Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions
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| Box set by Billy Bragg and Wilco | |||||
| Released | April 21, 2012 | ||||
| Recorded | Boston, Chicago, and Dublin | ||||
| Genre | Folk revival, folk rock | ||||
| Language | English | ||||
| Label | Nonesuch | ||||
| Producer | Billy Bragg, Grant Showbiz, Wilco | ||||
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| Allmusic |   |
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| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Consequence of Sound | |
| Drowned in Sound | (9/10) |
| The Phoenix | |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.1/10) |
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| Rolling Stone | |
| Uncut | (7/10) |
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions is a 2012 box set album featuring the lyrics of American folk musician Woody Guthrie set to music by English folk rock guitarist Billy Bragg and American alternative rock band Wilco. The set contains all the tracks from the previously released Mermaid Avenue (1998) and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000) as well as a third disc of outtakes from the original album sessions.
Nonesuch Records released the album for Record Store Day to commemorate Guthrie's 100th birthday. In addition to the three albums, the box set includes the documentary Man in the Sand about the making of the Mermaid Avenue project.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
The A.V. Club gave the box set an A−.
All lyrics written by Woody Guthrie. Music by Billy Bragg and Wilco.
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