The Roaring Forty | 1983–2023

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  The Milkman of Human Kindness
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 2
  To Have and to Have Not
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Richard
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 4
  A New England
  2:14
  4.8 ★
• 5
  The Man in the Iron Mask
  2:14
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Lovers Town Revisited
  1:19
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Strange Things Happen (alternative version)
  3:17
• 9
  The Cloth 1
  2:50
• 10
  Love Lives Here
  1:42
• 11
  Speedway Hero
  2:38
• 12
  Loving You Too Long
  2:50
• 13
  The Man in the Iron Mask (alternative version)
  2:17
• 14
  This Guitar Says Sorry (alternative version)
  2:14
• 15
  Love Gets Dangerous (alternative version)
  2:32
• 16
  The Cloth 2
  2:46
• 17
  A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
  2:27
• 18
  Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
  2:32
• 19
  A New England
  2:18
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Strange Things Happen
  2:43
• 21
  This Guitar Says Sorry
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Love Gets Dangerous
  2:18
• 23
  Fear Is a Man’s Best Friend
  2:40
• 24
  A13, Trunk Road to the Sea
  2:26
• 25
  The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
  2:03
• 26
  The Man in the Iron Mask
  2:08
• 27
  A New England
  2:11
• CD 2
• 1
  It Says Here
  4:18
• 2
  Love Gets Dangerous
  2:25
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Myth of Trust
  2:55
• 4
  From a Vauxhall Velox
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 5
  The Saturday Boy
  3:32
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Island of No Return
  3:36
  4.0 ★
• 7
  St. Swithin’s Day
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Like Soldiers Do
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 9
  This Guitar Says Sorry
  2:30
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Strange Things Happen
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 11
  A Lover Sings
  3:52
  4.0 ★
• 12
  It Must Be a River
  2:18
• 13
  Won’t Talk About It
  5:05
• 14
  Talking Wag Club Blues
  2:58
• 15
  You Got the Power
  3:09
• 16
  The Last Time
  2:54
• 17
  Back to the Old House
  2:51
• 18
  A Lover Sings (alternative version)
  3:57
• 19
  Between the Wars
  2:29
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Which Side Are You On?
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 21
  World Turned Upside Down
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 22
  It Says Here (alternative version)
  2:35
• 23
  Days Like These
  2:20
• 24
  I Don’t Need This Pressure Ron
  1:57
  3.0 ★
• 25
  Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance
  2:22
  4.0 ★
• 26
  Between the Wars
  2:31
• CD 3
• 1
  Greetings to the New Brunette
  3:33
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Train Train
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The Marriage
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Ideology
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Levi Stubbs’ Tears
  3:32
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Honey, I’m a Big Boy Now
  4:09
  3.0 ★
• 7
  There Is Power in a Union
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Help Save the Youth of America
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Wishing the Days Away
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 10
  The Passion
  2:56
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Warmest Room
  3:59
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Home Front
  4:11
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Shirley
  3:34
  5.0 ★
• 14
  The Tracks of My Tears
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Wishing the Days Away (alternative version)
  2:31
  4.0 ★
• 16
  The Clashing of Ideologies (alternative version)
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 17
  A Nurse’s Life Is Full of Woe
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Only Bad Signs
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 19
  Hold the Fort
  1:47
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Think Again
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Walk Away Renee (version)

  Billy Bragg introducing Duane Tremelo
  2:25
  3.6 ★
• 22
  The Tatler
  3:39
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Deportees

  Billy Bragg with Hank Wangford
  4:01
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Jeane
  2:52
  4.0 ★
• 25
  Sin City

