Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (2026 Reissue) 7-LP + 7" Box Set - Pre-Order

Artists: Billy Bragg & Wilco
*Estimated shipping date December 14, 2026

Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions brings together all three volumes of Billy Bragg and Wilco’s celebrated interpretations of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics. 

This box set features:
- Deluxe 7-LP + 7" vinyl box set featuring all three Mermaid Avenue volumes, plus rare and previously unreleased recordings
- Includes 16 previously unreleased tracks, featuring alternate takes, demos and live performances
- Bonus 7" featuring a Woody Guthrie home demo
- 180-gram vinyl pressed at Furnace Record Pressing
- Mastering of Vols. I–III by Robert C. Ludwig at Gateway Mastering (2012)
- Alternates & Demos bonus disc mastered by Paul Blakemore
- All vinyl lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
- New liner notes by Bob Mehr

TRACK LISTING:

Side A – Mermaid Avenue

1. Walt Whitman's Niece
2. California Stars
3. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

Side B – Mermaid Avenue

4. Birds and Ships
5. Hoodoo Voodoo
6. She Came Along to Me
7. At My Window Sad and Lonely

Side C – Mermaid Avenue

8. Ingrid Bergman
9. Christ for President
10. I Guess I Planted
11. One by One

Side D – Mermaid Avenue

12. Eisler on the Go
13. Hesitating Beauty
14. Another Man's Done Gone
15. Unwelcome Guest

Side E – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

1. Airline to Heaven
2. My Flying Saucer
3. Feed of Man

Side F – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

4. Hot Rod Hotel
5. I Was Born
6. Secret of the Sea
7. Stetson Kennedy

Side G – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

8. Remember the Mountain Bed
9. Blood of the Lamb
10. Aginst Th' Law

Side H – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II

11. All You Fascists
12. Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
13. Meanest Man
14. Black Wind Blowing
15. Someday Some Morning Sometime

Side I – Mermaid Avenue Vol. III

1. Bugeye Jim
2. When The Roses Bloom Again
3. Gotta Work
4. My Thirty Thousand

Side J – Mermaid Avenue Vol. III

5. Ought To Be Satisfied Now
6. Listening To The Wind That Blows
7. Go Down To The Water
8. Chain Of Broken Hearts

Side K – Mermaid Avenue Vol. III

9. Jailcell Blues
10. Don’t You Marry
11. Give Me A Nail
12. The Jolly Banker
13. Union Prayer

Side L – Mermaid Avenue Vol. III

14. Be Kind To The Boy On The Road
15. Ain’ta Gonna Grieve
16. Tea Bag Blues
17. I’m Out To Get 

Side M - Alternatives & Demos

1.  California Stars (Live)

2.  Against Th’ Law (Alternate Version)*

3.  All You Fascists (Alternate Version)*

4.  I Guess I Planted (Alternate Version)*

5.  She Came Along To Me (Alternate Version)*

6.  Hesitating Beauty (Solo Version)*

7.  Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (Demo)*

8.  Psalm (Demo)*

Side N – Alternatives & Demos

1.  Hot Rod Hotel (Demo)*

2. Christ For President (Solo Version)*

3.  Give Me A Nail (Demo)*

4.  Long & Hard (Demo)*

5.  I Was Born (Demo)*

6.  At My Window Sad And Lonely (Solo Version)

7.  Birds And Ships (Demo)*

8.  The Unwelcome Guest (Demo)*

9.  Airline To Heaven (Solo Version)*

Bonus 7” (Single-Sided):

1. Hesitating Beauty (Woody’s Home Tape)*

* Previously unreleased

Craft Recordings. 2026.