. Feed of Man
4. Hot Rod Hotel
5. I Was Born
6. Secret of the Sea
7. Stetson Kennedy
8. Remember the Mountain Bed
9. Blood of the Lamb
10. Aginst th' Law
11. All You Fascists
12. Joe Dimaggio Done It Again
13. Meanest Man
14. Black Wind Blowing
15. Someday Some Morning Sometime

Disk 3

1. Bugeye Jim
2. When the Roses Bloom Again
3. Gotta Work
4. My Thirty Thousand
5. Ought to Be Satisfied Now
6. Listening to the Wind That Blows
7. Go Down to the Water
8. Chain of Broken Hearts
9. Jailcell Blues
10. Don't You Marry
11. Give Me a Nail
12. The Jolly Banker
13. Union Prayer
14. Be Kind to the Boy on the Road
15. Ain'ta Gonna Grieve
16. Tea Bag Blues
17. I'm Out to Get