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Billy Bragg (pictured last year in Norway) played a two-hour, 20-song set at the Berklee Performance Center on Sunday.
Music Review
Billy Bragg delivers in two-hour set
By Scott McLennan
/ Globe Correspondent /
April 29, 2013
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After opening his concert Sunday at the Berklee Performance Center with “Ideology,” Billy Bragg told the audience that his voice was a little off because of a cold, then recounted how a manager once told him, “Bill, nobody comes to hear you sing.”
They come to hear Bragg find that populist intersection of the political and the personal, which he handily did during a two-hour performance at Berklee.
Sniffles be damned: Bragg has a sharp, country-seasoned touring band; a new album, “Tooth & Nail,” from which he played seven songs in the 20-song set; and plenty to say, commenting on universal health care (for it), modern fascism (against it), same-sex marriage (for it), and Morrissey (against it). Full story for BostonGlobe.com subscribers.
Scott McLennan can be reached at smclennan1010@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottMcLennan1.
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