Tooth & Nail (Billy Bragg album)

Tooth & Nail is a 2013 studio album by folk musician Billy Bragg.

Tooth & Nail
Studio album by Billy Bragg
Released	18 March 2013 (2013-03-18) (United Kingdom) 19 March 2013 (2013-03-19) (United States)
Studio	The Garfield House Studio, South Pasadena, California
Genre	Country folk, Americana, alternative rock
Length	42:05
Label	Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Joe Henry
Billy Bragg chronology
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (2012) Tooth & Nail (2013) Bridges Not Walls (2017)

Track listing

All tracks are written by Billy Bragg, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"January Song"	2:19
2.	"No One Knows Nothing Anymore"	4:31
3.	"Handyman Blues"	3:03
4.	"I Ain't Got No Home" (Woody Guthrie)	3:33
5.	"Swallow My Pride"	2:50
6.	"Do Unto Others"	4:08
7.	"Over You"	3:15
8.	"Goodbye, Goodbye"	3:16
9.	"There Will Be a Reckoning"	3:30
10.	"Chasing Rainbows"	3:39
11.	"Your Name on My Tongue"	4:50
12.	"Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day"	3:10
Total length:		42:05

Personnel

• Billy Bragg – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Greg Leisz – acoustic guitar, pedal steel, mandolin
• David Piltch – bass, upright bass
• Patrick Warren – keyboards
• Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	(B−)[3]
Consequence of Sound	[4]
The Guardian	[5]
The Australian	[6]
musicOMH	[7]

The album received a generally favourable response from reviewers.

Videos

A video was produced for the track "Handyman Blues", directed by Johnny Vegas. Vegas also starred, alongside Bragg, Stewart Lee, Kevin Eldon, Phill Jupitus, Samuel West, Neil Morrissey, Ricky Grover and Ross Noble. The video depicts a group of men gathering in a DIY store to discuss their lack of practical skills and work through their fear of items in the store.