Billy Bragg & Wilco
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
Recorded in Chicago and Dublin in the winter of '97. This is the
follow-up record to the Grammy-nominated Mermaid Avenue.
We were in Dublin in U2's studio when the Wilco boys took off on
a weekend jaunt to Spain. This left me and Billy and Corey Harris
in the studio to work on things. We recorded 'Against The Law' which
didn't make it on the original record and I added steel guitar to
'Unwelcome Guest', the final track on the original record.
It was quite interesting as my housemate was Jerry Boys, the engineer,
who had just recently finished engineering and mixing the Buena
Vista Social Club. We would come back from the studio each evening,
have a cognac and he would start telling stories about that record
- Cuba and Ry Cooder. It was fascinating. The best cognacs of my
life.
Three years later at a club in Toronto someone congratulated me
on my work on this record. I had no idea that 'Against the Law'
was on Mermaid II.
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