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Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg (CD)

By: Billy Bragg (Artist)

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Billy Bragg Artist Snapshot:

Billy Bragg stands with one foot in the American dustbowl of Woody Guthrie and one in the anarchy of British punk. Bragg's early records from the 1980s were a revelation: the power and fury of punk transmitted via the age-old medium of a man alone with only his guitar. His songs address social injustices, workers' plights, and affairs of the heart with equal aplomb. In the late 1990s, Bragg embarked on a remarkable collaboration with the band Wilco, putting music to a treasure trove of newly discovered Woody Guthrie lyrics, and the 2000s saw his continued recording, writing, and political activism.

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DISC 1 for Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg (CD) Album By Billy Bragg (Artist)
1   New England, A
2   Man In The Iron Mask, The
3   Milkman Of Human Kindness
4   To Have And To Have Not
5   Lover Sings, A
6   St. Swithin's Day
7   Saturday Boy, The
8   Between The Wars
9   World Turned Upside Down, The
10   Levi Stubbs' Tears
11   Walk Away Renee
12   Greetings To The New Brunette
13   There Is Power In A Union
14   Help Save The Youth Of America
15   Warmest Room, The
16   Must I Paint You A Picture
17   She's Got A New Spell
18   Price I Pay, The
19   Valentine's Day Is Over
20   Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
 
DISC 2 for Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg (CD) Album By Billy Bragg (Artist)
1   Sexuality
2   Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
3   Moving The Goalposts
4   Tank Park Salute
5   You Woke Up My Neighborhood
6   Accident Waiting to Happen
7   Sulk
8   Upfield
9   Fourteenth Of February, The
10   Brickbat
11   Space Race Is Over, The
12   Boy Done Good, The
13   Ingrid Bergman
14   Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
15   My Flying Saucer
16   All You Fascists - (Blokes version)
17   NPWA
18   St. Monday
19   Sometimes I See The Point
20   Take Down The Union Jack - (band version)
 

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Review

Q (12/03, p.148) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...He was a singer of - as well as from - the heart, and so achingly romantic it's a wonder Willie Nelson never covered him..."
Dirty Linen (4/04, p.45) - "[Bragg] wielded an electric guitar like a post-apocalyptic Phil Ochs....He cuts loose on some great covers."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/03, p.136) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Simply, as with some of his best lines, stark to the point of being heartbreaking..."

Title Note

Initial pressing includes bonus CD.

Personnel inlcudes: Billy Bragg, Wiggy, Cara Tivey, Dave Woodhead, Johnny Marr, Kirsty MacColl, John Porter, Kenny Craddock, Danny Thompson, Simon Moreton, Tony Maronie, Bruce Thomas, Mickey Waller, Martin Belmont, Jayne Creamer, Kaya Jenner, Michelle Shocked, The Blokes, Wilco.

Producers includes: Grant Showbiz, Oliver Hitch, Edward de Bono, John Porter, Kenny Jones.

Compilation producer: Grant Showbiz.

Recorded between 1983 & 2001. Includes liner notes by Andrew Collins.

MUST I PAINT YOU A PICTURE, a double-disc, 40-song retrospective, covers the first 20 years of this extraordinary troubadour's career. A smart, sensitive anti-hero armed with a guitar, Bragg sings alternately about political issues and lost love with a startlingly literate wit. He recalls the early-'60s folk of Bob Dylan in his stark, solo sound and biting lyrics about social injustice, and also the legacy of punk in his passionate delivery, uncompromising stance, and aggressive phrasing (complemented by a pronounced accent that lets him chew words distinctively).

But the clincher is Bragg's songwriting. Lyrically and melodically, Bragg is a superior craftsman, as Disc One makes plain. Accompanied only by electric guitar, Bragg addresses economic inequalities ("To Have and To Have Not"), organized labor ("There Is Power in a Union"), and the trials of heartbreak (the achingly poignant "Valentine's Day is Over"). Disc Two, which features tracks from Bragg's '90s releases, finds the artist working a more pop-oriented sound with a full band. (Also included here are tracks from MERMAID AVENUE, Bragg's collaboration with Wilco on Woody Guthrie songs). A 10-song bonus disc adds to the value of this stellar compilation, a perfect introduction to the work of this brilliant performer.

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