  Billy Bragg with Hank Wangford
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  She’s Got a New Spell
  3:25
• 2
  Must I Paint You a Picture
  5:30
• 3
  Tender Comrade
  2:48
• 4
  The Price I Pay
  3:33
• 5
  Little Time Bomb
  2:18
• 6
  Rotting on Remand
  3:38
• 7
  Valentine’s Day Is Over
  4:54
• 8
  Life With the Lions
  3:05
• 9
  The Only One
  3:23
• 10
  The Short Answer
  4:56
• 11
  Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  4:35
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Price I Pay (demo)
  3:58
• 13
  Love Has No Pride
  3:33
• 14
  That’s Entertainment
  3:51
• 15
  She’s Got a New Spell (demo)
  2:42
• 16
  Little Time Bomb (demo)
  2:19
• 17
  Bad Penny (demo)
  3:04
• 18
  Reason to Believe
  2:09
• 19
  Raglan Road
  3:44
• 20
  She’s Leaving Home (single, March 1988)

  Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Wishing the Days Away (Ballad version)
  4:34
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Won’t Talk About It

  Billy Bragg with Norman Cook
  4:22
• CD 5
• 1
  The Internationale
  3:49
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
  1:30
  3.0 ★
• 3
  He Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Blake’s Jerusalem
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Nicaragua Nicarauguita
  1:09
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Red Flag
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 7
  My Youngest Son Came Home Today
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Joe Hill

  Billy Bragg with The Pattersons
  8:23
  3.0 ★
• 9
  This Land Is Your Land

  Billy Bragg with Heathens All
  4:35
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Never Cross a Picket Line
  3:37
  3.0 ★
• 11
  A Change Is Gonna Come
  3:57
  3.0 ★
• 12
  A Miner’s Life
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Introduction
  0:58
• 14
  Help Save the Youth of America (live)
  2:37
• 15
  Think Again (live)
  4:23
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (live)
  3:11
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Days Like These (DC remix)
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 18
  To Have and to Have Not (live)
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 19
  There Is Power in a Union

  Billy Bragg with The Pattersons
  3:27
• 20
  Levi Stubbs’ Tears (live)
  3:48
• 21
  Ideology (live)
  4:54
• 22
  The Short Answer (live)
  4:41
• 23
  Seven & Seven Is
  2:10
• CD 6
• 1
  Accident Waiting to Happen
  4:00
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Moving the Goalposts
  2:33
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Everywhere
  4:59
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Cindy of a Thousand Lives
  4:14
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  3:10
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Trust
  4:11
  3.0 ★
• 7
  God’s Footballer
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 8
  The Few
  3:27
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Sexuality
  3:46
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Mother of the Bride
  3:34
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Tank Park Salute
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Dolphins
  4:19
  3.0 ★
• 13
  North Sea Bubble
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Rumours of War
  2:49
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Wish You Were Her
  2:47
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Body of Water
  3:54
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Bad Penny
  2:31
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Ontario, Quebec and Me
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Bread and Circuses
  4:26
• 20
  Heart Like a Wheel
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star version)
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Sulk
  3:46
  4.0 ★
• 23
  Revolution
  1:49
• CD 7
• 1
  From Red to Blue
  3:22
• 2
  Upfield
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Everybody Loves You Babe
  3:11
• 4
  Sugardaddy
  4:37
• 5
  A Pict Song
  4:56
• 6
  Brickbat
  3:14
• 7
  The Space Race Is Over
  4:26
• 8
  Northern Industrial Town
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Fourteenth of February
  3:27
• 10
  King James Version
  3:22
• 11
  Goalhanger
  3:46
• 12
  Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (demo)
  4:56
• 13
  The Boy Done Good (extended edit)
  3:22
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Run Out of Reasons
  5:30
• 15
  Just One Victory
  3:22
• 16
  The Boy Done Good
  1:49
• 17
  Qualifications
  4:46
• 18
  Sugardaddy (Smokey Gets in Your Ears mix)
  3:39
• 19
  Never Had No One Ever
  3:12
• 20
  Rule nor Reason
  4:13
• 21
  Thatcherites
  1:42
• CD 8
• 1
  Walt Whitman’s Niece

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:53
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  4:06
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Birds and Ships

  Billy Bragg with Natalie Merchant
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 4
  She Came Along to Me

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:27
  3.6 ★
• 5
  Ingrid Bergman
  1:51
  3.5 ★
• 6
  I Guess I Planted

