Bragg album reissues in USA confirmed

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Bragg album reissues in USA confirmed
04/11/05YEP ROC RECORDS PRESS RELEASE:

On February 21, 2006, Yep Roc Records will simultaneously reissue in the USA four Billy Bragg back-catalogue titles including rare and previously unreleased material, available singly and as a 9-disc box set that will include a booklet, 7 audio CDs and 2 DVDs of vintage live footage.

„Trying to change the world by singing about it is a dirty business but someone has to do it.“ — Billy Bragg, 1988

England’s Billy Bragg, described as a „national treasure“ in his home country, has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. In doing so, he’s forged a career that’s spanned decades, political regimes and musical fashions while managing to endure as a voice for reason and political accountability as well as compassion for his fellow man.

Balancing his earthy love songs with the musical activist tradition of the leftist troubadours of old (Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie), Bragg, armed only with a cheap electric guitar, travelled the world as a one-man punk-folk ambassador. His well-honed wit and way with a musical hook, not to mention his non-rock star ethic — he once said, „razor blades are for shaving and pound notes are for putting in the bank, not up the nose“ — have made him a modern working-class hero.

On February 21, 2006, Yep Roc Records will re-issue Bragg’s first four releases singly and as a 7-CD box set that will also include 2 bonus DVDs with previously unavailable live footage. This will coincide with Bragg’s appearance at Austin’s
South by Southwest music conference in March 2006, followed by a two-week U.S. tour.

First up is 1983’s Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy, an EP done on the cheap which went on to sell over 100K copies in the UK alone with no advertising, no video, no rock-star poses. Next up are 1984’s Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, Talking to the Taxman About Poetry (1986), and a release that combines the Live & Dubious and Internationale EPs (1988 and 1990, respectively). Each release will feature the re-mastered original and a second disc of bonus material, much of it previously unavailable and handpicked by Billy and longtime Bragg cohorts Grant Showbiz and Wiggy — a labor of love indeed.

More punk than folk, Bragg’s forcefully strummed guitar and rough-around-the-ages vocals (not to mention thick Cockney accent) belie his keen sense of melody and ability to write instantly memorable pop songs (a la Ray Davies). Maybe the universal nature of Bragg’s appeal comes from the fact that he doesn’t just deal in the politics of governments and world leaders but also in dynamics of love and sexuality. And while some of these songs are over two decades old, this collection — heard against the current backdrop of faith-based initiatives and global conflicts — sounds as current as ever in its call for understanding and empathy.

Billy Bragg, we need you now more than ever.
Yep Roc Records

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„Volume 1 of Bragg box set out on 6 March in UK 29/01/06
„Trying to change the world by singing about it is a dirty business, but someone has to do it.“ – Billy Bragg, 1988

Billy Bragg releases four of his earliest and most acclaimed albums on ‚Billy Bragg Volume 1‘ – a boxed set featuring seven CDs and two DVDs with a wealth of rare and previously unreleased tracks – which is in UK stores on Monday, 6 March 2006. All four albums will be also available as individual releases on the same day. All are released on the Cooking Vinyl label in the UK.

The boxed set consists of:
1. ‚Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy‘ – Billy’s 1983 debut recording together with a bonus CD featuring 11 extra tracks. ‚Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy‘ is also separately released as a two-CD set.

2. ‚Brewing Up with Billy Bragg‘ – the original 1984 album and a bonus CD with 11 additional tracks. The album is also separately available as a two-CD set.

3. ‚Talking with the Taxman About Poetry‘ – Billy’s 1986 album plus 10 extra tracks on a bonus CD. ‚Talking with the Taxman About Poetry‘ is also separately released as a two-CD set.

4. ‚The Internationale‘ – Billy’s 1990 release, now combined with his ‚Live & Dubious‘ EP and five bonus tracks. The package comes with a bonus DVD called ‚Here & There‘ documenting Bragg’s then-pioneering appearances in East Berlin, Nicaragua and Lithuania during the Eighties. The album is also separately available as a two-disc set.

5. ‚From the West Down to the East‘ – a DVD featuring the South Bank Show’s March 1985 profile of Billy Bragg together with film of his August 1986 concert in East Berlin. This DVD is exclusive to the boxed set.

‚Billy Bragg Volume 1‘ chronicles Bragg’s extraordinary contribution to the political and cultural ferment of the Eighties. Balancing his earthy love songs with the enduring tradition of such leftist troubadours as Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie, Bragg – armed only with a cheap electric guitar – emerged as a completely compelling and totally convincing one-man punk-folk activist.“
so heißt es auf der offiziellen b.b. page
wer noch unbedarft ist in sachen bragg, darf hier zugreifen.

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[clementine Registriert seit: 27.06.2003 Beiträge: 115]

die box bzw. die einzelnen re-issues wird es in deutschland ab dem 3.3. geben!!

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