William Bloke

Studio album by Billy Bragg

Released

September 10, 1996

Genre

Rock, folk

Length

41:15

Billy Bragg chronology

Don't Try This at Home
(1991)

William Bloke
(1996)

Bloke on Bloke
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Alternative Press	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[3]
NME	(7/10)^[2]
Q	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[4]
Spin	(7/10)^[2]

William Bloke is the seventh album by alternative folk artist Billy Bragg, released in 1996, five years after his last studio album. The lyrics to "A Pict Song" are by English poet Rudyard Kipling. The lyrics to "Goalhanger" use the first verse of "The Little Man Who Wasn't There".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Billy Bragg; except where indicated

"From Red to Blue"
"Upfield"
"Everybody Loves You Babe"
"Sugar Daddy"
"A Pict Song" (words: Rudyard Kipling)
"Brickbat"
"The Space Race Is Over"
"Northern Industrial Town"
"The Fourteenth of February"
"King James Version"
"Goalhanger"

The LP version also includes a final track, "Qualifications". The 2006 Reissue includes a second CD, with the following track listing:

"As Long As You Hold Me" [demo]
"Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet" [demo]
"Sugardaddy" [demo]
"Space Race Is Over" [demo]
"Goalhanger" [demo]
"Upfield" [demo]
"Fourteenth of February" [demo]
"Qualifications"
"Never Had No One Ever"
"Thatcherites"
"All Fall Down"

Personnel

Billy Bragg - guitar, vocals
Terry Disley - Hammond B3 organ (1), strings (9), string arrangement
Fionn O'Lochlainn - bass (2,4)
J.F.T. Hood - drums, percussion (2,4,7,9,11)
Cara Tivey - organ, piano (2,3,4,7,9,11)
Terry Edwards - saxophone (2,11)
Caroline Hall - trombone (2,11)
Dave Woodhead - trumpet (2,11), flugelhorn (4), strings (6), brass arrangement
Deirdre Cooper - cello (6,9)
Chris Morgan - double bass (7,10)
Chucho Merchan - double bass (9)
Ashley Dreea - mandolin (10)
Nigel Frydman - bass (11)

Notes

↑ William Bloke at AllMusic
1 2 3 4 "Billy Bragg - William Bloke CD Album". CD Universe. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
↑ Flaherty, Mike (1996-09-20). "William Bloke Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
↑ Moon, Tom (1998-02-02). "Billy Bragg: William Bloke : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2013-06-04.

Billy Bragg
Studio albums	Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy Brewing Up with Billy Bragg Talking with the Taxman About Poetry Workers Playtime The Internationale Don't Try This at Home William Bloke Mermaid Avenue (with Wilco) Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (with Wilco) England, Half-English Mr Love & Justice Mermaid Avenue Vol. III (with Wilco) Tooth & Nail
Compilations, and boxsets	Back to Basics The Peel Sessions Album Victim of Geography Life's a Riot Between the Wars Bloke on Bloke Reaching to the Converted Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg Volume 1 Volume 2 Fight Songs Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (with Wilco)
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	Wilco Man in the Sand Discography Red Wedge "A New England"

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