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:34
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Eisler on the Go

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  2:57
  3.6 ★
• 8
  The Unwelcome Guest

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  5:07
  3.6 ★
• 9
  My Flying Saucer

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  1:46
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Hot Rod Hotel

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Stetson Kennedy

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  2:39
  5.0 ★
• 12
  All You Fascists

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  2:45
  5.0 ★
• 13
  Meanest Man

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:46
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Black Wind Blowing
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 15
  Bugeye Jim
  3:15
• 16
  My Thirty Thousand

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  2:38
• 17
  Ought to Be Satisfied Now
  3:32
• 18
  Go Down to the Water
  4:33
• 19
  Jailcell Blues

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  2:25
• 20
  Don’t You Marry
  3:16
• 21
  Give Me a Nail

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  1:40
• 22
  Union Prayer
  4:10
• 23
  Be Kind to the Boy on the Road

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:44
• 24
  I’m Out to Get

  Billy Bragg with Wilco
  3:58
• CD 9
• 1
  St. Monday
  3:02
• 2
  Jane Allen
  3:57
• 3
  Distant Shore
  2:28
• 4
  England, Half English
  2:26
• 5
  NPWA
  5:30
• 6
  Some Days I See the Point
  4:57
• 7
  Baby Faroukh
  3:03
• 8
  Take Down the Union Jack
  3:18
• 9
  Another Kind of Judy
  3:42
• 10
  He’ll Go Down
  3:20
• 11
  Dreadbelly
  3:31
• 12
  The Tears of My Tracks
  3:52
• 13
  Mystery Shoes
  3:08
• 14
  England, Half English (7″ remix)
  3:55
• 15
  Take Down the Union Jack (Band version)
  3:21
• 16
  Yarra Song
  3:32
• 17
  You Pulled the Carpet Out
  2:37
• 18
  Christ for President (live in the studio)
  4:12
• 19
  California Stars (live in the studio)
  3:58
• 20
  Hoodoo Ska Voodoo (live in the studio)
  5:20
• 21
  My Father’s Mansion
  2:57
• 22
  England Half English Meets John Barleycorn
  2:53
• CD 10
• 1
  I Keep Faith
  4:35
• 2
  I Almost Killed You
  2:38
• 3
  M for Me
  2:43
• 4
  The Beach Is Free
  2:43
• 5
  Sing Their Souls Back Home
  3:28
• 6
  You Make Me Brave
  3:04
• 7
  Something Happened
  2:38
• 8
  Mr. Love & Justice
  3:13
• 9
  If You Ever Leave
  3:01
• 10
  O Freedom
  4:05
• 11
  The Johnny Carcinogenic Show
  4:15
• 12
  Farm Boy
  3:37
• 13
  Ash Wednesday (Band version)
  2:02
• 14
  Like Soldiers Do (acoustic version)
  3:42
• 15
  The Price of Oil
  4:50
• 16
  Down in the Willow Garden
  2:51
• 17
  Old Clash Fan Fight Song
  2:34
• 18
  The Big Lie
  2:04
• 19
  Home
  3:20
• 20
  Same Again
  2:05
• 21
  There Will Be a Reckoning (Pressure Drop version)
  3:44
• 22
  All You Fascists 2010
  1:52
• 23
  Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day (Pressure Drop version)
  2:53
• 24
  The Battle of Barking
  2:16
• 25
  A New England (From a Concert for Kirsty Maccoll)
  4:07
• CD 11
• 1
  January Song
  2:21
• 2
  No One Knows Nothing Anymore
  4:32
• 3
  Handyman Blues
  3:02
• 4
  I Ain’t Got No Home
  3:34
• 5
  Swallow My Pride
  2:51
• 6
  Do Unto Others
  4:08
• 7
  Over You
  3:15
• 8
  Goodbye, Goodbye
  3:15
  4.0 ★
• 9
  There Will Be a Reckoning
  3:30
• 10
  Chasing Rainbows
  3:38
• 11
  Your Name on My Tongue
  4:50
• 12
  Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day
  3:11
• 13
  We’re Following the Wrong Star
  4:10
• 14
  Never Buy the Sun
  3:45
• 15
  Last Flight to Abu Dhabi
  2:06
• 16
  Constituition Hill
  2:30
• 17
  Lay Down Your Weary Tune
  4:19
• 18
  Song of the Iceberg
  3:50
• 19
  There Is Power in a Union
  2:51
• 20
  Hope St.

