Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

by Billy Bragg & Wilco

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 9 November 1998
  • Label: Elektra Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 9:57
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

From 'Mermaid Avenue', the project setting Woody Guthrie's unrecorded lyrics, 'Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key' is a gentle folk rock song with Natalie Merchant on harmony. Bragg and Wilco frame Guthrie's words in an intimate, minor key arrangement.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, personal, ballad, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key (LP Version) (4:06)
  2. My Thirty Thousand (Non LP Track) (2:37)
  3. Bugeye Jim (Non LP Track) (3:14)

Credits

  • Woody Guthrie - lyrics by, lyricist

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