Volume II

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  She’s Got a New Spell
  3:25
• 2
  Must I Paint You a Picture
  5:32
• 3
  Tender Comrade
  2:50
• 4
  The Price I Pay
  3:34
• 5
  Little Time Bomb
  2:17
• 6
  Rotting on Remand
  3:39
• 7
  Valentine’s Day Is Over
  4:53
• 8
  Life With the Lions
  3:06
• 9
  The Only One
  3:26
• 10
  The Short Answer
  4:59
• 11
  Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
  4:36
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  The Only One (demo)
  3:36
• 2
  The Price I Pay (demo)
  4:01
• 3
  Love Has No Pride
  3:35
• 4
  That’s Entertainment
  3:53
• 5
  She’s Got a New Spell (alternate version)
  2:44
• 6
  The Short Answer (alternate version)
  5:21
• 7
  Little Time Bomb (alternate version)
  2:21
• 8
  Bad Penny (demo)
  3:05
• 9
  Reason to Believe (live)
  2:12
• 10
  Must I Paint You a Picture (extended version)
  7:13
• 11
  Raglan Road (live)
  3:46
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  Accident Waiting to Happen
  4:00
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Moving the Goalposts
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Everywhere
  5:00
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Cindy of a Thousand Lives
  4:14
  3.0 ★
• 5
  You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  3:11
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Trust
  4:13
  3.0 ★
• 7
  God’s Footballer
  3:04
  3.0 ★
• 8
  The Few
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Sexuality
  3:48
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Mother of the Bride
  3:35
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Tank Park Salute
  3:30
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Dolphins
  4:20
  3.0 ★
• 13
  North Sea Bubble
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Rumours of War
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Wish You Were Her
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Body of Water
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• Digital Media 4
• 1
  Party of God
  4:15
• 2
  North Sea Bubble (demo)
  3:29
• 3
  Sexuality (demo)
  3:53
• 4
  Just One Victory (alternate version)
  5:30
• 5
  Everywhere (alternate version)
  4:42
• 6
  Trust (demo)
  5:42
• 7
  Bread & Circuses
  4:28
• 8
  Cindy of a Thousand Lives (demo)
  3:38
• 9
  The Few (demo)
  3:50
• 10
  Revolution
  1:50
• 11
  Tighten Up Your Wig
  3:17
• 12
  Mbh
  2:07
• 13
  This Gulf Between Us
  2:46
• 14
  Piccadilly Rambler
  1:49
• Digital Media 5
• 1
  From Red to Blue
  3:20
• 2
  Upfield
  4:06
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Everybody Loves You Babe
  3:09
• 4
  Sugardaddy
  4:37
• 5
  A Pict Song
  4:55
• 6
  Brickbat
  3:14
• 7
  The Space Race Is Over
  4:26
• 8
  Northern Industrial Town
  2:58
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Fourteenth of February
  3:26
• 10
  King James (alternative version)
  3:21
• 11
  Goalhanger
  3:46
• Digital Media 6
• 1
  As Long as You Hold Me (demo)
  3:25
• 2
  Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (demo)
  1:42
• 3
  Sugar Daddy (demo)
  4:07
• 4
  The Space Race Is Over (demo)
  5:09
• 5
  Goalhanger (demo)
  2:42
• 6
  Upfield (demo)
  5:03
• 7
  The Fourteenth of February (demo)
  3:25
• 8
  Qualifications
  1:48
• 9
  Never Had No One Ever
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Thatcherites
  4:13
• 11
  All Fall Down
  3:34
• Digital Media 7
• 1
  St. Monday
  3:03
• 2
  Jane Allen
  3:58
• 3
  Distant Shore
  2:30
• 4
  England, Half English
  2:28
• 5
  Npwa
  5:31
• 6
  Some Days I See the Point
  4:59
• 7
  Baby Faroukh
  3:05
• 8
  Take Down the Union Jack

