Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne
Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 9 December 1993
BEFORE UNCLE TUPELO'S No Depression sneaked out of Belleville, Ill., in 1990, the respective sounds of Sonic Youth and Lynyrd Skynyrd probably never occupied a common thought, let alone the same song.
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