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    No Depression Legacy Edition (1/28/14)

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    LEGACY RECORDINGS UNVEILS UNCLE TUPELO’S
    NO DEPRESSION: LEGACY EDITION

    Deluxe Two-Disc Collection Includes Landmark Debut Album

    Plus 22 Newly Remastered Demos, Live Tracks, Cover Versions, and Other Rarities

     

    “I Wanna Be Your Dog” b/w “Commotion” Exclusive 7” Vinyl Single

    To Mark Record Store Day’s Back To Black Friday 2013, Slated For Friday, November 29th

     

    No Depression: Legacy Edition Available January 28th, 2014

     

    New York, NY – Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Uncle Tupelo’s No Depression: Legacy Edition, a two disc volume comprising the landmark 1990 album alongside a bumper crop of previously unavailable demos, live tracks, and other rarities. No Depression: Legacy Edition arrives in stores and online January 28th, 2014. Pre-order at http://smarturl.it/tupelo_ND_amzn.

     

    In addition, Legacy Recordings will celebrate Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday 2013 with an exclusive 7" vinyl single of Uncle Tupelo’s “I Wanna Be Your Dog” b/w “Commotion.” The Numbered Limited Edition 7" features the No Depression outtake cover of the Stooges standard on the A Side, backed by a previously unreleased studio outtake rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Commotion” on the flip. Record Store Day’s Back To Black Friday 2013 will be held at independent record stores across the nation on Friday, November 29th.

     

    Released in 1990, No Depression is a genuine milestone in American rock ‘n’ roll, a still striking fusion of traditional folk and country with post punk innovation and hardcore ferocity. The album struck a loud, twangy chord throughout the American Indie Underground, inspiring countless bands as well as an online notice board and a magazine that served to both forward and document the thriving musical movement that came to be known as alt-country.

     

    New mastering by veteran engineer Vic Anesini at New York City’s Battery Mastering Studios, No Depression: Legacy Edition sees the original classic album augmented by twenty-two extraordinary extras, including for the first time on CD, 1989’s legendary Not Forever, Just For Now demo tape. No Depression: Legacy Edition additionally includes an exclusive history by writer Richard Byrne, whose ardent support in St. Louis’ alternative weekly, The Riverfront Times, proved influential during Uncle Tupelo’s early career.

     

    Jay Farrar (guitar/vocals), Jeff Tweedy (bass/vocals), and Mike Heidorn (drums) first came together as The Primitives, busting out teenage garage rock in their hometown of Belleville, Illinois. Fueled by the potent new influence of American roots music, the trio soon adopted the name Uncle Tupelo and began veering into uncharted creative territory. The band raised a ruckus from the jump, their careening tempos, distorted power chords, and unpredictable time changes touched and elevated by Farrar and Tweedy’s harmonies and lyricism.

     

    Uncle Tupelo toured hard and swiftly churned up a devoted fan following, first in the Greater St. Louis area but soon spreading across the Midwest and beyond. In 1987, the band entered a friend’s home studio to record their first demos, self-released on cassette as Colorblind and Rhymeless. The Live & Otherwise cassette followed a year later, setting highlights from Uncle Tupelo’s notoriously frenetic live blowouts alongside embryonic renditions of songs like “No Depression” and “Blues Die Hard,” both making their remastered CD debut on No Depression: Legacy Edition.

     

    1989 saw Uncle Tupelo hit producer Matt Allison’s Champaign, Illinois attic studio to record exhilarating early versions of many No Depression favorites. The tape – dubbed Not Forever, Just For Now, its title pulled from Farrar’s “Whiskey Bottle” –caused a commotion, prompting CMJ New Music Report to proclaim Uncle Tupelo as the Best Unsigned Band in America. That status didn’t last long – the trio signed with independent Rockville Records (later Giant Records) and got to work on their debut album proper.

     

    No Depression was recorded over 10 wintry days in late January 1990 at Boston’s Fort Apache South with iconic producers Sean Slade & Paul Q. Kolderie. The album amplified Uncle Tupelo’s novel sonic approach while also shining a light on Ferrar and Tweedy’s evocative, populist songwriting.

     

    In addition to their own unique songcraft, Uncle Tupelo famously put their dissident stamp on several universally beloved favorites. No Depression takes its title from its cover of Southern Gospel pioneer J.D. Vaughan’s “No Depression In Heaven” (later recorded by The Carter Family and late 50’s folk revivalists, The New Lost City Ramblers), and concludes with a rendition of the archetypal murder ballad, “John Hardy.” Outtakes from the period featured here include fiery versions of The Flying Burrito Brothers’ immortal “Sin City” and The Vertabrats’ proto-punk “Left In The Dark.”

