Reaching to the Converted (Minding the Gaps)

by Billy Bragg

Reaching to the Converted (Minding the Gaps) cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: August 1999
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A collection of B-sides, rarities and otherwise uncompiled songs from Billy Bragg's solo career, supplementing the albums of the English singer-songwriter. Its plainspoken folk rock frames Bragg's political writing and his covers of traditional and contemporary material.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, folk, vocal, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Shirley
  2. Sulk
  3. Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version)
  4. The Boy Done Good
  5. Heart Like A Wheel
  6. Bad Penny
  7. Ontario, Quebec And Me
  8. Walk Away Renee (Version)
  9. Rule Nor Reason
  10. Days Like These (U.K. Version)
  11. Think Again
  12. Scholarship Is The Enemy Of Romance
  13. Wishing The Days Away (Ballad Version)
  14. The Tatler
  15. Jeane
  16. She's Leaving Home
  17. I Don't Need This Pressure Ron

Credits

  • Anna McGarrigle - music by, words by
  • Dick Gaughan - music by, words by
  • Lennon-McCartney - music by, words by
  • Morrissey - music by, words by
  • Russ Titelman - music by, words by
  • Ry Cooder - music by, words by
  • Wiggy - music consultant [project consultant], lead guitar
  • Michael Wesley Johnson - project manager [project assistance]
  • Greg Allen - art direction, design
  • Grant Showbiz - compilation producer, mixed by
  • Rachel Gutek - art direction
  • Gary Stewart - compilation producer
  • Doug Erb - illustration
  • Bob Calilli - music by
  • Michael Lookofsky - music by
  • Tony Sansone - music by
  • Pennie Smith - photography by
  • Phillip Gamble - photography by [inlay back]
  • Gary Smith - producer
  • Ted De Bono - producer

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