BILLY BRAGG ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’

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On his 13 studio album ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’, Billy Bragg readily admits that, as a 63-year-old white man entering his fifth decade as one of the country’s foremost political singer-songwriters, the so-called ‘culture wars’ can get confusing.

“I’m used to people listening to what I have to say / And I find it hard to think that it might help if I just stepped away,” he sings on the swooning Americana of ‘Mid-Century Modern’. It’s time, he argues, to let others start leading the way. “The kids that pull the statues down, they challenge me to see / The gap between the man I am and the man I wanna be.”

Perhaps that’s the reason that by far its liveliest moment, the stomping closer ‘Ten Mysterious Photos That Can’t Be Explained’, is the only one he’s co-written with his son, 27-year-old Jack Livero. It’s a delight of a song with a rollicking chorus where Bragg’s scattergun couplets tackle the sprawling mess of the internet and its dubious conspiracies, before a gorgeous and melancholy verse looks back with affecting regret on all those hours-turned-days-turned weeks spent tumbling down online rabbit holes.