Billy Bragg & WilcoBest Billy Bragg & Wilco Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
5
Opinions
4
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 5 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Billy Bragg & Wilco's catalog across 4 albums from 5 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Billy Bragg & Wilco album is Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000) with a 8.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions. The discography on Wavelength spans 1998 to 2012.
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
“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 […]”
Mermaid Avenue
“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 […]”
Mermaid Avenue
“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.”
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