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Mermaid avenue complete sessions vinyl.
The complete sessions is a 2012 box set album featuring the lyrics of american folk musician woody guthrie set to music by english folk rock guitarist billy bragg and american alternative rock band wilco.
Ii followed in 2000 and both were collected in a box set alongside volume three in 2012 as mermaid avenue.
This volume is filled with out takes from the mermaid avenue sessions.
The first album s success spurred mermaid avenue vol.
5 panel foldout digifile and a 48 page booklet with new liner notes by nora guthrie lyrics and credits.
All 17 tracks are worth your time though.
2012 compilation collects all 3 collaborative releases plus making of documentary with 44p booklet digipak sleeve.
Some of the tracks like bug eyed jim my thirty thousand and when the roses bloom were maid available on an ep years ago.
Now for the first time nonesuch releases the complete recordings from the project in one box set set.
A second volume of recordings mermaid avenue vol.
The complete sessions includes.
A third volume with 17 previously unreleased recordings from those sessions.
And this package adds in the unreleased more ragged final 17 tracks from the sessions including some non guthrie folk standards without dimming the charm of the original.
The projects are named after the song mermaid s avenue written by guthrie.
The complete sessions which includes the original two volumes of mermaid avenue the second re mastered.
The complete sessions which includes the original two volumes of mermaid avenue the second re mastered.
Referencing mermaid avenue the complete sessions 3xcd comp dvd v 7559 79626 0 the first one came out on vinyl when it was original released.
The 1999 documentary on the sessions man in the sand.
They are some of the stronger tracks on the album but there are still 14 tracks you ve never heard.
And a 48 page booklet with new liner notes by nora guthrie.
Ii followed in 2000 and together the two have sold more than 500 000 copies to date.
Cd1 1 walt whitman s niece cd1 10 i guess i planted cd1 11 one by one cd1 12 eisler on the go cd1 13 hesitating beauty cd1 14 another man s done gone cd1 15 the unwelcome guest cd1 2 california sta.