  Billy Bragg with Levellers
  3:38
• 21
  Kilroy Was Here
  4:12
• 22
  Sunday Morning

  Billy Bragg with Courtney Barnett
  2:52
• CD 12
• 1
  Rock Island Line
  2:56
• 2
  The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
  4:29
• 3
  The Midnight Special
  3:35
• 4
  Railroad Bill
  2:49
• 5
  Lonesome Whistle
  2:54
• 6
  KC Moan
  2:40
• 7
  Waiting for a Train
  2:47
• 8
  In the Pines
  3:30
• 9
  Gentle on My Mind
  3:39
• 10
  Hobo’s Lullaby
  3:57
• 11
  Railroading on the Great Divide
  3:08
• 12
  John Henry
  2:41
• 13
  Early Morning Rain
  4:15
• 14
  Why We Build the Wall (live)
  3:45
• 15
  The Midnight Special (live)
  3:36
• 16
  The L & N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (live)
  4:46
• 17
  The Sleep of Reason
  4:33
• 18
  King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
  3:00
• 19
  Why We Build the Wall
  3:30
• 20
  Saffiyah Smiles
  3:33
• 21
  Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
  4:14
• 22
  Full English Brexit
  4:04
• CD 13
• 1
  Should Have Seen It Coming
  3:24
• 2
  Mid‐Century Modern
  5:28
• 3
  Lonesome Ocean
  3:35
• 4
  Good Days and Bad Days
  4:41
• 5
  Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free
  3:21
• 6
  Reflections on the Mirth of Creativity
  3:08
• 7
  The Million Things That Never Happened
  3:46
• 8
  The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here No More
  4:44
• 9
  I Believe in You
  3:02
• 10
  Pass It On
  3:52
• 11
  I Will Be Your Shield
  3:31
• 12
  Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained
  3:39
• 13
  Sulk (live)
  3:45
• 14
  Moving the Goalposts (live)
  2:58
• 15
  Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained (live)
  3:19
• 16
  The Million Things That Never Happened (live)
  3:49
• 17
  King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood (live)
  2:56
• 18
  Mid‐Century Modern (live)
  4:55
• 19
  Cindy of a Thousand Lives (live)
  4:22
• 20
  Lonesome Ocean (live)
  3:42
• CD 14
• 1
  Ever Fallen in Love (with Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) (live)
  2:44
• 2
  The Internationale

  Billy Bragg with Pete Seeger
  3:32
• 3
  Salt of the Earth

  Billy Bragg with Peter Buck
  2:55
• 4
  My Youngest Son Came Home Today

  Billy Bragg with Michael Stipe
  3:39
• 5
  PF Sloan Billy Bragg

  Billy Bragg with Mike Mills
  4:25
• 6
  Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby

  Billy Bragg with Kirsty MacColl
  2:47
• 7
  If I Had a Hammer

  Billy Bragg with Eliza Carthy
  3:05
• 8
  Slipknot
  4:34
• 9
  Marching Out From Selma
  3:07
• 10
  When the Ship Comes In (live)
  3:25
• 11
  Don’t Do It Liza

  Billy Bragg with KT Tunstall
  3:54
• 12
  The Drugs Don’t Work

  Billy Bragg with KT Tunstall
  4:13
• 13
  I Ain’t Got No Home

  Billy Bragg with Foy Vance
  4:03
• 14
  On a Good Day
  2:17
• 15
  Talkin’ World War III Blues
  3:11
• 16
  The Rebels of ’48 (live)
  3:17
• 17
  An English Revolutionary (live)
  3:30
• 18
  Ballots and Bread (live)
  4:01
• 19
  Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You

