{"id":6587,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:52:36","slug":"new-music-revue-billy-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/20\/new-music-revue-billy-bragg\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Billy Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Billy Bragg<\/p>\n

Tooth and Nail<\/i><\/p>\n

(Dine Alone Records)<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

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Tooth and Nail<\/i>, Billy Bragg\u2019s first studio solo album in five years, is definitely a lot more listenable and thoughtful than past albums, but it doesn\u2019t quite stand up next to the three Mermaid Avenue<\/i> albums he did with Wilco, where they used Woody Guthrie lyrics.<\/p>\n

Bragg writes the kind of protest songs that are usually heard mid-day at folk festivals. The new album is a little outdated and is clearly not targeted towards the modern youth, but it does have a lot to say.<\/p>\n

The album is politically charged and has clear inspirational and anti-establishment messages about empowering the people and not being tied down by the illusions of being dependent on society\u00c9 if you\u2019re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Much better than the protest songs are the romantic songs on the album: they are charmingly corny, humbly hokey, and quite thoughtful.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very apparent that Tooth and Nail<\/i> is the album of an aging freedom fighter.<\/p>\n

-Nick Joy<\/p>\n

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Billy Bragg Tooth and Nail (Dine Alone Records) 3.5\/5   Tooth and Nail, Billy Bragg\u2019s first studio solo album in five years, is definitely a lot more listenable and thoughtful than past albums, but it doesn\u2019t quite stand up next to the three Mermaid Avenue albums he did with Wilco, where they used Woody Guthrie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-20-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t