“On 1998’s Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco saved Woody Guthrie’s legacy from Dust Bowl sainthood. With the encouragement of Nora Guthrie, the folk legend’s daughter, Bragg and Wilco set some of the singer’s unheard lyrics to new music, and the results were revelatory: Woody, it turns out, was every bit as lusty, fallible and […]”