  Billy Bragg with Joe Henry
  3:22
• 20
  If We Make It Through December

  Billy Bragg with Joe Henry
  3:13
• 21
  Springhill
  4:51
• 22
  Can’t Be There Today
  3:41

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Release credits

• Amanda Vincent
  keyboard [14.7, 6.2, 6.7, 6.9-10, 6.14-15], piano [14, 17]
• Andy Carlson
  fiddle [5]
• Andy Hobson
  bass [17], bass guitar [4, 8]
• Andy Peak
  engineer [1-11]
• Andy Szabo
  background vocals [15]
• Ashley Drees
  mandolin [10]
• BJ Cole
  pedal steel guitar [6]
• Barb Jungr
  harmonica [8]
• Ben Ivitsky
  viola [16]
• Ben Mandelson
  bouzouki [4, 6]
• Ben Nicholls
  double bass [21]
• Billy Bragg
  acoustic guitar [6.1, 6.3, 6.6-8, 6.10-11, 6.16, 3.1, 3.8-9, 3.20, 4.1, 4.4, 4.8-9, 8.1-3, 8.5-6, 8.8-9, 8.11], additional [4], arranger [20], background vocals [19], banjo [7], electric bass guitar [10], electric guitar [5.3, 5.6, 6.1, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8, 6.11-13, 6.15-16, 8.10, 8.12, 8.21, 8.23-24, 4.1-2, 4.4-7, 4.10-11, 3.1, 3.3-8, 3.10-12, 3.20, 9.4], guest [20], guitar [2.25, 3.22, 3.24, 1.1-7, 8.7, 8.16, 14.7, 5.7, 7.1-2, 7.4-11, 11.21, 6.17-19, 6.21-22], handclaps [6], keyboard [4], lead vocals [11.1-12, 9.4, 8.1-2, 8.4-9], performer [15], producer [10.15, 8.5, 8.9, 8.15-16, 8.18, 8.20-21, 8.23-24], resonator guitar [13-15, 20], slide guitar [9], spoken vocals [21], tenor banjo [18], triangle [10], vocal [6.1-18, 6.20-22, 11.21, 2.24-25, 3.1-13, 3.20, 3.22, 3.24, 9.6, 9.21, 14.7, 7.1-11, 7.13, 1.1-7, 8.10-16, 8.18, 8.20-21, 8.23-24, 4.1-11, 4.20-21, 5.1-7]
• Bob Egan
  pedal steel guitar [8], slide guitar [4]
• Bobby Valentino
  violin [2], violin family [9]
• Bruce Thomas
  electric bass guitar [1, 8, 11]
• Calum MacColl
  engineer [21], guitar [21], producer [21]
• Camilla Brunt
  violin family [10]
• Cara Tivey
  Hammond organ [2], additional [2], background vocals [6.4, 6.12, 4.4, 4.8, 4.11], keyboard [4.21, 6.6, 6.8-9, 6.11, 6.13, 6.16, 6.21-22, 7.7, 7.9, 7.11, 7.13], organ [2, 4], piano [6.3, 6.11-12, 6.20, 7.2-4, 7.9, 4.2, 4.4-8, 4.11, 4.20, 5.1, 5.4, 5.7], recorder [20], shakuhachi [7], vocal [6.16, 6.20-22, 4.20, 5.4]
• Caroline Hall
  trombone [7.2, 7.11, 9.4, 6.8]
• Charlie Heather
  drums (drum set) [20]
• Charlie Llewellin
  cymbal [3], membranophone [3]
• Chris Morgan
  double bass [7, 10]
• Chucho Merchán
  double bass [9]
• Corey Harris
  background vocals [6], electric guitar [24], guest [6], handclaps [6], lap steel guitar [21]
• Cory Band
  brass [1]
• Côr Cochion Caerdydd
  vocal [1]
• Danny Thompson
  double bass [6.12, 6.15, 4.2, 4.4-7]
• Dave Woodhead
  brass [4], flugelhorn [3.3, 3.5, 3.12, 6.2, 6.6, 4.5, 4.7, 7.4], trumpet [6.8, 6.19, 9.4, 3.3, 3.5, 3.12, 7.2, 7.11, 4.5]
• David Bedford
  arranger [1], conductor [1]