     

    Uncle Tupelo called it a day in 1994, leaving four acclaimed studio albums and a vigorous new genre in their wake. All three original members continued to scale musical heights, with Farrar and Heidorn reuniting in Son Volt and Tweedy founding the GRAMMY® Award-winning Wilco. In 2002, Uncle Tupelo teamed with Legacy to release 89/93: An Anthology, the band’s first ever assemblage of album tracks, demos, single sides, compilation cuts, and live radio sessions. The collection was followed in 2003 by remastered Columbia/Legacy editions of Uncle Tupelo’s first three albums, including No Depression, 1991’s Still Feel Gone, and 1992’s March 16-20, 1992, all appended with previously unavailable bonus material.

     

    Uncle Tupelo

    No Depression: Legacy Edition

    Disc One

    No Depression (Original Album)

    1. Graveyard Shift
    2. That Year
    3. Before I Break
    4. No Depression
    5. Factory Belt
    6. Whiskey Bottle
    7. Outdone
    8. Train
    9. Life Worth Livin’
    10. Flatness
    11. So Called Friend
    12. Screen Door
    13. John Hardy

     

    No Depression Era Odds & Ends

    1. Left In The Dark
    2. Won’t Forget
    3. I Got Drunk
    4. Sin City
    5. Whiskey Bottle (Live Acoustic)

     

    Disc Two

    Not Forever, Just For Now (No Depression Demos, Produced By Matt Allison, 1989)

    1. Outdone
    2. That Year
    3. Whiskey Bottle
    4. Flatness
    5. I Got Drunk
    6. Before I Break
    7. Life Worth Livin’
    8. Train
    9. Graveyard Shift
    10. Screen Door

     

    From Live & Otherwise (Self-Released Cassette, 1988)

    1. No Depression
    2. Blues Die Hard

     

    From Colorblind and Rhymeless (1987 Cassette Demo)

     

    1. Before I Break
    2. I Got Drunk
    3. Screen Door
    4. Blues Die Hard
    5. Pickle River
    - See more at: http://www.legacyrecordings.com/a/#/news/legacy-recordings-unveils-uncle-tupelos-no-depression-legacy-edition-available-january-28th-2014/156/1/

     

    Wilco's Non-album Tracks

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    Added "The Ballad of the Opening Band"
     
    http://songsforslim.com/pages/releases/nw4028-jeff-tweedy-b-w-lucero
     

     

    Jeff Tweedy recently recorded "The Ballad of the Opening Band" for the Songs For Slim project, a non-profit to benefit former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap who suffered a serious stroke in 2012. (An apt song choice as Tweedy's prior band Uncle Tupelo was the opener on a handful of Slim-era Replacements dates in 1991). The 7" is limited to 250 signed and numbered copies worldwide and they'll be auctioned beginning this Sunday at 10am Pacific.

    Jeff producing new White Denim album

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    Lot's of new about Jeff working on albums lately. Mavis Staples, Low, White Denim. I'm just looking forward the press release that says "Jeff Tweedy teams up with John Stirratt, Nels Cline, Glenn Kotche, Pat Sansone, Mikael Jorgensen to produce new album."

    Son Volt

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    Track list for the new album - Honky Tonk:

     

    Thanks for the update! how did I miss this?

     

    From their web site:

     

     

    Honky Tonk will be released via Rounder Records on March 5.  The album features eleven new Son Volt songs that are inspired by the classic honky tonk sound of Bakersfield. Bandleader Jay Farrar observes, “Honky tonk music is about heartache, heartbreak, the road.” Honky Tonk stays true to what’s so appealing about honky tonk music, while stretching out its familiar contours into new shapes and spaces.

     

    Farrar sees Honky Tonk as a record moving forward on the path toward a more acoustic-based music that Son Volt took on its last record, 2009’s American Central Dust (also on Rounder). “The record is a continuation of what was happening with American Central Dust,” observes Farrar. “Once again, I didn’t play much if any electric guitar.”

