Editing Billy Bragg (section)

===2010s–present===
Bragg was involved in the play ''Pressure Drop'' at the [[Wellcome Collection]] in London in April and May 2010. The production, written by Mick Gorden, and billed as "part play, part gig, part installation", featured new songs by Bragg. He performed during the play with his band, and acted as [[Master of ceremonies|compere]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/the-identity-project/play-pressure-drop.aspx|work=Wellcome collection|title=Pressure Drop|date=April–May 2010|access-date=11 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307072444/http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/the-identity-project/play-pressure-drop.aspx|archive-date=7 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Bragg was invited by [[Michael Eavis]] to curate the Leftfield stage at [[Glastonbury Festival]] in 2010,<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.billybragg.co.uk/press/story.php?ID=37|title=Glastonbury Festival announces return of Leftfield with Billy Bragg|access-date=23 July 2011|place=UK|type=press release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928101128/http://www.billybragg.co.uk/press/story.php?ID=37|archive-date=28 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> which he has continued to do in subsequent years.<ref>{{Cite web|website=Glastonburyfestivals.co.uk|url=http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/left-field/|title=Leftfield 2013|access-date=10 June 2014}}</ref> He also took part in the [[Bush Theatre]]'s 2011 project ''[[Sixty-Six Books]]'', where he wrote a piece based upon a book of the [[King James Bible]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/06-2011/bush-inaugurates-library-home-with-66-books_8645.html|title=Bush Inaugurates Library Home with 66 Books|first=Terri|last=Paddock|date=9 June 2011|work=WhatsOnStage.com|access-date=15 July 2015}}</ref> Bragg performed a set of the Guthrie songs that he had set to music for ''Mermaid Avenue'' during the [[Hay Literary Festival]] in June 2012,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://billybragg.co.uk/gigs/details.php?gigID=228|title=Gigs: Hay Literary Festival|access-date=18 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031935/http://billybragg.co.uk/gigs/details.php?gigID=228|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> he also performed the same set on the Friday night of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/about/past-artists/cambridge-folk-festival-2012/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513125234/http://www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/about/past-artists/cambridge-folk-festival-2012|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 May 2013|title=Cambridge Folk Festival 2012|access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref>

On 18 March 2013, five years after ''Mr. Love & Justice'', Bragg released the studio album ''[[Tooth & Nail (Billy Bragg album)|Tooth & Nail]]''. Recorded in five days at the home studio of musician/producer [[Joe Henry]] in [[South Pasadena, California|South Pasadena]] it featured 11 original songs, including one written for the Bush Theatre and a Woody Guthrie cover. Stylistically, it continued to explore genres of [[Americana (music)|Americana]] and [[alternative country]], a natural progression since ''Mermaid Avenue''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/tooth-nail-mw0002484063|title=Tooth & Nail|website=AllMusic|date=5 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/06/billy-bragg-the-sherpa-of-heartbreak.html|title=Billy Bragg, The Sherpa of Heartbreak|publisher=PBS|date=5 June 2013|access-date=24 August 2017|archive-date=19 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119071136/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/06/billy-bragg-the-sherpa-of-heartbreak.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The album was a commercial success, becoming his best charting record since 1991's ''Don't Try This at Home''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/billy%20bragg/|title= Billy Bragg: Official UK Chart Positions|publisher=Official UK Chart Company|date=18 November 2014}}</ref>

[[File:Billy Bragg and Joe Henry.jpg|thumb|300px|Bragg with [[Joe Henry]] at the [[Union Chapel, Islington]].]]
In February 2014, Bragg started a series of "radio shows" on [[Spotify]], in which he talked listeners through self-curated playlists of "his favourite tracks and artists, and uncovering some little-known musical gems".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/bill-bragg-and-spotify-launch-radio-shows/057578|title=Billy Bragg and Spotify launch 'radio shows'|first=Tom|last=Ingham|publisher=MusicWeek.com|date=10 February 2014}}</ref> On 14 April 2014, Bragg put out ''Live at the Union Chapel'', a souvenir album and DVD of a show he played on 5 June 2013 at the [[Union Chapel, Islington|Union Chapel]] in London, featuring songs from ''Tooth & Nail'' as well as favourites from his back catalogue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=77995|title=Billy Bragg to release Live at the Union Chapel|publisher=Music News|date=3 April 2014}}</ref>

