Wilco and Billy Bragg have announced they will perform together for the first time, presenting music from their “Mermaid Avenue” collaborations. The concerts will feature the artists performing songs they created using previously unheard lyrics written by Woody Guthrie.

The joint performances mark a reunion more than two decades after the musicians first worked together on the project. Wilco and Bragg originally recorded two albums in 1998 and 2000, setting Guthrie’s words to new music after being invited by Guthrie’s daughter Nora to explore her father’s archives.

The upcoming shows will bring together the American band and the British singer-songwriter on stage for these songs for the first time. Previously, each act had performed selections from “Mermaid Avenue” separately during their respective tours, but never as a combined performance.

The original albums emerged from thousands of Guthrie lyrics that had never been set to music. The folk icon had written the words in his Brooklyn home on Mermaid Avenue during the 1940s and 1950s, but many remained in notebooks without melodies when he died in 1967.

Details about specific venues and dates for the performances are expected to be announced soon. The collaboration brought renewed attention to Guthrie’s vast body of work and introduced his writing to younger generations when the albums were first released at the turn of the millennium.

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