Reuters - Oct 24, 2008
Fatherhood and a 16-year relationship with his partner have mellowed singer Billy Bragg, lending his latest album a softer, more soulful sound than the rousing, sometimes angry, songs of politics and...
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Ever since his 1983 mini-album Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy, folk-rock artist Billy Bragg has been known as a spokesman for a generation. But where his politically charged anthems and offstage...
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Billy Bragg, Hard-Fi, and Clash band members Mick Jones and Topper Headon are to play a benefit concert for striking firefighters. The gig will mark the fifth anniversary of the now-legendary show that...
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Initially, Billy Bragg s gig Wednesday at the Music Box appeared as if it was going to be a drag. Before the Brit punk-folk vet hit the stage, attendance was so sparse that the balcony was closed. But...
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Cameron Crowe was on tour with his wife, musician Nancy Wilson. He gazed out the bus window at the Kentucky landscape and thought of his father; he had not been back to Kentucky since his dad s funeral...
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Woody Guthrie was a dust bowl drifter, a guitar strummer and a proto-folkie who wrote enduring songs about America s workers and underdogs. He also was a longtime New York City resident who relished Jewish...
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Britain s music world heaped tributes upon the late John Peel, crediting the maverick BBC disc jockey with transforming the country s popular music scene. The 65-year-old Peel, who died of a heart attack...
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Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event founder Neil Young on the bill for the...
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Wilco s main man can t stand it anymore. Jeff Tweedy, the singer-songwriter behind the seminal alt-country band, has checked himself into a drug rehabilitation center to treat an addiction to prescription...
More »Reuters - Mar 9, 2004
The Faces, a band known as much for its excess as for its music, will return for one more round with the four-disc box set Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a Bar... Due May 25 from Rhino, the collection...
More »AP - Nov 26, 2003
Steve Earle is a shadow of his former self. Seriously. He s been on the Atkins diet, which has stripped more than 50 pounds off his frame, and the 48-year-old singer-songwriter is nearly unrecognizable...
More »AP - Nov 11, 2003
Musicians worried that new media ownership rules will make it harder to get airtime are taking the fight from the Capitol to their own turf, embarking on a grass-roots music tour to lobby for legislation...
More »Reuters - Oct 30, 2003
R.E.M . s Mike Mills, singer/songwriter Jill Sobule and Boots Riley of rap act the Coup will join select dates on the Tell Us the Truth tour, which kicks off Nov. 7 in Madison, Wis. The trek will also...
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Bluesman Corey Harris will release his fifth studio album, Mississippi to Mali, on Nov. 18 via Rounder Records. His second set for the label, the album will feature a number of guests, including guitarists...
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2/8/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- The songs of Woody Guthrie will again get the spotlight with the release of Man In The Sand, a DVD and VHS about the making of Mermaid Avenue, the Billy Bragg/Wilco collaboration...
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(6/15/00, 4 p.m. ET) - Mermaid Avenue Volume 2, the sequel to the Grammy-winning, Woody Guthrie-inspired Mermaid Avenue, is currently in stores, and co-writer Billy Bragg says fans may see it live this...
More »USRN - Nov 19, 1998
(11/19/98, 12 p.m. PST) - For those who can t get enough of Mermaid Avenue--the collaborative effort featuring Billy Bragg and Wilco providing music for previously-unreleased song lyrics by Woody Guthrie...
More »USRN - Jul 31, 1998
(7/31/98, 12 p.m. PDT) - The WOMAD festival begins today in Seattle, kicking off a three-day celebration of world music. The festival is renowned in the U.K., but this is the first time it is hitting...
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(7/2/98) - Summer blockbuster films aren t only knocking em dead at the box office, they ve spawned some of the biggest albums of the season. On the new album chart the City Of Angels soundtrack stays...
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(6/17/98) - Those hoping to see Billy Bragg and Wilco join forces to tour in support of Mermaid Avenue, their collaborative effort due Tuesday on Elektra Entertainment, may be a bit disappointed. The...
More »USRN - Sep 26, 1997
(9/26/97) - Political English folkie Billy Bragg will soon get together with Wilco s Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett to record several unfinished songs by the late Woody Guthrie. According to the Associated...
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