“Named for a Coney Island street where Woody Guthrie lived in the late Forties and early Fifties, Mermaid Avenue is a collection of recently discovered Guthrie lyrics now set to music for the first time. It’s also nothing that the previous work of those involved could have led anyone to expect. Born in 1912, shaped […]”
“All three installments of Wilco and Billy Bragg's tribute to Woody Guthrie are collected in this compilation, which lovingly-- and in timely fashion-- shows there was more to the Okie folkie than protest music.”
