| Mermaid Avenue Vol. II | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Billy Bragg and Wilco |
| Cover: | Mermaid2.jpg |
| Released: | 30 May 2000 |
| Recorded: | Boston, Chicago, and Dublin |
| Genre: | Folk rock |
| Length: | 49:47 |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Producer: | Wilco, Billy Bragg, Grant Showbiz |
| Chronology: | Billy Bragg |
| Prev Title: | Reaching to the Converted |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | England, Half-English |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Mermaid Avenue Vol. II is a 2000 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and American band Wilco. It continues the project originally conceived by Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie which resulted in the release of Mermaid Avenue in 1998. Both volumes were collected in a 2012 box set along with volume three as .
Track 9 "Blood of the Lamb" is Woody's overhaul of an 1878 gospel music standard "Are You Washed in the Blood?" written by Elisha A. Hoffman.[1]
Man in the Sand, a documentary about the collaboration between Bragg and Wilco, was released in 1999.
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