“Mermaid Avenue is a collection of recently discovered Guthrie lyrics now set to music for the first time. It’s also nothing that the previous work of those involved could have led anyone to expect. Mermaid Avenue is not the place to discover Woody Guthrie; it may not even be the place to discover Wilco or Billy Bragg. The record is a thing in itself, perhaps standing outside the stories told by the careers of its principals, as if already looking back on all their failures, saying this time you got it right”
– @rollingstone
