| Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions | |
| Type: | box |
| Artist: | Billy Bragg and Wilco |
| Cover: | Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Avenue - The Complete Sessions.jpg |
| Alt: | A black-and-white photo of a man building a sand castle on a beach with several children standing around him, one of whom is pointing toward the body of water. Superimposed text reads "BILLY / BRAGG / & WILCO" in orange, "MERMAID AVENUE" in blue, and "the complete sessions" in black script. |
| Recorded: | 1997–1998 |
| Studio: | Boston, Chicago, and Dublin |
| Language: | English |
| Label: | Nonesuch |
| Producer: | Wilco, Billy Bragg, Grant Showbiz |
| Chronology: | Billy Bragg |
| Prev Title: | Fight Songs |
| Prev Year: | 2011 |
| Next Title: | Tooth & Nail |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions is a 2012 box set of albums by Billy Bragg & Wilco, all of which feature songs consisting of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie set to newly created music. It was released by Nonesuch Records on Record Store Day to commemorate Guthrie's 100th birthday.
The set contains all of the tracks from the previously released Mermaid Avenue (1998) and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000), as well as a third disc of outtakes from the original album sessions in 1997 and 1998. A DVD containing the documentary Man in the Sand (1999), which is about the "Mermaid Avenue" project, is included as a fourth disc.
On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the set has an average score of 85 based on 12 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[1] The A.V. Club gave it an A−.[2]
Disc 4: Man in the Sand (DVD)