In February 2016, Bragg was given the Trailblazer Award at the inaugural Americana Music Association UK Awards in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://americanamusic.org/news/uk-americana-awards-billy-bragg-be-honored-feb-3-london|date=17 December 2015 |title=Billy Bragg to be Honoured Feb 3 in London | work=Americana Music Association}}</ref> Following that, in September he was given the Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award at the Americana Music Association US Awards in Nashville.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://americanamusic.org/news/americana-music-association-announces-lifetime-achievement-honorees|date=30 August 2016 |title=Americana Music Association Announces Lifetime Achievement Honorees | work=Americana Music Association}}</ref>

In August 2016, Bragg released his eleventh album, a collaboration with Joe Henry, ''[[Shine a Light (Billy Bragg and Joe Henry album)|Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad]]'', recorded at various points on a journey between [[Chicago]] and [[Los Angeles]] by train in March. It reached number 28 in the UK Albums Chart<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/shine%20a%20light%20-%20field%20recordings%20from/|date=6 October 2016 |title=Shine a Light: Field Recordings official UK Chart position | work=Official UK Charts}}</ref> and number one in the UK Americana album chart.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/americana-albums-chart/20160930/americana/|date=30 September 2016 |title=Shine a Light: Field Recordings official UK Americana Album Chart debut | work=Official UK Charts}}</ref> The pair started a dual ''Shine a Light'' tour at the [[Americana Music Festival and Conference|Americana Music Festival]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]] in September 2016, and taking them across the States and Canada, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In April 2017, they played in Australia.

[[Faber and Faber|Faber]] published Bragg's second nonfiction book (after 2006's ''The Progressive Patriot''), ''Roots, Radicals and Rockers'' in June 2016, a history of the British [[skiffle]] movement, tracing the form from its 1950s boom back to [[ragtime]], [[blues]], [[jazz]] and American [[folk music]]. On [[BBC]] Music Day 2017, he helped unveil a blue plaque marking the studio (Trident) where the late [[David Bowie]] recorded two classic albums and the single "[[Space Oddity]]", in [[Soho]]; he joined album sleeve designer George Underwood and [[BBC Radio London]]'s [[Robert Elms]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.musicweek.com/media/read/bbc-music-day-blue-plaque-unveiled-in-honour-of-david-bowie/068821|date=15 June 2017 |title=BBC Music Day Blue Plaque unveiled in honour of David Bowie| work=Music Week}}</ref> In November, he released all six tracks from the [[mini-album]] ''[[Bridges Not Walls]]'' as downloads through the Billy Bragg website,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.withguitars.com/billy-bragg-new-album-bridges-not-walls-released-november-3rd/|date=9 October 2017 |title=Billy Bragg – New album Bridges Not Walls released November 3rd| website=With Guitars}}</ref> followed by the single,  "Full English Brexit" through Cooking Vinyl.

In April 2018, Bragg was invited to deliver a [[Bank of England]] Flagship Seminar; his presentation was titled ''Accountability: the Antidote to Authoritarianism''. The speech was made available on the Bank of England's website.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/events/2018/april/one-bank-flagship-seminar-billy-bragg|date=24 April 2018 |title=One Bank Flagship Seminar - Billy Bragg| website=Bank of England}}</ref> At the [[Ivor Novello Awards]] (''the Ivors'') in May, he accepted the [[PRS for Music|PRS]] Outstanding Contribution to British Music award.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://theivors.com/the-ivors-2018/|date=31 May 2018|title=The 63rd Ivor Novello Awards were presented on Thursday 31st May at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London|website=The Ivors|access-date=11 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717154009/http://theivors.com/the-ivors-2018/|archive-date=17 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Also in May, his official biography ''Still Suitable for Miners'' was published in a new, 20th anniversary updated edition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1116107/billy-bragg/9780753552711/|date=24 May 2018 |title=Billy Bragg by Andrew Collins| website=Penguin/Virgin Books}}</ref>

