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Mermaid Avenue
by Billy Bragg, Wilco
The 2134th greatest album of all time
Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 collaboration between singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and the band Wilco that sets previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics to new music. The album mixes acoustic folk and roots songwriting with alternative rock and alt-country textures, combining Bragg's direct, literate vocal delivery with Wilco's layered, occasionally experimental arrangements. It foregrounds storytelling and Americana influences while updating Guthrie's material for a contemporary band setting, and it prompted further collaborative work drawing from Guthrie's archives.
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