Includes the BETWEEN THE WARS EP (1985).Bragg's first full album delivers another clutch of memorable, clever songs. Here the rudimentary voice and electric guitar arrangements prevalent in Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy are refined and ...
Initial pressing includes bonus CD.Personnel inlcudes: Billy Bragg, Wiggy, Cara Tivey, Dave Woodhead, Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, John Porter, Kenny Craddock, Danny Thompson, Simon Moreton, Tony Maronie, Bruce Thomas, Mickey Waller, Mar...
Personnel: Billy Bragg (vocals, guitars); Lu Edmonds (guitars, saz, percussion); Ben Mandelson (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, National guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica); Nic Waterhouse (trombone); Ian McLagan (piano, Wurlitzer pia...
Personnel: Billy Bragg (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Ben Mandelson (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, tenor guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica); Lu Edmonds (electric guitar, oud, saz); Nic Waterhouse (trombone); Ian McLaga...
The first four years of Billy Bragg's recording career (1982 to 1986) were a blur of record releases that established the froggy-voiced "Bard from Barking" as perhaps the most powerful and engaging political songwriter to emerge since the "...
It is likely that non-fans will have encountered the tracks on Life's a Riot on the re-packaged Back to Basics CD (which also included 1984's Brewing Up With Billy Bragg EP). However, it is useful to discuss this debut in its historical con...
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Billy Bragg & The Blokes include: Billy Bragg (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar); Ben (electric guitar, bouzouki, barizouki); Lu (guitar, ba...
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Billy Bragg & The Blokes include: Billy Bragg (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar); Ben (electric guitar, bouzouki, barizouki); Lu (guitar, ba...
Personnel: Billy Bragg (vocals, guitar); Kristy MacColl (vocals); Johnny Marr (guitar); John Porter (slide guitar, mandolin, bass); Bobby Valentino (violin); Dave Woodhead (trumpet, flugelhorn); Kenny Craddock (piano, organ); Simon Moreton,...
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Billy Bragg & The Blokes include: Billy Bragg (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar); Ben (electric guitar, bouzouki, barizouki); Lu (guitar, ba...
MERMAID AVENUE is 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.Billy Bragg & Wilco: Billy Bragg ...
When legendary U.S. protest singer Woody Guthrie, the man who was spiritual guru to Bob Dylan, died in 1967, he left behind a legacy of song lyrics which to this day have never been heard. When, in 1997, his daughter Nora decided these word...
What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? Our identity can change depending on what company we are in. This book presents ins...
Woody Guthrie is revealed to be as significant an artist as he was a song writer, poet, writer, and political activist in a collection of more than three hundred examples of never-before-published artworks and journal excerpts.