Bragg ended 2018 touring New Zealand and Australia. During his shows in [[Auckland]], Bragg road-tested a new live format for 2019 that he had first tried out in [[Toronto]], which became the ''One Step Forward, Two Steps Back'' tour. On the tour, Bragg would play three consecutive shows over three nights at each venue: the first night a current, mixed Bragg set; the second from his first three albums; the third from his second three albums. "It's a way of keeping things interesting", he said of the format.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.musicglue.com/billy-bragg/|date=2019 |title=Billy Bragg gigs| website=Musicglue}}</ref> The tour covered the United States and the UK and Ireland throughout 2019. It was intended to continue onto Australia and New Zealand in 2020, but was rescheduled and delayed multiple times due to the ongoing [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. The shows ultimately took place in February and March 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rankin |first1=Mia |title=Billy Bragg has plenty of music (and fight) left in him |url=https://centralnews.com.au/2023/03/23/billy-bragg-has-plenty-of-music-and-fight-left-in-him/ |website=Central News |date=23 March 2023 |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>

In May 2019, [[Faber and Faber]] published ''The Three Dimensions of Freedom'', a short polemic by Bragg intended, according to the publisher's blurb, to "protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny". The author urges readers to "look beyond [the] one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free" and "by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore... the three dimensions of freedom".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.billybragg.co.uk/product/the-three-dimensions-of-freedom/|date= 2 May 2019 |title=The Three Dimensions of Freedom| website=Billybragg.com}}</ref>

While unable to tour over the pandemic years, Bragg began working on new material. This resulted in his thirteenth studio album, ''[[The Million Things That Never Happened]]'', which was released in October 2021. Four singles were released from the album: "I Will Be Your Shield", "Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained", "Pass It On" and "Mid-Century Modern".<ref name="Grammy">{{cite web |title=Billy Bragg On His New Album 'The Million Things That Never Happened,' Maturing As An Activist & Why Liberty Is Impossible Without Accountability |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/billy-bragg-interview-new-album-the-million-things-that-never-happened-activism-liberty-accountability |website=[[The Recording Academy]] |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref>

In February 2023, Bragg announced a compilation series entitled ''[[The Roaring Forty (1983–2023)]]'' to commemorate 40 years of performing music.<ref name="AMG"/> These included a single LP compilation of 13 tracks, a triple-LP/double-CD of 40 tracks and a 14-disc CD box set of some 300 songs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=Tom |title=Billy Bragg to celebrate 40 years of music with massive new box set |url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/music/billy-bragg-to-celebrate-40-years-of-music-and-massive-new-box-set-3406057 |website=NME |date=28 February 2023 |publisher=BandLab Technologies |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref> He later announced the ''Roaring Forty'' tour, which took place across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe from September to December 2023.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Skinner |first1=Tom |title=Billy Bragg announces 40th anniversary UK and Ireland tour |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/billy-bragg-announces-40th-anniversary-uk-and-ireland-tour-dates-buy-tickets-3417643 |website=NME |date=21 March 2023 |publisher=BandLab Technologies |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>

In August 2023, Bragg shared a new single entitled "Rich Men Earning North of a Million". The solo track was quickly written and recorded as an [[answer song]] to American country musician [[Oliver Anthony]]'s song "[[Rich Men North of Richmond]]".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Snapes |first1=Laura |title=Billy Bragg releases pro-unionisation response song to viral country hit Rich Men North of Richmond |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/21/billy-bragg-releases-response-song-to-oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond |website=The Guardian |date=21 August 2023 |access-date=23 August 2023}}</ref>