  Billy Bragg and the Blokes
  3:19
• 9
  Another Kind of Judy
  3:44
• 10
  He’ll Go Down
  3:21
• 11
  Dreadbelly
  3:32
• 12
  Tears of My Tracks
  3:53
• Digital Media 8
• 1
  Billericay Dickie
  4:45
• 2
  Mansion on the Hill
  4:20
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Glad and Sorry
  4:08
• 4
  He’ll Go Down (demo)
  3:30
• 5
  Yarra Song
  3:32
• 6
  You Pulled the Carpet Out
  2:38
• 7
  Mystery Shoes

  Billy Bragg and the Blokes
  3:09
• 8
  Tears of My Tracks (demo)
  3:19
• 9
  Take Down the Union Jack (band version)
  3:22
• 10
  England, Half English (7" remix)
  3:55
• 11
  12345678
  2:04
• 12
  Dry Bed (band version)
  3:18
• 13
  Danny Rose
  2:27
• 14
  She Smiled Sweetly
  2:50

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Release credits

• Amanda Vincent
  keyboard [2, 7, 9-10, 14-15], piano [14]
• Andy Carlson
  fiddle [5]
• Andy Hobson
  bass guitar [4, 8]
• Andy Peak
  engineer [1-11]
• Andy Szabo
  background vocals [15]
• Anthea Clarke
  background vocals [5]
• Ashley Drees
  mandolin [5.10, 6.10]
• BJ Cole
  pedal steel guitar [6]
• Barb Jungr
  harmonica [8]
• Ben Mandelson
  acoustic guitar [3], bajo sexto [10], bouzouki [1, 1-2, 2, 4-6, 9, 11-12], bugarija [7], electric guitar [1, 9], harmonica [5], lap steel guitar [7], resonator guitar [2], strings [1]
• Billy Bragg
  acoustic guitar [6.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.6-8, 3.10-11, 3.16, 1.1, 1.4, 1.8-9, 7.12], additional [4], arranger [10], background vocals [4.7, 7.12], banjo [11], electric bass guitar [10], electric guitar [7.1-2, 7.4-5, 7.8, 1.1-2, 1.4-7, 1.10-11, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.11-13, 3.15-16], guitar [5.1-2, 5.4-11, 6.4, 6.6, 6.9-11, 4.7], keyboard [6.7, 3.4], lead vocals [1-5, 7, 9-12], triangle [10], vocal [7.6, 7.8, 3.1-16, 8.1, 1.1-11, 6.4, 6.6, 6.9-11, 5.1-11]
• Bruce Thomas
  electric bass guitar [1, 8, 11]
• Camilla Brunt
  violin family [10]
• Cara Tivey
  Hammond organ [2], additional [2], background vocals [1.4, 1.8, 1.11, 3.4, 3.12], keyboard [5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 6.4, 3.6, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13, 3.16], organ [2, 4], piano [3.3, 3.11-12, 6.4, 6.6, 1.2, 1.4-8, 1.11, 5.2-4, 5.9], vocal [16]
• Caroline Hall
  trombone [6.9, 7.4, 7.11, 5.2, 5.11, 3.8]
• Chris Morgan
  double bass [7, 10]
• Chucho Merchán
  double bass [9]
• Danny Thompson
  double bass [1.2, 1.4-7, 3.12, 3.15]
• Dave Woodhead
  brass [4, 11-12], flugelhorn [3.2, 3.6, 7.12, 5.4, 1.5, 1.7], trumpet [3.8, 4.7, 1.5, 6.9, 5.2, 5.11, 7.4, 7.11]
• Diedre Cooper
  cello [6, 9]
• Donna Welchman
  violin family [10]
• Eliza Carthy
  violin [11], vocal [11]
• Elliet Mackrell
  violin [3.3, 3.10, 6.10]
• Fionn Ó Lochlainn
  bass guitar [2, 4]
• Gary Smith
  bass [7], percussion [7]
• George Peckham
  background vocals [11]
• Graham Dear
  assistant [1-11]
• Grant Showbiz
  producer [3.1-16, 5.1-11, 7.1, 7.5-6, 4.7, 6.8-11, 8.1, 8.9]
• Ian McLagan
