Some years back, the daughter of Woodie Guthrie asked Billy Bragg to set some of her dad's unrecorded lyrics to music. Bragg recruited the band Wilco to help out, and they collaborated on two albums under the name of Mermaid Ave., Volumes 1 and 2 (Mermaid Ave. was the address of the house where the lyrics had been discovered). Here's one of my favorites from that project, "California Stars," performed by Wilco.
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