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Uncle Tupelo

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Uncle Tupelo: Mean Fiddler, London

Live Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 2 January 1993

RELATIVE VALUES ...

Uncle Tupelo: Are You Ready for the Country?

Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 9 January 1993

They don't play maudlin ditties about truck driving or dead sweethearts, but Uncle Tupelo are definitely a country band. Their three acclaimed albums, the latest ...

Uncle Tupelo: Anodyne

Review by 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 ...

Uncle Tupelo

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

Jay Farrar, b. 26 December 1966, Belleville, Illinois, USA; Michael Heidorn (replaced by Ken Coomer); Max Johnson; John Stirratt; Jeff Tweedy, b. 25 August 1967, ...

Alt Country, Old Country and New Country: Uncle Tupelo, James Talley, Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley

Review by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, April 2002

NOW WAY BACK in 1966, Bob Dylan at the suggestion of his producer decided to record in Nashville. The result of course was Blonde On ...

Uncle Tupelo: Are you ready for the alt. country?

Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, August 2004

UNCLE TUPELO only recorded three albums, but their legacy is extraordinary. Here we talk to original members Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy and Mike Heidorn about ...

Uncle Tupelo: No Depression (Legacy Edition)

Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 28 January 2014

IN THE SUMMER OF 1990, somewhere in the puzzling chasm between lipstick-smeared hair-metal excess and flannel-clad grunge irony, Uncle Tupelo arrived on the scene like ...

Uncle Tupelo: No Depression – The Legacy Edition

Review and Interview by Luke Torn, Uncut, February 2014

Not for now — just for forever. Insurgent country's big bang ...

The Compass and the Course: Jay Farrar/Son Volt Considered

Retrospective by Graham Reid, Elsewhere, 1 October 2017

BACK AT THE DAWN of the '90s, critical consensus and discerning listeners were drawn towards the emerging alt.country/American sound coming out of the US. It ...

Jeff Tweedy: At Least That's What He Said

Interview by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, February 2019

The recent publication of his autobiography and the release of his first solo album, Warm, have seen Wilco man Jeff Tweedy reflect on a remarkable ...

see also Wilco

see also Son Volt

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