Talking with the Taxman About Poetry - BONUS DISC
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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The cover to Billy Bragg's Talking with the Taxman About Poetry features the subtitle "the difficult third album," and while it's obviously meant as a joke, there's also a certain truth to...
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Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy - BONUS DISC
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Billy Bragg launched his career as a recording artist in 1983 with Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy, a seven-song EP that somehow sounded modest and wildly ambitious at the same time. Recorded fast,...
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Brewing Up with Billy Bragg - BONUS DISC
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Billy Bragg's first full-length album was a near-perfect distillation of his many facets -- one-man band, cheerful troublemaker, passionate if foghorn-voiced vocalist, rough but emphatic guitarist,...
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Volume 1
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Billy Bragg's first and best music reflected a union of two complementary musical approaches that had yet to be brought together -- the tradition of topical songwriting which dated back to the...
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The Internationale/Live and Dubious
Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Released: Feb 21, 2006
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Billy Bragg usually strove to strike a balance between populist politics and the affairs of the heart on his best albums (such as Brewing Up with Billy Bragg and Talking with the Taxman About...
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Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg - BONUS CD
Released: Oct 28, 2003
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Released: Oct 28, 2003
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In 1983, Billy Bragg was a guy with a cheap electric guitar, a rough but passionate voice, and a knack for writing and singing straight from the heart whether he was discussing leftist political...
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Man in the Sand
Released: Mar 27, 2001
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Released: Mar 27, 2001
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Man in the Sand documents the fascinating efforts of Billy Bragg to give tune to previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics. Along the way, he picks up sometimes uneasy collaborators Wilco....
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Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
Released: May 30, 2000
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Released: May 30, 2000
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Like many sequels, Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2 isn't the equal of its predecessor -- that felt fully realized, where this feels a little patchwork -- yet it is still satisfying on many levels. As on the...
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