Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions [7LP]

Due for release 11th December 2026 via Craft Recordings

7LP Box + 7"

The acclaimed Mermaid Avenue series returns in an expanded edition, uniting Billy Bragg and Wilco's celebrated interpretations of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics. 

Featuring all three volumes alongside previously unreleased material including rare demos, alternate takes, and live recordings, this definitive collection highlights one of modern folk-rock's most inspired collaborations.

7-LP box set plus bonus single-sided 7" vinyl of Woody Guthrie performing "Hesitating Beauty" (from Woody's Home Tape) with new liner notes by Bob Mehr and deluxe packaging.  

The acclaimed Mermaid Avenue series returns in an expanded edition, uniting 
Billy Bragg and Wilco's celebrated interpretations of previously unheard 
Woody Guthrie lyrics. Featuring all three volumes alongside previously unreleased material including rare demos, alternate takes, and live recordings, this definitive collection highlights one of modern folk-rock's most inspired collaborations. 7-LP box set plus bonus single-sided 7" vinyl of Woody Guthrie performing "Hesitating Beauty" (from Woody's Home Tape) with new liner notes by Bob Mehr and deluxe packaging. 

Tracks: Walt Whitman's Niece / California Stars / Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key / 
Birds And Ships feat. Natalie Merchant / Hoodoo Voodoo / She Came Along To Me / 
At My Window Sad And Lonely / Ingrid Bergman / Christ For President / I Guess I 
Planted / One By One / Eisler On The Go / Hesitating Beauty / Another Man's Done 
Gone / The Unwelcome Guest / Airline To Heaven / My Flying Saucer / Feed Of Man / Hot Rod Hotel / I Was Born / Secret Of The Sea / Stetson Kennedy / Remember The 
Mountain Bed / Blood Of The Lamb / Aginst Th' Law / All You Fascists / Joe DiMaggio Done It Again / Meanest Man / Black Wind Blowing / Someday Some Morning 
Sometime / Bugeye Jim / When The Roses Bloom Again / Gotta Work / My Thirty 
Thousand / Ought To Be Satisfied Now / Listening To The Wind That Blows / Go Down To The Water / Chain Of Broken Hearts / Jailcell Blues / Don't You Marry / Give Me A Nail / The Jolly Banker / Union Prayer / Be Kind To The Boy On The Road / Ain'ta Gonna Grieve / Tea Bag Blues / I'm Out To Get / California Stars (Live) / Aginst Th' Law (Alternate Version) / All You Fascists (Alternate Version) / I Guess I Planted 
(Alternate Version) / She Came Along To Me (Alternate Version) / Hesitating Beauty 
(Solo Version) / Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (Demo) / Psalm (Demo) / Hot Rod Hotel 
(Demo) / Christ For President (Solo Version) / Give Me A Nail (Demo) / Long & Hard 
(Demo) / I Was Born (Demo) / At My Window Sad And Lonely (Solo Version) / Birds 
And Ships (Demo) / The Unwelcome Guest (Demo) / Airline To Heaven (Solo 
Version) / Woody Guthrie - Hesitating Beauty (Demo)