Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions

The Mermaid Avenue series is one of the most successful and unusual folk-rock collaborations of the last few decades. At its core, the project took previously unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics and set them to entirely new music composed and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Celebrated for honouring Guthrie's spirit while creating something entirely new, the Mermaid Avenue recordings remain a landmark achievement in folk and Americana music. 

The Complete Sessions is a new format for 2926 including unreleased content. All three volumes combined with additional bonus material, including demos, alternate versions and live cuts.

7LP+7" Box Set

Walt Whitman's Niece  
California Stars  
Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key  
Birds And Ships feat. Natalie Merchant  
Hoodoo Voodoo  
She Came Along To Me  
At My Window Sad And Lonely  
Ingrid Bergman  
Christ For President  
I Guess I Planted  
One By One  
Eisler On The Go  
Hesitating Beauty  
Another Man's Done Gone  
The Unwelcome Guest  
Airline To Heaven  
My Flying Saucer  
Feed Of Man  
Hot Rod Hotel  
I Was Born  
Secret Of The Sea  
Stetson Kennedy  
Remember The Mountain Bed  
Blood Of The Lamb  
Aginst Th' Law  
All You Fascists  
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again  
Meanest Man  
Black Wind Blowing  
Someday Some Morning Sometime  
Bugeye Jim  
When The Roses Bloom Again  
Gotta Work  
My Thirty Thousand  
Ought To Be Satisfied Now  
Listening To The Wind That Blows  
Go Down To The Water  
Chain Of Broken Hearts  
Jailcell Blues  
Don't You Marry  
Give Me A Nail  
The Jolly Banker  
Union Prayer  
Be Kind To The Boy On The Road  
Ain'ta Gonna Grieve  
Tea Bag Blues  
I'm Out To Get  
California Stars (Live)  
Aginst Th' Law (Alternate Version)  
All You Fascists (Alternate Version)  
I Guess I Planted (Alternate Version)  
She Came Along To Me (Alternate Version)  
Hesitating Beauty (Solo Version)  
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (Demo)  
Psalm (Demo)  
Hot Rod Hotel (Demo)  
Christ For President (Solo Version)  
Give Me A Nail (Demo)  
Long & Hard (Demo)  
I Was Born (Demo)  
At My Window Sad And Lonely (Solo Version)  
Birds And Ships (Demo)  
The Unwelcome Guest (Demo)  
Airline To Heaven (Solo Version)  
Woody Guthrie - Hesitating Beauty (Demo)  

4CD

Disc 1 – Mermaid Avenue

1. Walt Whitman's Niece
2. California Stars
3. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
4. Birds and Ships
5. Hoodoo Voodoo
6. She Came Along to Me
7. At My Window Sad and Lonely
8. Ingrid Bergman
9. Christ for President
10. I Guess I Planted
11. One by One
12. Eisler on the Go
13. Hesitating Beauty
14. Another Man's Done Gone
15. The Unwelcome Guest

Disc 2 – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

1. Airline to Heaven
2. My Flying Saucer
3. Feed of Man
4. Hot Rod Hotel
5. I Was Born
6. Secret of the Sea
7. Stetson Kennedy
8. Remember the Mountain Bed
9. Blood of the Lamb
10. Aginst Th' Law
11. All You Fascists
12. Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
13. Meanest Man
14. Black Wind Blowing
15. Someday Some Morning Sometime

Disc 3 - Mermaid Avenue Vol. III

1. Bugeye Jim
2. When the Roses Bloom Again
3. Gotta Work
4. My Thirty Thousand
5. Ought to Be Satisfied Now
6. Listening to the Wind That Blows
7. Go Down to the Water
8. Chain of Broken Hearts
9. Jailcell Blues
10. Don't You Marry
11. Give Me a Nail
12. The Jolly Banker
13. Union Prayer
14. Be Kind to the Boy on the Road
15. Ain'ta Gonna Grieve
16. Tea Bag Blues
17. I'm Out to Get

Disc 4 - Alternatives & Demos

1. California Stars (Live)
2. Against Th’ Law (Alternate Version)*
3. All You Fascists (Alternate Version)*
4. I Guess I Planted (Alternate Version)*
5. She Came Along To Me (Alternate Version)*
6. Hesitating Beauty (Solo Version)*
7. Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (Demo)*
8. Psalm (Demo)*
9. Hot Rod Hotel (Demo)*
10. Christ For President (Solo Version)*
11. Give Me A Nail (Demo)*
12. Long & Hard (Demo)*
13. I Was Born (Demo)*
14. At My Window Sad And Lonely (Solo Version)
15. Birds And Ships (Demo)*
16. The Unwelcome Guest (Demo)*
17. Airline To Heaven (Solo Version)
18. Hesitating Beauty (Woody Guthrie Demo)*

*Previously unreleased.