Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

Tracklist

• CD 1: Mermaid Avenue
• 1
  Walt Whitman’s Niece
  3:53
  4.0 ★
• 2
  California Stars
  4:58
  4.8 ★
• 3
  Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
  4:06
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Birds and Ships

  Billy Bragg feat. Natalie Merchant
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Hoodoo Voodoo
  3:12
  4.5 ★
• 6
  She Came Along to Me
  3:28
  3.6 ★
• 7
  At My Window Sad and Lonely
  3:27
  3.4 ★
• 8
  Ingrid Bergman
  1:50
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Christ for President
  2:42
  3.4 ★
• 10
  I Guess I Planted
  3:33
  3.6 ★
• 11
  One by One
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Eisler on the Go
  2:57
  3.6 ★
• 13
  Hesitating Beauty
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Another Man’s Done Gone
  1:36
  3.6 ★
• 15
  The Unwelcome Guest
  5:05
  3.6 ★
• CD 2: Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II
• 1
  Airline to Heaven
  4:50
  4.5 ★
• 2
  My Flying Saucer
  1:45
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Feed of Man
  4:08
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Hot Rod Hotel
  3:17
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Was Born
  1:50
  3.6 ★
• 6
  Secret of the Sea
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Stetson Kennedy
  2:40
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Remember the Mountain Bed
  6:26
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Blood of the Lamb
  4:16
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Aginst th’ Law
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 11
  All You Fascists
  2:43
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Meanest Man
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Black Wind Blowing
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Someday Some Morning Sometime
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• CD 3: Mermaid Avenue, Vol. III
• 1
  Bugeye Jim
  3:17
• 2
  When the Roses Bloom Again
  4:10
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Gotta Work
  2:16
• 4
  My Thirty Thousand
  2:39
• 5
  Ought to Be Satisfied Now
  3:34
• 6
  Listening to the Wind That Blows
  5:07
• 7
  Go Down to the Water
  4:35
• 8
  Chain of Broken Hearts
  3:30
• 9
  Jailcell Blues
  2:27
• 10
  Don’t You Marry
  3:18
• 11
  Give Me a Nail
  1:42
• 12
  The Jolly Banker
  3:30
• 13
  Union Prayer
  4:11
• 14
  Be Kind to the Boy on the Road
  3:46
• 15
  Ain’ta Gonna Grieve
  4:51
• 16
  Tea Bag Blues
  4:03
• 17
  I’m Out to Get
  3:58
• DVD-Video 4: Man in the Sand (documentary)
• 1
  Man in the Sand: All Aboard: Okfusgee Co., Oklahoma (Way Over Yonder in Minor Key)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg
  4:15
• 2
  Man in the Sand: The Homestead (I Ain't Got No Home / This Land Is Your Land)

  [dialogue] with Billy Bragg & by Nora Guthrie; music by Woody Guthrie
  7:38
• 3
  Man in the Sand: First Stop: Pampa, TX

  [dialogue] with Billy Bragg & by Nora Guthrie
  1:36
• 4
  Man in the Sand: Next Stop: California (California Stars / This Land Is Your Land)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett / Arlo Guthrie / Billy Bragg
  5:40
• 5
  Man in the Sand: Last Stop: The Big "Red" Apple (Here Comes the Train / Ingrid Bergman)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Corey Harris / Billy Bragg
  5:09
• 6
  Man in the Sand: The Political Stage (There Is Power in a Union / Ideology)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg
  2:39
• 7
  Man in the Sand: Barking, Essex (Between the Wars)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg
  2:32
• 8
  Man in the Sand: More Than Scraps of Paper (She Came Along to Me)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett
  6:25
• 9
  Man in the Sand: Chicago: Rehearsals with Wilco (Go Down to the Water / Feed of Man / Birds and Ships / All You Fascists Bound to Lose / When the Roses Bloom Again)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett
  10:26
• 10
  Man in the Sand: Dublin: Recording the Album (The Unwelcome Guest / At My Window Sad and Lonely)

  [dialogue] by Peter Jenner, Nora Guthrie; music by Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy
  6:18
• 11
  Man in the Sand: Boston with Natalie Merchant (I Was Born / Birds and Ships / Way Over Yonder in Minor Key / Ingrid Bergman)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Natalie Merchant, Billy Bragg
  11:17
• 12
  Man in the Sand: Woody Says So Long (At My Window Sad and Lonely / Another Man's Done Gone)

  [dialogue] by Nora Guthrie; music by Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett
  10:15
• 13
  Man in the Sand: London: Cutting the Album (Hoodoo Voodoo)

  [dialogue] by Grant Showbiz, Peter Jenner; music by Jeff Tweedy, Jay Bennett, Billy Bragg, John Stirratt, Ken Coomer
  11:23
• 14
  Man in the Sand: [credits] (Go Down to the Water)

