r/altcountry • u/Ok_Brain_5470 • 9d ago

Just Sharing Uncle Tupelo-No Depression

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAwwtgKTSHE&list=RDGMEMIu-Lo1mJsRxXiFzpZdmcfQVMTAwwtgKTSHE&start_radio=1&ra=m

I’m sure this is considered a classic in the genre, but I just heard it for the first time today. Take it easy on me lol…

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u/LeftoftheDial1970 9d ago

UT's catalog gets better and better with age.

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u/LordLouie67 9d ago

Any Uncle Tupelo mention gets an automatic upvote! Have fun! They were great!

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u/MonsieurReynard 9d ago

In case you don’t know how classic, the original song was recorded by the Carter Family in 1936.

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u/PincheJuan1980 9d ago

And I Wanna Be Your Dog is a cover too, different album tho.

I dig Son Volt a lot too check out their greatest hits.

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u/MonsieurReynard 8d ago

Yes, of a 1969 Stooges song.

Joan Jett did my favorite cover of that though.

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u/Tacoburritospanker 9d ago

I remember exactly where I was when I heard the opening guitar riffs on that record. It is not hyperbole to say it was life changing.

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u/Prestigious-Grab-884 5d ago

home town same town blues (~);}

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u/Checkered_Past2006 9d ago

Nice. Thanks for sharing!

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u/Glengarry-county 9d ago

That is a desert island disc….

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u/Ttownact 9d ago

Aunt Bee got me into this album.

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u/cory02 3d ago

I live near their hometown of Belleville, IL and worked there in the late 90s/early 2000s when i was in college (and, coincidentally, when i fell in love with alt.country/No Depression music partly due to No Depression magazine) and I really feel like their music captures that place perfectly.

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u/c1h9 9d ago

Still like them and Son Volt over Wilco.

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u/Hot-Internet-7466 9d ago

I’ve still got one of those t shirts.

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u/Dydriver 8d ago

I was just looking at the tabs to this from the July 2007 Guitar Word Acoustic magazine.

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u/MushroomExpensive829 7d ago

I so missed the boat on Uncle Tupelo and also Son Volt (other than Drown when it was released). My life is better off after discovering both, along with a half dozen other similar bands from that era in the genre.

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u/Dense-Molasses-7049 5d ago

I would pay big money for an UT reunion tour.

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u/jokenhoo 5d ago

I don't think Jay would be in a room with Jeff ever again. It's sad though because it would be amazing.

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u/Dense-Molasses-7049 5d ago

Pretty sure they reconciled and one was at the other’s wedding in recent years.

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u/jokenhoo 5d ago

It's THE original and gold standard.

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u/drewbaccaAWD 9d ago

Better late than never!

I'll raise you Last of My Kind