• Dick Gaughan
  vocal [6]
• Diedre Cooper
  cello [6, 9]
• Donna Welchman
  violin family [10]
• Eliza Carthy
  violin [9.21, 8.2, 8.16, 8.18, 14.7], vocal [7]
• Elizabeth Steen
  accordion [2]
• Elliet Mackrell
  violin [3, 10]
• Fionn Ó Lochlainn
  bass guitar [2, 4]
• Gary Smith
  bass [19], percussion [19], producer [21-22]
• George Peckham
  background vocals [11]
• George Shilling
  percussion [1, 3-12]
• Graham Dear
  assistant [1-11]
• Grant Showbiz
  additional [15-16, 18, 20-21, 23-24], producer [5.1-7, 5.10, 8.5, 8.9, 6.1-20, 7.1-11, 7.13, 9.6, 9.15, 3.13], vocal [3]
• Harry Mead
  membranophone [21]
• Ian McLagan
  Hammond organ [4, 6], Wurlitzer electric piano [6]
• J.F.T. Hood
  drums (drum set) [6.1, 6.4-5, 6.8-10, 6.13, 6.15-17, 7.2, 7.4, 7.7, 7.9, 7.11], percussion [6.1, 7.7, 7.11]
• James Eller
  bass guitar [9, 13]
• Jay Bennett
  Hammond organ [2, 6, 13], acoustic guitar [4, 9], background vocals [1, 4, 6, 16], banjo [16, 24], baritone guitar [9], bouzouki [2], clavinet [1], drums (drum set) [1], electric bass guitar [4], electric guitar [9-11], farfisa [1, 10], grand piano [8], guitar [24], handclaps [6], harmonica [12], keyboard [21], mandolin [10, 24], melodica [7-8, 16], organ [23], percussion [7], piano [1, 6-7, 21], slide guitar [4, 12], solo [11]
• Jayne Creamer
  background vocals [11]
• Jeff Tweedy
  12 string guitar [21], acoustic guitar [4, 8, 10, 21, 24], background vocals [1, 6, 8], cabasa [9], electric guitar [1, 6, 12-13, 23], handclaps [6], harmonica [1, 4, 8]
• Jeremy Cunningham
  bass guitar [20]
• Jerry Boys
  engineer [5, 9]
• Jim Sutherland
  bodhrán [6], percussion [6]
• Jody Linscott
  percussion [6.4, 6.15, 7.13]
• Joe Boyd
  producer [1-11]
• Joe Henry
  producer [11.1-12, 12.1-13]
• John Keane
  bass guitar [5], engineer [5], guest [5], pedal steel guitar [5]
• John Palmer
  cello [9]
• John Porter
  bass guitar [1, 3, 11], mandolin [8-9, 20], producer [4.20-21, 3.1-12, 3.20-22, 3.24], slide guitar [1]
• John Stirratt
  Hammond organ [4], acoustic bass guitar [1], acoustic guitar [4], background vocals [1, 6], baritone guitar [13], bass [16, 21, 23-24], bass guitar [11-12], electric bass guitar [2, 6, 8-10, 13], guitar [9], handclaps [6]
• Johnny Marr
  acoustic guitar [6.9, 3.21], background vocals [9], electric guitar [6.4, 6.9, 3.1, 3.10], guitar [18], keyboard [9], performer [3.13, 7.13], producer [6.4, 6.9, 6.13, 3.13], tambourine [18], vocal [18]
• Jon Sevink
  violin [20]
• Jonathan “JP” Parker
  background vocals [1]
• Julia Palmer
  cello [4.10, 6.14, 6.19]
• Kate St John
  accordion [21]
• Kaya Jenner
  background vocals [11]
• Ken Coomer
  background vocals [1, 6], drums (drum set) [1-2, 4, 6, 8, 16, 21, 23-24], guest [9], handclaps [6], membranophone [10-13], percussion [1-2, 4, 7], tambourine [9], whistle [21]
