Mermaid Avenue Vol. II Publications Mermaid Avenue Vol. Perhaps watching the lit skies above the beach one night, or overhearing the local conversation while lingering on a street corner, Woody remains true to his journalistic approach. Yet, all the while twisting the information into his own voice and retelling it with his own message.
Some darker themes are also explored.
Some of these tunes came out of the original Dublin sessions recorded in 1998. Oh, by the way. That's actually a photo taken by Woody of a neighborhood friend. If you look over his shoulder, the apartment next to the corner store is where the Guthrie's lived on the first floor. The corner store had a soda fountain and tables where Woody often sat with a cup of coffee, and wrote while checking out the street scene from the plate glass window.