In 1998, between their first masterpiece Being There and their next masterpiece Summerteeth, Wilco teamed up with the English folksinger Billy Bragg to release Mermaid Avenue, a batch of newly written songs built from old unused Woody Guthrie lyrics. It’s where Wilco got “California Stars,” a perennial live staple, and they followed it up in 2000 with Mermaid Ave. Vol. II. The original album came back in the spotlight in June, when Wilco and Bragg performed it in full for the first time at Wilco’s Solid Sound festival. Now the Mermaid Avenue renaissance continues with a new box set.
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