Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco. The project was organized by Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue was released on the Elektra Records label on June 23, 1998. A second volume of recordings, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, followed in 2000. The projects are named after a song "Mermaid's Avenue" written by Guthrie.
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- Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco. The project was organized by Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue was released on the Elektra Records label on June 23, 1998. A second volume of recordings, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, followed in 2000. The projects are named after a song "Mermaid's Avenue" written by Guthrie. This was also the street in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York on which Guthrie lived. During the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora contacted English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg about writing music for a selection of completed Guthrie lyrics. Her father had left behind over a thousand sets of complete lyrics written between 1939 and 1967; none of these lyrics had any music other than a vague stylistic notation. Nora Guthrie's liner notes in Mermaid Avenue indicate that it was her intention that the songs be given to a new generation of musicians who would be able to make the songs relevant to a younger generation. Nora Guthrie contacted Bragg, who in turn approached Wilco and asked them to participate in the project as well. Wilco agreed, and in addition to recording with Bragg in Ireland, they were given their own share of songs to finish. Rather than recreating tunes in Guthrie's style, Bragg and Wilco created new, contemporary music for the lyrics. What seemed like a risky enterprise surprised everyone; released in 1998 as Mermaid Avenue, the results were met with universal acclaim. The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and went on to place fourth on the Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1998. In 2008, Jonatha Brooke released The Works, a project that similarly drew on the trove of unpublished Guthrie material. According to Bob Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, Woody Guthrie offered his unpublished songs to Dylan, but the young singer was unable to get them from Guthrie's family. Man in the Sand, a documentary about the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, was released in 1999.
- Mermaid Avenue é um álbum de 1998 de letras inéditas escritas pelo cantor e compositor folk estadunidense Woody Guthrie, colocadas em música escrita e executada pelo cantor britânico Billy Bragg e a banda estadunidense Wilco. O projeto foi organizado pela filha de Guthrie, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue foi lançado pela gravadora Elektra Records em 23 de Junho de 1998. Um segundo volume de gravações, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, seguiria em 2000. O projetos foram nomeados apoós a canção "Mermaid's Avenue" escrita por Guthrie. Essa também é a rua em Coney Island, Brooklyn, Nova Iorque que Guthrie morava.
- Mermaid Avenue är ett album utgivet av den brittiske musikern Billy Bragg tillsammans med det amerikanska bandet Wilco, utgivet i juni 1998. Låttexterna på albumet är skrivna av folkmusikern Woody Guthrie. När Woody Guthrie avled 1967 lämnade han efter sig ett tusental färdiga texter skrivna mellan 1939 och 1967. 1995 kontaktades singer-songwritern Billy Bragg av Guthries dotter Nora om att komponera musik till några av dessa tidigare opublicerade texter. Bragg kontaktade i sin tur alt-countrybandet Wilco och bad dem medverka. Projektet resulterade i ytterligare ett album, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II utgivet 2000.
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- Mermaid Avenue is a 1998 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco. The project was organized by Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue was released on the Elektra Records label on June 23, 1998. A second volume of recordings, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, followed in 2000. The projects are named after a song "Mermaid's Avenue" written by Guthrie.
- Mermaid Avenue é um álbum de 1998 de letras inéditas escritas pelo cantor e compositor folk estadunidense Woody Guthrie, colocadas em música escrita e executada pelo cantor britânico Billy Bragg e a banda estadunidense Wilco. O projeto foi organizado pela filha de Guthrie, Nora Guthrie. Mermaid Avenue foi lançado pela gravadora Elektra Records em 23 de Junho de 1998. Um segundo volume de gravações, Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, seguiria em 2000.
- Mermaid Avenue är ett album utgivet av den brittiske musikern Billy Bragg tillsammans med det amerikanska bandet Wilco, utgivet i juni 1998. Låttexterna på albumet är skrivna av folkmusikern Woody Guthrie. När Woody Guthrie avled 1967 lämnade han efter sig ett tusental färdiga texter skrivna mellan 1939 och 1967. 1995 kontaktades singer-songwritern Billy Bragg av Guthries dotter Nora om att komponera musik till några av dessa tidigare opublicerade texter.
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