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this week, the third album of the mermaid avenue sessions came out. if you don't know the story behind this, i'm going to give you a short (and probably not great) synopsis. let me start with the fact that you probably need to enjoy woody guthrie to enjoy this music. story goes that woody guthrie had all these lyrics to songs locked away in an attic (again, i am taking liberties with this story and i love to embellish the truth so take this with a grain of salt). his daughter had them and gave them to billy bragg, a british songwriter, who collaborated with wilco to record and produce the songs. now, what i also heard on a documentary or something at one time, was that woody had told bob dylan he could have the songs, which led to some controversy. but i could be making that up- like i said, lp always gets on me for "embellishing" (that's the nice way of saying it).

so, my favorite song is actually not from this newest volume that came out but from the first volume. if you haven't heard any of these, check them out.

i seriously love woody guthrie, and i really like these albums. on a side note, if you haven't heard much woody guthrie, you need to get on that. and townes van zandt. these guys are amazing and influenced a lot of the alt-country musicians that i love today. there are a few great documentaries on each of them. be here to love me  is about townes van zandt (if you need any more confirmation, imdb says it also 'stars' willie nelson, guy clark and joe ely) and i love ain't got no home on woody guthrie, which is a pbs documentary. sigh, i love pbs too. anyway, here's my favorite song from the sessions!!!