Billy Bragg

Love, lust, and socialism

by Erick Trickey

posted 3/1/2006

Sometimes I think even my friends who've heard Billy Bragg's music are coming to him backwards. They picked up 1998's Mermaid Avenue, Bragg's collaboration with Wilco that set Woody Guthrie's unpublished lyrics to music, but I'm not sure they ever dug into the albums that earned Bragg the keys to the Guthrie archives. This is the

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