Billy Bragg | Talking with the Taxman About Poetry | 2CD

Billy Bragg is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music brings personal stories and political concerns into direct, distinctive songs. His recordings range from spare voice-and-guitar performances to fuller band arrangements, with lyrical detail and expressive delivery remaining central.

Talking with the Taxman About Poetry presents Billy Bragg in this CD edition. The programme includes Greetings to the New Brunette, Train Train, The Marriage, bringing the individual performances together within the release’s recorded sequence.

Track List

1. Greetings to the New Brunette
2. Train Train
3. The Marriage
4. Ideology
5. Levi Stubbs' Tears
6. Honey I'm a Big Boy Now
7. There Is Power in a Union
8. Help Save the Youth of America
9. Wishing the Days Away
10. The Passion
11. The Warmest Room
12. The Home Front
13. Sin City
14. Deportees
15. There Is Power in a Union (Inst.)
16. Tracks of My Tears
17. Wishing the Days Away (Alt.)
18. The Clashing of Ideologies
19. Greetings to the New Brunette (Demo)
20. A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
21. Only Bad Signs
22. Hold the Fort