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Billy Bragg The Roaring Forty | 1983 – 2023 (Deluxe Limited Edition Green Vinyl) 3LP

2023 will see Billy Bragg and Cooking Vinyl celebrating forty years of music from the singer, songwriter, activist and author, with a selection of releases to appeal to casual admirers and die hard fans alike. Each format has been compiled by Billy. A 40-song LTD Edition Deluxe 3LP collection on three shades of green vinyl, contains a download card.

“It seems like just the other day that I was handing John Peel a mushroom biryani and asking him to play my first record. The music business has changed dramatically since then, but my belief in the power of the song is undimmed.” Billy Bragg 2023

Track Listing –

A1. Billy Bragg ‘A New England (2013 Remaster) from ‘Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy (1983)
A2. Billy Bragg ‘The Milkman Of Human Kindness’ (2013 Remaster) from ‘Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy’ (1983)
A3. Billy Bragg ‘To Have And Have Not’ (2013 Remaster) from ‘Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy’ (1983)
A4. Billy Bragg ‘The Man In The Iron Mask’ (2013 Remaster) from ‘Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy’ (1983)
A5. Billy Bragg ‘St. Swithin’s Day’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Brewing Up With’ (1984)
A6. Billy Bragg ‘The Saturday Boy’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Brewing Up With’ (1984)
A7. Billy Bragg ‘Between The Wars’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Between The Wars E.P.’ (1985)
A8. Billy Bragg ‘The World Turned Upside Down’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Between The Wars E.P.’ (1985)
A9. Billy Bragg ‘Which Side Are You On?’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Between The Wars E.P.’ (1985)

B1. Billy Bragg ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Levi Stubbs’ Tears’ (1986)
B2. Billy Bragg ‘Greetings To The New Brunette’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Talking With The Taxman About Poetry’ (1986)
B3. Billy Bragg ‘There Is Power In A Union’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Talking With The Taxman About Poetry’ (1986)
B4. Billy Bragg ‘Help Save The Youth Of America’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Talking With The Taxman About Poetry’ (1986)
B5. Billy Bragg ‘She’s Leaving Home’ (1999 Remaster) from ‘She’s Leaving Home’ (1988)
B6. Billy Bragg ‘She’s Got A New Spell’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Worker’s Playtime’ (1988)
B7. Billy Bragg ‘Must I Paint You A Picture’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Worker’s Playtime’ (1988)

C1. Billy Bragg ‘Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Worker’s Playtime’ (1988)
C2. Billy Bragg ‘The Internationale’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘The Internationale’ (1990)
C3. Billy Bragg ‘Tank Park Salute’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Don’t Try This At Home’ (1991)
C4. Billy Bragg ‘Sexuality’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Don’t Try This At Home’ (1991)
C5. Billy Bragg ‘Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)’ (1999 Remaster) from ‘Accident Waiting To Happen’ (1992)
C6. Billy Bragg ‘Upfield’ from ‘William Bloke’ (1996)

D1. Billy Bragg ‘The Boy Done Good’ (1999 Remaster) from ‘Bloke On Bloke’ (1997)
D2. Billy Bragg and Wilco ‘Walt Whitman’s Niece’ from ‘Mermaid Avenue’ (1998)
D3. Billy Bragg and Wilco ‘Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key’ from ‘Mermaid Avenue’ (1998)
D4. Billy Bragg and Wilco ‘My Flying Saucer’ from ‘Mermaid Avenue II’ (2000)
D5. Billy Bragg & The Blokes ‘California Stars (Live October / November 1999)’ from ‘Mermaid Avenue Tour / You Can Call Me Cupcake’ (1999)
D6. Billy Bragg ‘Some Days I See The Point’ from ‘England, Half English’ (2002)

E1. Billy Bragg & The Blokes ‘England, Half English’ from ‘England, Half English’ (2002)
E2. Billy Bragg ‘Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)’ (2006 Remaster) from ‘Take Down The Union Jack’ (2002)
E3. Billy Bragg ‘Old Clash Fan Fight Song’ from ‘Johnny Clash’ (2007)
E4. Billy Bragg ‘I Keep Faith’ from ‘Mr. Love & Justice’ (2008)
E6. Billy Bragg ‘Bugeye Jim’ from ‘Mermaid Avenue III’ (2012)
E6. Billy Bragg ‘Never Buy The Sun’ from ‘Fight Songs (A Decade Of Downloads)’ (2011)

F1. Billy Bragg ‘No One Knows Nothing Anymore’ from ‘Tooth & Nail’ (2013)
F2. Billy Bragg ‘Handyman Blues’ from ‘Tooth & Nail’ (2013)
F3. Billy Bragg and Joe Henry ‘The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore’ from ‘Shine A Light: Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad’ (2016)
F4. Billy Bragg ‘King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood’ from ‘Bridges Not Walls’ (2017)
F5. Billy Bragg ‘Mid-Century Modern’ from ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ (2021)
F6. Billy Bragg ‘I Will Be Your Shield’ from ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ (2021)