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A.V. Club DC

The Single File: Kirsty MacColl, “My Affair”
A.V. Club DC
Others would suggest that a sizable chunk of the thanks should go to Billy Bragg. In the UK, the skirmishes between these two factions have been known to linger well beyond last call, but there is a third and—in the US—substantially larger contingent ...

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Straight.com

Wilco leaves hungry fans happy at the Orpheum
Straight.com
Tweedy and those other guys even tapped into their 1998 collaboration with Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue, the singer musing that it would be great if “ 'Canada' was pronounced 'Ca-nah-dee-ah' ” so he could incorporate it into the song “California Stars”.

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Sidmouth Herald

The humour is sharp with Barb
Sidmouth Herald
Described by Billy Bragg as “possibly our best interpreter of Dylan's songs”, Barb has won two New York awards for her exciting live shows and a devoted cult following for her passionate singing, subtle arrangements, artistry and humour. barb plays ...

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Valentine's Day: Top 10 places to take your loved one in Staffordshire
This is Staffordshire
Granvilles Brasserie – a restaurant and music venue which has seen thousands of customers including Sir Cliff Richard, Lulu, Jasper Conran, Billy Bragg, Feargal Sharkey and The Hairy Bikers. A host of different menus are available and the owners say: ...

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Radiohead, Pixies, REM, Joy Division and more covered on "Under the Influence"
Fenway News Online
In addition to Pixies and Radiohead, Kolderie's credits include Billy Bragg, Buffalo Tom, Dinosaur Jr., Hole, Morphine, Portugal. The Man, and many more. The album features Julia Easterlin (Pixies, Radiohead), Da'Rayia (Gang of Four, Red Hot Chili ...

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Farrar, Johnson, Parker & Yames - New Multitudes
musicOMH.com
by Max Raymond Back in 1998 Nova Guthrie, daughter of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, invited Billy Bragg and Wilco to trawl through the many sets of unpublished lyrics and make their own recordings out of what they could find.

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Wilco feeling the whole love
Vancouver Sun
Mermaid Avenue, which Wilco released with Billy Bragg in 1998, fell in the Contemporary Folk category. A Ghost Is Born, which earned Wilco two Grammy Awards in 2005, was labelled Alternative. Sky Blue Sky was Rock. Wilco (The Album) was Americana.

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Ian O'Doherty: The Occupy crowd is destroying the little guy, not helping him
Irish Independent
We might even sing a few Chumbawamba and Billy Bragg songs. And Christy Moore will pop in from time to time. That'll really show The Man. Power to the people! Yay for me! That seems to be the level of political sophistication coming from the assorted ...

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Wilco feeling the whole love (with video)
Vancouver Sun
Mermaid Avenue, which Wilco released with Billy Bragg in 1998, fell in the Contemporary Folk category. A Ghost Is Born, which earned Wilco two Grammy Awards in 2005, was labelled Alternative. Sky Blue Sky was Rock. Wilco (The Album) was Americana.

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Wilco feeling the whole love
Vancouver Sun
Mermaid Avenue, which Wilco released with Billy Bragg in 1998, fell in the Contemporary Folk category. A Ghost Is Born, which earned Wilco two Grammy Awards in 2005, was labelled Alternative. Sky Blue Sky was Rock. Wilco (The Album) was Americana.

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VIDEO ROUNDUP: Woody Guthrie's legacy in song
Tulsa World (blog)
Here's one of Guthrie's songs, with music written to his lyrics by Billy Bragg and Wilco. "California Stars" was only a lyric sheet when he died in 1967. It was released in 1998 on the album "Mermaid Avenue." The project was put together by his ...
Opening Track: Jay Farrar/Will Johnson/Anders Parker/Yim Yames, New MultitudesA.V. Club (blog)

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Eastwood Advertiser

Andy tells of his adventures
Eastwood Advertiser
He has also worked for Mick Jagger and Billy Bragg, and boasts a record collection which he reckons weighs seven tons. Andy has combined his passion for music with a lunatic curiosity for frontline journalism, reporting from some of the world's most ...

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Ilkeston Today

Andy tells of his adventures
Ilkeston Today
He has also worked for Mick Jagger and Billy Bragg, and boasts a record collection which he reckons weighs seven tons. Andy has combined his passion for music with a lunatic curiosity for frontline journalism, reporting from some of the world's most ...

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Q&A: Rhiannon Stocking-Williams from Citizens Advice Bureau
Get Bracknell
Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Professor Brian Cox and Billy Bragg. What is your biggest regret? I'm far too young for regrets – ask me in 50 years. What makes you smile? My giant garden lilies in full bloom. What was your first job?

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This Is Fake DIY (blog)

Woody Sez: What Woody Guthrie Can Still Tell Us About Protest Singing
This Is Fake DIY (blog)
Dylan and the '60s folk revival owed him much; Bruce Springsteen has covered his songs and Billy Bragg, with Wilco, has recorded the Mermaid Avenue albums of Woody's previously unheard lyrics set to new tunes. Joe Strummer adopted the name Woody as a ...

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Q&A: Rhiannon Stocking-Williams
Get Bracknell
Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Professor Brian Cox and Billy Bragg. What is your biggest regret? I'm far too young for regrets – ask me in 50 years. What makes you smile? My giant garden lilies in full bloom. What was your first job?

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Telegraph.co.uk

Artists from Adele to Ziggy cover Dylan on four-disc compilation
St. George Daily Spectrum
Unfortunately, the greater message of this collection may be lost to some who purchase it simply for their love of Dylan's music or because they are intrigued by a compilation that includes Miley Cyrus, Billy Bragg, Joan Baez and Lenny Kravitz only a ...
Neil Finn covers Dylan for AmnestyThe West Australian

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Bridport: Retail queen Mary Portas is invited to town
Bridport and Lyme Regis News
They say that they thought Ms Portas might want to visit a thriving example of a British market town It outlines the area's popularity with such figures as singer Billy Bragg, chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and actor Martin Clunes as well as rock ...

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UK Festival Guides

Billy Bragg confirmed for Galtres Sunday night
UK Festival Guides
Billy Bragg will play Galtres Festival on Sunday August 26 2012, co-headlining the day with Seth Lakeman and The Men They Couldn't Hang. Billy Bragg has for more than 30 years expertly married folk, punk, poetry and politics in his unrelentingly ...

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Hot album releases for spring
Daily Camera
Jay Farrar of Son Volt, Will Johnson of Centro-matic, Anders Parker, and Jim James of My Morning Jacket (under his annoying pseudonym Yim Yames) go where Wilco and Billy Bragg have gone before in converting old Guthrie lyrics into ringing new folk-rock ...

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