  Hammond organ [2, 4-7, 9-12], Wurlitzer electric piano [2, 6], accordion [2], background vocals [1-2, 11], electric piano [2], keyboard [1], piano [1, 3, 5]
• J.F.T. Hood
  drums (drum set) [3.1, 3.4-5, 3.8-10, 3.13, 3.15-16, 6.9, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11], percussion [3.1, 5.7, 5.11]
• James Eller
  bass guitar [9, 13]
• Jayne Creamer
  background vocals [11]
• Jody Linscott
  percussion [4, 15]
• Joe Boyd
  producer [1-11]
• John Keane
  bass guitar [5], engineer [5], guest [5], pedal steel guitar [5]
• John Palmer
  cello [9]
• Johnny Marr
  acoustic guitar [9], background vocals [9], electric guitar [4, 9], keyboard [9], producer [4, 9, 13]
• Julia Palmer
  cello [3.14, 4.7, 1.10]
• Kaya Jenner
  background vocals [11]
• Kenny Jones
  12 string guitar [10], acoustic guitar [10]
• Kirsty MacColl
  background vocals [4, 9]
• Lorraine Bowen
  background vocals [3.1, 3.7, 3.15, 7.1, 7.12], clarinet [6]
• Love Ayikai Tagoe
  background vocals [7]
• Lu Edmonds
  acoustic guitar [9], background vocals [1-2, 4-5, 9-11], cümbüş [2, 4, 4-5, 11], guitar [1, 4, 9-10, 12], piano [4], saz [2-3, 6-7], strings [1]
• Martin Belmont
  electric guitar [8, 11]
• Martin Hayles
  engineer [1-11]
• Martyn Barker
  background vocals [1, 5, 9-12], bell [2, 4], bongos [9], cabasa [11], cajón [7], congas [5], cowbell [9, 11], cymbal [6, 9], darbuka [4, 7, 9], drums (drum set) [1], finger snaps [12], foot stomps [7], güiro [5], membranophone [1-2, 5, 7, 9-12], percussion [7.2, 8.1], reco-reco [2], shakers [1-2, 5, 7, 9], shekere [7], snare drum [11], surdo [4], tambourine [1, 9, 12], udu [4, 6, 11]
• Mary Ramsey
  strings [14], viola [7, 14], violin [14]
• Michael Stipe
  background vocals [5]
• Michelle Shocked
  background vocals [11]
• Micky Waller
  membranophone [4, 8, 11]
• Mike Boddy
  engineer [8.9, 7.1, 7.5-6]
• Natalie Merchant
  lead vocals [7]
• Nigel Frydman
  bass guitar [9], electric bass guitar [11]
• Owen Morris
  engineer [9, 13], mix [4]
• Peter Buck
  acoustic guitar [5], mandolin [3, 5]
• Rebecca Naadu Laryea
  background vocals [7]
• Rory Campbell
  bodhrán [10]
• Simon Edwards
  bass guitar [8.1, 7.1-2, 7.4-5, 7.7, 7.9, 7.11-12], bendir [4], electric upright bass [6, 10], fife [7], guitarrón mexicano [3], gumbri [2], krakeb [4]
• Steven Lewis
  background vocals [15]
• Terry Disley
  Hammond organ [1], strings [6, 9]
• Terry Edwards
  alto saxophone [6.9, 5.2, 5.11], baritone saxophone [5.2, 6.9], tenor saxophone [4, 11]
• The Mint Juleps
  background vocals [6]
• 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 [3.4, 3.10, 1.1-2, 1.10], background vocals [11], bass guitar [1, 3-4, 10, 16], electric guitar [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.11, 3.1, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11, 3.13, 3.15-16], mandolin [10], producer [1-11], recording [2], slide guitar [10]
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Issues

• 

  V
  Volume II

  8x CD, DVD-Video
  9 October 2006
• B
  Billy Bragg, Vol. 2

  8x Digital Media
  9 October 2006
• 

  V
  Volume II

  8x CD, DVD-Video
  2006