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Unlike a lot of my contemporaries I was never very enthralled with Billy Bragg. However I’ve always thought that California Stars was catchy and good. But maybe that’s all due to Wilco
Wilco was the less talented half of the Uncle Tupelo split. Jay Farrar and Son Volt are still amazing.
It's a good album that Mermaid Avenue, I had it on my Walkman first time I went to the States along with 80s Tom Waits.
Billy Bragg's reputation has suffered when it became known his missus is the interior designer to the stars and lives in a massive sprawling old hmansion in Burton Bradstock on the Dorset coast miles from the nearest chav and sink estate overlooking the English channel:
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Harriet Wheeler and Hope Sandaval used to be on every bowl cutted, anorak wearing, NME reading boys bedroom wall in my day
Mermaid is very good.
Saw Billy with Joe Henry last year, was a pretty good show.
He sold out a few shows here before Christmas. I didn't go, have seen him a few times.