Uncle Tupelo - 89/93: An Anthology
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Artist: Uncle TupeloBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- No Depression
- Screen Door
- Graveyard Shift
- Whiskey Bottle
- Outdone (1989 demo)
- I Got Drunk
- I Wanna Be Your Dog (previously unreleased)
- Gun
- Still Be Around
- Looking for a Way Out (acoustic version)
- Watch Me Fall
- Sauget Wind
- Black Eye
- Moonshiner
- Fatal Wound
- Grindstone
- Effigy
- The Long Cut
- Chickamauga
- New Madrid
- We've Been Had (live)
Free Music Notes for 89/93: An Anthology
Free Music Review: booze, whiskey, jeezus and homespun heroes
Hit: 4 Stars
This music makes you wanna get in your car and tour the Mid-west. And it seems to embody the spirit of old school country and folk songs. Some of em' ain't pretty! A few are downright depressing. But that is what makes them great. It's that tendency to lean toward the dark side that gives them their poignancy, in my opinion.
The songs are littered with characters and people we all seem to know: middle class, hard working, hard drinking, anti-depressant swallowing, front porch sitting, regular-kinda-folk-people. There's murder ballads, straight ballads, rockers, folky tunes and all that good stuff that made up all the great country and folks lyrics.
I don't know exactly where Uncle Tupelo originate from, but it seems like it could be Gary, Indiana, Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, etc, etc. All those nasty places that represent much of what home seems to me.
Favorite lyrics:
"I took a fifth and I poured me a shot/and I thought about all the things I haven't got/and I drank that down and I poured me some more/kept drinking and pourin' til I felt the floor."
"I don't know what I'm breathing for/ cause the air around here ain't so good anymore/weatherman says fair/but he looks like a lie/nothing's free in this country/ and there's no place to hide.
If you have an interest in listening to the roots of Wilco and Son Volt, then by all means check this out. If you have any interest in roots music at all-- meaning folk and country roots-- fused w/ rock then, again, take a chance.
89/93: An Anthology Poster
Uncle Tupelo has received far more attention retrospectively than the band ever did while active. Maybe the best thing about this compilation, then, is that it ignores the myth and exalts the music. Issued eight years after the Jay Farrar/Jeff Tweedy split that yielded Son Volt and Wilco--and compiled with the participation of both parties--the anthology gathers its 21 tracks from every stage of the band's brief career. It's all here: lurching rockers like "Graveyard Shift" and "Outdone," ballads both rich ("Still Be Around") and raw ("Gun"), and more polished acoustic tunes, like the stark "Black Eye" and the bouncy "New Madrid," that came as Tweedy found his voice. There's also Farrar's definitive cover of the traditional "Moonshiner," and on "Chickamauga," his most desperate, galvanizing guitar solos. And, of course, there are the "hits" ("Whiskey Bottle," "The Long Cut"). Interspersed throughout are seven formerly hard-to-find songs, including covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Stooges, live versions of the album cuts "Looking for a Way Out" and "We've Been Had," and the non-album originals "I Got Drunk" and "Sauget Wind." To top it off, everything's been remastered, and the sonic upgrade does wonders to brighten up and animate the older material. --Anders Smith LindallAlternative Rock Music CDs
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