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This, he explained, will keep his wiry facial hair soft for his wife back home in England.
"I bought some of this beard oil and two people have already taken the piss out of me about it. The beard is going to stay,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I think," he said over the phone.
A protest singer like Steve Earle and the late Woody Guthrie, 55-year-old Bragg is renowned as a politically active artist. He supported the Occupy Movement,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], denounced the British National Party and often posts left-leaning songs - available for free - on his website.
Yet Tooth Nail is more about the romantic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], beard-oil-applying Billy than the fist-clenched Bragg. The self-financed disc, recorded over five days in Pasadena, California, casts him in a mellow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], introspective frame of mind. There are love songs such as the whimsical Handyman Blues. January touches on the death of his mother. Goodbye, Goodbye is a tear-in-the-eye farewell to friends.
Sparsely produced,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's a soulful folk album with country flourishes. Bragg seems to be singing in a lower register than in earlier efforts, such as his breakthrough 1986 album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry.
"I am, actually,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said. "My voice has dropped over the last couple of years. … The fact that it's dropped has made it a lot more malleable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], really,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], allowing me to do what I want to do with it."
Bragg's great musical influence is Guthrie. It was no surprise when Guthrie's daughter Nora chose him to make an album of her father's unrecorded lyrics. The result was 1998's Mermaid Avenue, recorded with alt-roots rockers Wilco.
Bragg says his lower-register vocal approach, as heard on Tooth Nail, first came to him while singing Guthrie's I Ain't Got No Home (included on the disc). Indeed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bragg declares himself more excited about it than any recording since his 1983 solo debut,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy.
Part of the credit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he says,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], goes to his friend Joe Henry, who produced the album. Henry is a veteran who's worked with Solomon Burke,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Elvis Costello and Aaron Neville. He lined up the backing musicians for Tooth Nail.
Typically, when it comes to recording, Bragg likes to be in control. This time, he handed the reins to Henry - even acceding to his request that Bragg leave his guitar at home ("I have lots of guitars,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Henry told him).
"I trusted him and I trusted these [other musicians], who were amazing to work with,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Bragg said.
Among the most poignant songs on Tooth Nail is January. Bragg's mother, who died of cancer several years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], loved to dance. January makes reference to a bittersweet detail: She was buried with her gold dancing shoes.
Bragg said his mother's passing (his father died when he was 1 Cool

had a profound influence on Tooth Nail - and his life in general.
"When something like that happens,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you can't help but think about what you are and what you're doing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said. "People might be expecting me to be shouting from the rooftops in a finger-pointing way about politics. [But] I'm in a much more reflective mood."
Bragg's mother once told an interviewer she didn't care for her son's music. At the time, his comeback was: "What kind of punk-rocker makes music that their mother likes?" (Bragg launched his career in the late 1970s with a punk-rock band,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Riff Raff).
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