Mermaid Avenue
By: Billy Bragg & Wilco
Contributors: Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967; Merchant, Natalie; Wilco (Musical group)
Publisher: Elektra
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Subjects: Rock music; Popular music; Musical settings; Folk-rock music
Notes: A collection of previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics exhumed from the Woody Guthrie Archives and set to music by Billy Bragg and Wilco at the invitation of Guthrie's daughter Nora.

Program notes by Billy Bragg and lyrics in container insert.

Produced by Wilco and Billy Bragg with Grant Showbiz.

Billy Bragg, vocals, acoustic, electric & steel guitars, banjo, bouzuki ; Wilco (Jeff Tweedy, vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica ; Jay Bennett, acoustic, electric & slide guitars, banjo, bouzuki, dulcimer, piano, Clavinet, Hammond & Farfisa organs, melodica, electric bass, drums, percussion, background vocals ; John Stirratt, piano, Hammond organ, acoustic & electric basses, background vocals ; Ken Coomer, drums, percussion, background vocals) ; with other performers.

Recorded in Dublin, Chicago, and Boston.
Table of contents: title: Walt Whitman's niece -- (3:53); title: California stars -- (4:57); title: Way over yonder in the minor key -- (4:06); title: Birds and ships  -- (with Natalie Merchant) -- (2:13); title: Hoodoo voodoo -- (3:12); title: She came along to me -- (3:26); title: At my window sad and lonely -- (3:27); title: Ingrid Bergman -- (1:50); title: Christ for president -- (2:39); title: I guess I planted -- (3:32); title: One by one -- (3:22); title: Eisler on the go -- (2:56); title: Hesitating beauty -- (3:04); title: Another man's done gone -- (1:34) -- The; title: unwelcome guest-- (5:09).