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So... Mavis Staples and Billy Bragg are playing together at the Portsmouth Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH on March 25th. The very next night Tweedy is playing a mere 45 minutes north in Portland, ME. What are the chances that Tweedy might take the stage for a couple of songs with Staples and Bragg? It would be pretty damn special IMO.

 

... I need to give credit to my wife for putting two and two together here.

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I Don't thunk Bragg and JT really like each other

 

I just saw a video of Bragg saying that there were 13 more Guthrie songs that He and Wilco wanted to record and its Guthries 100th birthday next year and he wanted to get back together with Wilco to record the songs. I'll see if I can find the video.

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I just saw a video of Bragg saying that there were 13 more Guthrie songs that He and Wilco wanted to record and its Guthries 100th birthday next year and he wanted to get back together with Wilco to record the songs. I'll see if I can find the video.

Yes, I'd like to see that.

 

I Don't thunk Bragg and JT really like each other

Here's a link to another thread about this. http://forums.viachicago.org/topic/43326-more-mermaid-avenue/

 

 

Bragg mentions Wilco/Jeff in this Sep 2010 Billboard article where he discusses his upcoming album with Rosanne Cash and Joe Henry. I'll quote the Wilco/JT specific paragraphs here:

Bragg acknowledges that the project in some way parallels his two "Mermaid Avenue" albums with Wilco in 1998 and 2000 -- when they crafted new songs from unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics -- though he adds those sessions were not as acrimonious as has sometimes been reported.

 

"People always talk about the problems between me and Jeff Tweedy," Bragg notes. "There wasn't any problem except neither one of us had ever worked on a record in which somebody else had say in what the mix would sound like. But we worked our way through it, and since then I've been more relaxed about it. The great breakthrough working with Wilco, for me, was how great it is to be in the studio with someone else who can bring ideas. On my subsequent two albums with the Blokes [2002's "England, Half-English" and 2008's "Mr. Love & Justice"] were very conducive to that."

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