• Ken Craddock
  piano [6, 11]
• Kenny Jones
  12 string guitar [10], acoustic guitar [10], engineer [1.21, 2.1-2, 2.5-11, 2.19, 2.21, 5.15-18], guitar [20], percussion [1, 3-12], producer [3.1-12, 3.22, 3.24, 5.15-18, 4.20-21, 2.19, 2.21]
• Kirsty MacColl
  background vocals [4, 9, 17], vocal [1, 10]
• Lorraine Bowen
  accordion [3], background vocals [7.13, 6.1, 6.7, 6.15], clarinet [5.3, 6.6], piano [3], pipe organ [3], sopranino recorder [3, 7]
• Lu Edmonds
  background vocals [4], cümbüş [4], guitar [4], piano [4], saz [6]
• Marc Duff
  tin whistle [6]
• Mark Chadwick
  performer [20]
• Martin Belmont
  electric guitar [8, 11]
• Martin Hayles
  engineer [1-11]
• Martyn Barker
  bell [4], cymbal [6], darbuka [4], surdo [4], udu [4, 6]
• Mary Ramsey
  strings [14], viola [7, 14], violin [14]
• May Fitzpatrick
  background vocals [5, 11]
• Michael Stipe
  background vocals [5]
• Michelle Shocked
  background vocals [11]
• Micky Waller
  membranophone [4, 8, 11]
• Mike Boddy
  engineer [6, 15]
• Natalie Merchant
  background vocals [2], guest [2-3], lead vocals [6.19, 8.3], performer [3]
• Neill MacColl
  bass guitar [21], mandolin [21], producer [21]
• Nic Waterhouse
  trombone [3]
• Nigel Frydman
  bass guitar [21-22], electric bass guitar [11]
• Oliver Hitch
  engineer [1-7], producer [1-7], recording [1-7]
• Owen Morris
  engineer [9, 13], mix [4]
• Peter Buck
  acoustic guitar [5], mandolin [3, 5]
• Peter Yanowitz
  membranophone [2]
• Raoul Terzi
  assistant [21]
• Rob Allum
  drums (drum set) [21-22]
• Robert Handley
  vocal [24]
• Robert Wyatt
  background vocals [1]
• Ruadhri Cushnan
  mix [20]
• Ryan Freeland
  mix [11.1-12, 12.1-13], recording [12.1-13, 11.1-12]
• Sean Lakeman
  producer [20]
• Simon Edwards
  bass guitar [4], bendir [4], electric upright bass [6], krakeb [4], producer [15]
• Simon Friend
  guitar [20]
• Simon Moreton
  percussion [1, 5]
• Steven Lewis
  background vocals [15]
• Ted de Bono
  producer [1.21, 2.1-2, 2.5-11, 2.24-25]
• Terry Disley
  Hammond organ [1], strings [6, 9]
• Terry Edwards
  alto saxophone [2, 11], baritone saxophone [2], tenor saxophone [4]
• Theresa Pamplin
  viola [10]
• Tony Maronie
  percussion [1, 10]
• Victor van Vugt
  engineer [1-12, 14-16]
• Victoria Taylor Roberts
  background vocals [15]
• Wiggy
  12 string guitar [1], acoustic guitar [4.1-2, 4.10, 6.4, 6.10], background vocals [11], bass guitar [5.3, 6.1, 6.3-4, 6.10, 6.16], electric guitar [4.1-2, 4.4, 4.11, 6.1, 6.5, 6.8, 6.11, 6.13, 6.15-16], guitar [17, 21-22], mandolin [10], producer [5.1-7, 4.1-11], recording [18], slide guitar [10], vocal [3]
• Wilco
  producer [5, 9, 15-16, 18, 20-21, 23-24]
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