The Internationale (album)
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| EP by Billy Bragg | ||
| Released | May 1990 | |
| Recorded | ??? | |
| Genre | Folk | |
| Length | 19:23 | |
| Label | Liberation Records, Utility Records | |
| Producer(s) | Grant Showbiz & Wiggy | |
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| Billy Bragg chronology | ||
| Workers Playtime (1988) | The Internationale (1990) | The Peel Sessions Album (1991) |
The Internationale is a 1990 EP by Billy Bragg. Originally released on Bragg's short-lived record label, Utility Records, it is a deliberately political album, consisting mainly of cover versions and rewrites of left-wing protest songs. Although Bragg is known for his association with left-wing causes, this release is unusual: most of Bragg's recordings balance overtly political songs with social observation and love songs.
The songs on the album are:
- "The Internationale" with new lyrics written by Bragg at the suggestion of Pete Seeger. - 3:45
- "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night", based on Earl Robinson's "Joe Hill". - 1:27
- "The Marching Song of the Covert Batallions", with a tune borrowed from "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". - 3:59
- "Blake's Jerusalem", which Bragg calls an "attack on the new breed of capitalists Blake saw". - 2:30
- "Nicaragua Nicaraguita" by Carlos Mejía Godoy. - 1:06
- "The Red Flag" by Jim Connell, set to its original tune, "The White Cockade". - 3:12
- "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" by Eric Bogle. - 3:04
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Personnel
- Billy Bragg - guitar (acoustic), guitar (electric), vocals
- Cara Tivey - piano, vocals, shakuhachi
- Lorraine Bowen - clarinet, sopranio recorder, piano, accordion, organ
- The Christie Tyler Cory Band - brass
- Côr Cochion Caerdydd - vocals
- Mark Duff - whistles
- Jim Sutherland - bodhran. percussion
- Dick Gaughan - vocals
- Wiggy - guitar (bass), vocals
- Charlie Llewellin - drum, cymbal
- Grant Showbiz - vocals
- David Bedford - arrangement and conducting
