Keith Pille of Minneapolis sent in this beauty:We were a really, really by-the-numbers country-rock band with some pretty serious Uncle Tupelo Envy. We were a 4-piece, with 3 of us living in the Twin Cities and being really, really into the band and convinced that we were always just a month or so away from getting signed and making it big because we were so awesome blah blah blah. The 4th m...
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the rest of this week is going to be pretty slow over here, i assume. gots tons of shit to do before the big move. i still dont know where it is i am going to be working other than its in new orleans. so, for the next 4 days or so i am going to be reposting some [...]
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--- - |- There's a swell drinking mix over at Barstool Mountain. We'd suggest checking it out. Your liver will thank you.We're gonna get ourselves back in line shortly with a post about a grand honky-tonking trucker named Dick. But first, today, we want to offer up an obituary of sorts. With musical accompaniment, of course. Venerable music mag No Depression is closing up shop, at least i...
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When a song starts out THIS good, you know you are hooked...So i showed you mine...now what are your favorite opening lines from songs you love?
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Two reasons for this post. One, I have seen a serious shortage of love on mog for Uncle Tupelo, the seminal alt-country band of the late 80's/early 90's. And the second reason, I just wanted to use the word 'seminal' in a post. All the cool music writers use it, and I never have. To tell you the truth it didn't do much for me,But I do love Uncle Tupelo...so here are two songs, one fronted by Ja...
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Posted Uncle Tupelo's Anthology over on Multiply but wanted to post this great cover of an Iggy & The Stooges' song. Love this song so much & Farrar/Tweedy give it such an unusual spin. Gotta love it, yo!If you don't know, Uncle Tupelo were the band prior to Jay Farrar's band Son Volt & Jeff Tweedy's Wilco. Such a great band. They helped to establish the whole alternative country rock genre. He...
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This album was recorded in Spring of 1992, was produced by Peter Buck of REM fame and shows the boys fully immersed in country and old blue collar depression era music, no punk here, just stripped down acoustic appalachian beauty and peace. Reminds me of home.
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"God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine..."I like the Cat Power version, but this one crushes me...in the best of ways...you can hear the loneliness in Jay Farrar's vocals...
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Favorite Jeff Tweedy non-wilco song of all time. Bronze - Loose Fur - 'The Ruling Class' Silver - Golden Smog - 'Please Tell My Brother' Gold - Uncle Tupelo - 'New Madrid'(see red button)
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god bless my new mogging hero Jameson(http://mog.com/jameson)for he brought tears to my eyes. if this wasn't a virtual forum, you could see them; they are real. how did he do it you ask? it was quite simple actually, he turned back the clock and gave me the gift of Uncle Tupelo! my long beloved, long broken up into bits favorite alt country/punk/rock ground breaking combo from the quite depres...
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Hello everyone - my name's Sam and I program the alt.country station on Slacker.com streaming Internet radio.http://www.slacker.com/?sid=stations/1205463/571You can access the station there and listen for free! You can also customize the station to reflect your favorite tracks or ban tracks you don't want to hear ever again. :)My hope, however, is that you'll go to the forums (upper right corne...
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god love and miss the brilliance that was Uncle Tupelo. tweedy and farrar made some sweet, chaotic and sadly beautiful music in the late 80's and early 90's. thanks to my new mogging buddy jameson, i rediscovered the final Uncle Tupelo show that i lost so long ago. though they hated each other by then and maybe always, they threw the shit down that long ago beer spilled night in good old st lou...
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Here's a video I saw on another site that I thought was pretty cool. A) because it shows a very young Jeff Tweedy / Jay Farrar and B) because the music is great:
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its too late to be sitting up writing and i know i have to be at work by 10 tomorrow. and i'm not really worth much before noon. rock and roll only has one eight o'clock. i went out tonight to take out the trash for the store, well, honestly, i tore out the back door rapt with the frustration of being in a position that isn't anything near where i thought i'd be at 23 years old and almost just ...
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i just listened to this song and realized that the lap steel (or pedal steel?) in it must be directly related to pulling heart strings... everytime i hear this song, in particular the steel part, i get all teary eyed.... i don't even drink whiskey!but i drink lotsa wine....i love Uncle Tupelo.the last CD i purchased before opening up my record store was this one, so this album has a really impo...
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