     

    Like American Central Dust, Son Volt recorded Honky Tonk in Farrar’s studio in St. Louis, with Mark Spencer (who also plays bass guitar, pedal steel and keyboards) at the recording helm. Dave Bryson provided drums and other percussion. Most of the songs on Honky Tonk were written in a two-week burst, and many of its compositions mine a more thematic lyrical vein inspired by a traditional country music aesthetic, which Farrar first explored on the band’s previous record.

     

    “I was always averse to using certain words in songs,” recalls Farrar, “including ‘love’ and ‘heart.’ But I started using them on [American Central Dust] and now I guess the floodgates have opened.”

    Wilco's Non-album Tracks

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    Ok, this is a regular Courtesy Move day!

     

    Doing more Courtesy Move research. Turns out Max Johnson, Ken and Jay were also the backing band for Steve Forbert’s ’96 album Rocking Horse Head.

     

    http://archives.node...-courtesy-move/

    http://www.allmusic....0610973/credits

     

    Here's the cover to the California 7". Never seen this before. Apparently this had a John Stirratt penned track as a b-side, "Sight Unseen." Catchy little song!

     

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    According to this article: http://archives.node...ommon-courtesy/

    Bennett's song “Songs That Weren’t Finished” which later appeared on "Bigger than Blue" was originally intended for Courtesy Move. And this article: http://www.nashville...d=118068 says that they recorded a cover of The Bee Gees' "Birdie"

    Wilco's Non-album Tracks

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    John Stirratt and Ken Coomer played on 'Replace You' from The Magnificent Defeat. Great record. The Courtesy Move played a larger role on The Palace at 4am and also played on two tracks from Bigger Than Blue.

     

    Thank you! Would love to hear the original Courtesy Move versions of those tracks. Would have made a decent album. Did John recycle any Courtesy Move songs for The Autumn Defense?

     

    Whispers or Screams

    Like a Photograph

    California

    Let's Count Our Loses

    Replace You

    It's Hard

    Talk To Me

    These I'll Provide.

    Wilco's Non-album Tracks

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    Added Sherry Rich's album "Dakota Avenue" recorded in 1999-2001 with Jay Bennett, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone and released in 2012.

     

    Does anyone have a copy of Jay Bennett's "The Magnificent Defeat"? I do not. I'm trying to confirm which songs John Stirratt and Ken Coomer play on. Can anyone help me with that?

    Reworked version of I Got You for Judd Apatow movie

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    Full track list of the soundtrack:

     

    http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/11/fiona-apple-ryan-adams-wilco-paul-mccartney-contribute-to-this-is-40-soundtrack/

     

    01. I’m Your Angel – Yoko Ono

    02. Always Judging – Norah Jones

    03. What Do You Like? – Graham Parker with Punch Brothers

    04. Sick Of You – Lindsey Buckingham

    05. Rewrite – Paul Simon

    06. Shining Through The Dark (Live) – Ryan Adams

    07. Lunch Box Odd Sox – Paul McCartney

    08. Brother & Sister – Lindsey Buckingham Featuring Norah Jones

    09. Theme 1 (Debbie & Oliver) – Jon Brion

    10. Watch The Moon Come Down – Graham Parker & The Rumour

    11. Days That We Die – Loudon Wainwright

    12. She Acts Like You – Lindsey Buckingham

    13. Dull Tool – Fiona Apple

    14. Lucky Now (Live) – Ryan Adams

    15. I Got You – Wilco

    16. Live & Die – The Avett Brothers

    Old Loft Pics

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    I'm looking forward to hearing more of this. "lost" recordings featuring Glenn, Jay, Pat and Leroy! Like I said in the other thread, this is a bit of Wilco past and present. I've enjoyed what I've heard of her "Sherry Rich & Courtesy Move" album with Jay, Ken and John. Can we refer to this as Courtesy Move 2?

    Wilco heard while you're out and about

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    Not so much hearing Wilco but hearing about Wilco.

     

    I heard an interview (just by chance) with an Australian singer named Sherry Rich yesterday on Radio National in Australia.

     

    She spoke about an album she has just released titled "Dakota Avenue" which was recorded in Wilco's loft between 1999 - 2001 (with a number of other Wilco folk playing on the record). She spoke very warmly of Jay.

     

    Photos from the sessions are here:

     

    http://www.sherryric...ails/index.html

     

    Nice find. This deserves its own thread. "lost" recordings featuring Glenn, Jay, Pat and Leroy! A bit of Wilco past and present. I've enjoyed what I've heard of her "Sherry Rich & Courtesy Move" album with Jay, Ken and John. Can we refer to this as Courtesy Move 2?

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