  Billy Bragg
  1:52

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Release credits

• Ben Ivitsky
  mandolin [12], viola [4, 13]
• Billy Bragg
  acoustic guitar [1.1-4, 1.8, 1.10, 1.15, 2.2, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 3.9], background vocals [1.7, 3.16], banjo [12], bouzouki [7], electric guitar [3.5, 3.11, 3.14, 3.17, 2.4, 2.10-11, 1.5, 1.13], guitar [3.2, 3.4, 1.9, 1.12], handclaps [10], lead vocals [2.2, 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.15], mandolin [15], producer [3.1-11, 3.13-17, 1.8, 2.2], resonator guitar [2.3, 2.13-14, 3.1, 3.10], tenor banjo [7, 13], vocal [2.4, 2.7, 2.11, 2.13-14, 3.1, 3.4-5, 3.7, 3.9-11, 3.13-14, 3.17]
• Bob Egan
  pedal steel guitar [1.11, 1.15, 3.2], resonator guitar [10], slide guitar [6]
• Bob Ludwig
  mastering
• Corey Harris
  acoustic guitar [3.3, 3.16, 2.10], background vocals [10], electric guitar [3.17, 1.5], guest [5, 10], guitar [15], handclaps [10], lap steel guitar [1.2, 3.2, 3.11], lead vocals [10], vocal [3, 16]
• Eliza Carthy
  violin [3.4, 3.7, 3.13, 1.2-3, 2.12]
• Elizabeth Steen
  accordion [3]
• Evan Gaffney
  design
• Glenn Kotche
  drums (drum set) [12], membranophone [12], percussion [12]
• Grant Showbiz
  additional [1-11, 13-17], producer [1.8, 2.2]
• Jason Tobias
  additional [12]
• Jay Bennett
  Appalachian dulcimer [7], Hammond organ [1.3, 1.7, 1.10, 3.15, 2.3, 2.9, 2.13], acoustic guitar [2.2, 2.6, 2.12, 1.6, 3.9], background vocals [3.4, 2.1, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.12, 1.1-2, 1.6-7, 1.10, 1.13], banjo [3.4, 3.8, 3.17, 1.9, 2.10, 2.12], baritone guitar [2, 6], bass pedals [15], bell [15], bouzouki [3], classical guitar [8], clavinet [1, 9], double bass [15], drums (drum set) [1], electric bass guitar [6], electric guitar [2.2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 1.13], electric sitar [6], farfisa [1.1, 1.5, 2.4, 2.9], grand piano [14-15], guitar [2.3, 3.17], handclaps [1.10, 2.1], harmonica [2.11, 3.8], keyboard [2, 6, 11], mandolin [3.8, 3.17, 2.4], melodica [3.4, 1.12, 1.15], membranophone [15], musical saw [1], organ [1.11, 2.6, 2.8, 3.14], percussion [12], piano [2.6, 2.9, 1.1-2, 1.9-13, 3.11, 3.15], shakers [1], slide guitar [1.6, 2.1, 2.6, 2.11], solo [7, 12], tambourine [6]
• Jeff Tweedy
  12 string guitar [3.11, 2.6], Wurlitzer electric piano [15], acoustic guitar [1.2, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.15, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8-9, 2.12, 2.15, 3.3, 3.8-9, 3.11-12, 3.15, 3.17], background vocals [1, 10, 15], cabasa [2], electric guitar [2.3, 2.11, 2.13, 1.1, 1.10, 3.14-15], guitar [2, 6], handclaps [1.10, 2.1], harmonica [1, 6, 15], lead vocals [1.2, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13-14, 2.1, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.12], mandolin [10], mellotron [1], slide guitar [9], vocal [2.3, 2.15, 3.2, 3.6, 3.8, 3.12, 3.15]
• Jerry Boys
  engineer [2.2, 1.8]
• Jim Scott
  mix [12], recording [12]
• John Stirratt
  Hammond organ [6], acoustic bass guitar [1, 9], acoustic guitar [6], background vocals [1.1-2, 1.7, 1.10, 2.1, 2.6, 2.8, 2.12], baritone guitar [13], bass [2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14, 17], bass guitar [2.3, 2.6-8, 2.10-11, 3.12], bass pedals [9], double bass [9, 12], electric bass guitar [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.15, 2.2, 2.4, 2.13], guitar [2], handclaps [1.10, 2.1], piano [5]
• Jonathan “JP” Parker
  background vocals [1]
• Ken Coomer
  background vocals [1.1, 1.10, 2.12], drums (drum set) [1.1-3, 1.5-7, 1.9-11, 1.13, 1.15, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.9, 3.11, 3.14, 3.17], guest [2], handclaps [10], membranophone [2.3-4, 2.6-11, 2.13, 3.15], percussion [3.8, 2.12, 1.1-3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12], tambourine [2], whistle [11]
• Leroy Bach
  piano [8]
• Leslie Feist
  other instruments [12], percussion [12]
• Mikael Jorgensen
  Hammond organ [12], effects [12], other instruments [12]
• Natalie Merchant
  background vocals [3], guest [3-4], lead vocals [4], performer [4], vocal [5]
• Nels Cline
  lap steel guitar [12]
• Nora Guthrie
  executive, liner notes
• Pat Sansone
  harpsichord [12]
• Peter Yanowitz
  membranophone [3]
• Wilco
  producer [2.2, 1.8, 3.1-11, 3.13-17]
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Issues

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  Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

  3x Digital Media
  21 April 2012
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  Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

  3x CD
  21 April 2012
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  Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

  3x CD, DVD-Video
  23 April 2012