BILLY BRAGG - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry (CD)

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: CDCOOK108
Barcode: 0711297150865
Release Date: 6 November 2026
Label: COOKING VINYL

Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, originally released in September 1986.

For Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, Bragg embraced a more fully realised band sound with the help of special guests Kirsty MacColl and Johnny Marr and production courtesy of John Porter (Roxy Music, The Smiths) and Kenny Jones. ‘Taxman…’ was his first top ten album and gave the world some of his most enduring songs in ‘Greetings To The New Brunette’ (his first top 40 hit), live favourite “Levi Stubbs’ Tears” about a victim of domestic abuse taking comfort in the music of the Four Tops, and classic workers’ anthem “There Is Power in a Union”.