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Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy (credited to Billy Bragg) was released in July 1983 by Charisma's new imprint, Utility. Hearing DJ John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, Bragg rushed to the BBC with a mushroom biryani , so Peel played "The Milkman of Human Kindness" from Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy albeit at the wrong speed (since the 12 ...
The discography of British singer-songwriter Billy Bragg includes 13 studio albums (including two with Wilco and one with The Blokes), six live albums, 12 compilation albums, five extended plays, and 20 singles.
Man in the Sand, a documentary about the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, was released in 1999. A DVD of the film is included in Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions . Bob Dylan tells in his autobiography that Woody Guthrie asked him to reach out to Guthrie's wife Margie and get the boxes of songs and poems that had been written ...
Bragg describes the album as "first pandemic blues album of our times but also a heartfelt paean to human resilience." [1] The album was produced by Romeo Stodart, of the Magic Numbers, with Dave Izumi. The instrumentation includes a 1960s mellotron, which provided a "wonderful kind of woozy, dreamlike sound", according to Bragg. [2]
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, released in September 1986. With production by John Porter and Kenny Jones, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry featured more musicians than Bragg's previous works, which were generally little more than Bragg himself and a guitar. There were two singles released from the ...
William Bloke is the seventh album by alternative folk artist Billy Bragg, released in September 1996, five years after his last studio album. It peaked at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart . [ 5 ] The album's only single, "Upfield", reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1996. [ 5 ]
Workers Playtime is a 1988 album by Billy Bragg.Originally released on the Go!Discs label, it is his fourth release but third full-length album. It was reissued on compact disc in September 1996 on the Cooking Vinyl label before being remastered, expanded and reissued in 2006 on Cooking Vinyl in the UK and on the Yep Roc label in the United States.
England, Half-English is a 2002 album by English political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg and the Blokes.. The title track is about racism in England and the anti-immigration feelings and racist abuse of asylum seekers fuelled by the tabloid press, particularly the Daily Mail.