Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars (High Quality)

When Wilco & Billy Bragg collaborated to use the lyrics from Woody Guthrie's notebooks that he never got a chance to write music for and record, it was a special project. They put out two great records worth of that material (Mermaid Avenue Vols. 1 and 2).

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