Mr Love & Justice

Mr Love & Justice
Studio album by Billy Bragg
Released 3 March 2008
Recorded Band version: September 2006 - March 2007
Solo version: September 2007
Genre Rock
Label Cooking Vinyl
ANTI-
Shock
Producer Grant Showbiz
Billy Bragg chronology
Volume 2
(2006)		 Mr. Love & Justice
(2008)		 Pressure Drop
(2010)
Singles from Mr Love & Justice
  1. "I Keep Faith"
    Released: March 17, 2008
  2. "The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You"
    Released: July 21, 2008
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Billboard (favourable) [2]
Crawdaddy! (favourable) [3]
Hot Press [4]
MusicOMH.com [5]
Observer Music Monthly [6]
Pitchfork Media [7]
PopMatters [8]
Uncut [9]

Mr Love & Justice is the twelfth studio album by folk-rock musician Billy Bragg, and the second to be recorded with his backing band The Blokes. The title is taken from the 1960 novel by Colin MacInnes.[10]

Two versions are available on CD. The first is a single-disc album featuring The Blokes, the second is a limited-edition double-disc release. Disc one is the same as the standard issue, but is referred to as Band Version; the second disc, Solo Version, contains the same twelve tracks performed just by Bragg with electric and acoustic guitars.

The album was recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire in March 2007, with additional recordings taken from a session that was recorded at The Butchers Shop, London NW5 in September 2006. The solo version of the album was recorded by Bragg at Mojo Sound Studios in Devon in September 2007.

The first single to be released from the album was "I Keep Faith" which was released on limited edition 7" on 17 March 2008.[11]

The second single from the album was a double a-side of "The Beach Is Free" and "I Almost Killed You" which was released as a download single on July 21, 2008.[12]

Franz Nicolay, of The Hold Steady, listed Mr Love & Justice as one of his favourite albums of 2008.[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Billy Bragg.[14]

  1. "I Keep Faith" (featuring Robert Wyatt on backing vocals)
  2. "I Almost Killed You"
  3. "M for Me" (featuring Nic Waterhouse on tambourine)
  4. "The Beach is Free"
  5. "Sing Their Souls Back Home" (featuring May Fitzpatrick on backing vocals)
  6. "You Make Me Brave"
  7. "Something Happened"
  8. "Mr Love & Justice"
  9. "If You Ever Leave"
  10. "O Freedom"
  11. "The Johnny Carcinogenic Show" (featuring May Fitzpatrick on backing vocals)
  12. "Farm Boy"
  13. "Ash Wednesday" - Bonus track on Japanese release
  14. "Goodbye, Goodbye" - Bonus track on Japanese release

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1315173/review
  2. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/albums/e3iaeef0c1a4b6820824ee697832aa2d465
  3. ^ http://crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com/Article.aspx?id=6776
  4. ^ http://www.hotpress.com/music/reviews/albums/4481732.html
  5. ^ http://www.musicomh.com/albums/billy-bragg-3_0208.htm
  6. ^ http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/reviews/story/0,,2256222,00.html#article_continue
  7. ^ http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50037-mr-love-justice
  8. ^ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/57553/billy-bragg-mr-love-justice/
  9. ^ http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/billy_bragg/reviews/11128
  10. ^ Interview, BBC Radio 4 Front Row Thursday 6 March 2008 John Wilson: "You've borrowed the album title from … this is a Colin MacInnes book, isn't it?" Billy Bragg: Yeah, it is – a novel by Colin MacInnes. Oddly enough, I also borrowed the title of an article he wrote for the last album England, Half-English.
  11. ^ "Billy Bragg - I Keep Faith". HMV. http://hmv.com/hmvweb/digitalProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&productId=6172097. Retrieved 2008-03-17. 
  12. ^ "Billy Bragg - The Beach Is Free/I Almost Killed You". HMV. http://hmv.com/hmvweb/digitalProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&productId=6775629. Retrieved 2009-12-10. 
  13. ^ http://stereokill.net/?p=855
  14. ^ "UNCUT Q&A: BILLY BRAGG". UNCUT. http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/billy_bragg/reviews/11128. Retrieved 2008-04-05. 
Billy Bragg
Studio albums
Compilations,
and boxsets
Singles and EPs

"Between the Wars EP" · "Days Like These" · "Levi Stubbs' Tears" · "Greetings to the New Brunette" · "She's Leaving Home" · "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" · "She's Got a New Spell" · "Won't Talk About It" · "Sexuality" · "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood" · "Accident Waiting to Happen EP" · "Upfield" · "The Boy Done Good" / "Sugardaddy" · "Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" (with Wilco)  · "She Came Along to Me EP" (with Wilco)  · "England Half English" / "St Monday" (with The Blokes)  · "Take Down the Union Jack" (with The Blokes)  · "We Laughed" (Rosetta Life feat. Billy Bragg)  · "I Keep Faith" · "The Beach Is Free" / "I Almost Killed You" · "Never Buy The Sun"
Live albums

"Help Save the Youth of America" · "No Pop, No Style, Strictly Roots" · "Mermaid Avenue Tour" · "Going to a Party Way Down South" · "Live at the Barbican"
Related articles