Woody Guthrie Foundation - Posthumous Collaborations

Posthumous Collaborations

• 1998 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue (album), with guest vocalist Natalie Merchant on tracks 3 & 4.
• 1999 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - She Came Along to Me (EP) - the title track is a single from the 1998 album, with alternate versions of 2 other tracks from that album, plus 2 additional tracks that were later included in Volume III.
• 2000 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (album), with guest vocalists Natalie Merchant and Corey Harris featured on 1 track each - this album was culled from the same recording sessions as the 1998 album.
• 2000 - (various artists) - Till We Outnumber 'Em (album) - (1 track is Billy Bragg's vocal of "Aginst th' Law", previously sung by Corey Harris).
• 2000 - Slaid Cleaves - "This Morning I Am Born Again" (single)
• 2001 - Frankie Fuchs - Daddy-O Daddy (album), with musicians including Joe Ely and Taj Mahal.
• 2003 - Hans-Eckardt Wenzel - Ticky Tock (album, English and German versions)
• 2003 - Blackfire - Woody Guthrie Singles (album)
• 2003 - Anti-Flag - "Post-War Breakout" (single)
• 2003 - Joel Rafael - Woodeye: Songs of Woody Guthrie (album) - (This album includes 12 Guthrie covers, 1 Rafael original and 1 collaboration: "Dance a Little Longer".)
• 2004 - Eliza Gilkyson - "Peace Call" (single)
• 2004 - Janis Ian - "I Hear You Sing Again" (single)
• 2005 - Ray Wylie Hubbard - Delirium Tremolos (album), - (1 track is a group-sing acappella cover of Slaid Cleaves' "This Morning I am Born Again").
• 2005 - Joel Rafael - Woodyboye: Songs Of Woody Guthrie And Tales Worth Telling, Vol. 2 (album) - (This album is a mix of Woody Guthrie covers and 4 posthumous collaborations.)
• 2006 - Klezmatics - Wonder Wheel (album)
• 2006 - Klezmatics - Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah (album) - (This album is a mix of Woody Guthrie covers, posthumous collaborations and Klezmatics instrumentals.)
• 2006 - Ellis Paul - "God's Promise" (single)
• 2008 - Jonatha Brooke - The Works (album)
• 2011 - Rob Wasserman and others - Note of Hope (album), a project long in the making, featuring musicians and narrators including Van Dyke Parks, Madeleine Peyroux, Tom Morello, Lou Reed, Michael Franti, Kurt Elling, Ani DiFranco, Studs Terkel, Nellie McKay, Pete Seeger, Tony Trischka, and Jackson Browne - unlike the other recordings listed here, this album features Woody's prose writings, some read with jazz backing tracks and others ingeniously set to music.
• 2011 - Jackson Browne and Rob Wasserman - "You Know the Night" (single) - (This is a radio edit 4:02 in length, the original album track being 14:52 long).
• 2012 - Jay Farrar and others - New Multitudes (album), with musicians including Will Johnson, Anders Parker, and Yim Yames.
• 2012 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. III (album), a collection of outtakes from the sessions in the late 1990s, including 2 tracks with guest vocals by Corey Harris. One of the songs on this album, "When the Roses Bloom Again", is set to lyrics actually written by Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards, but Jeff Tweedy of Wilco apparently found the words among Woody's writings in the archive and wrote a new tune.
• 2012 - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue the Complete Sessions (album) - simultaneously released with Vol. III, this set contains all three volumes plus a booklet, along with a DVD of "Man in the Sand".

Interestingly, one of the lyrics chosen by Billy Bragg and appearing in the second Mermaid Avenue album, "All You Fascists", has subsequently surfaced in a recording of a 1944 radio program "The Martins and the McCoys". Guthrie appeared in the program with other folk singers and can be heard singing "All of You Fascists Bound to Lose", set to his original melody which is of course substantially different from Bragg's melody.