UT & Wilco- a Metalhead's guide to Americana

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Nice piece on teamrock.com Also mentiond is one of my other favorite artist, Steve Poltz and his band the Rugburns.

 

http://www.teamrock.com/features/2015-12-02/a-metalhead-s-guide-to-americana

 

Uncle Tupelo were the Metallica of Americana, fronted by two visionary and perennially-feuding songwriters – Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar. Uncle Tupelo would eventually implode from infighting, not unlike the Dave Mustaine days of their Bay Area colleagues, and split into two of the movement’s most important bands (Wilco and Son Volt, respectively). Unlike Metallica however, this line-up yielded four monumental Americana albums that served up an achingly-gorgeous amalgam of bare-knuckled punk and mournful country standards before hanging it up in 1994. These four records offered the blueprint from which much of the ensuing movement would emerge.