To celebrate what would have been the legendary Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, the good folk over at Nonesuch have decided to release a special deluxe edition of Mermaid Avenue containing volumes one and two, along with a DVD of the doco Man in the Sand, plus a bonus disc with 17 tracks recorded in those sessions, which until now have remained unreleased. There’s also a 48-page booklet with new liner notes by Nora Guthrie, lyrics, archival photographs, and facsimiles of lyric sheets and sketches by Woody Guthrie. Very nice indeed!

Melissa Whebell is from Readings Hawthorn