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 Uncle TupeloNo Depression Release Date: 1990 Label: Sony Music Distribution Rating:  |
Uncle Tupelo's landmark opening salvo is the group's most rock-oriented album, steeped more in breakneck speed, punk crunch, and guitar dissonance than any of their subsequent efforts. Indeed, despite the presence of mandolins, fiddles, and banjos -- as well as inclusion of the title track, a faithful cover of the A.P. Carter classic -- the trio's vaunted country leanings are less musical than thematic on No Depression, thanks in large part to singers/songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's acute depictions of rural, blue-collar life. Like the Replacements -- never more obvious an influence than on this LP -- Uncle Tupelo's songs paint grim, unrelenting portraits of aimless Midwestern existence, split between days working on the opening cut's "Factory Belt" and nights spent blurry-eyed and wasted ("Whiskey Bottle," "Before I Break"). Still, for all of the record's doleful cynicism -- virtually every cut nods toward dashed hopes, broken promises, and paralyzing fear -- there's an undeniable electricity afoot as well; by channeling the mournful clarity of country into the crackling fury of punk, No Depression brings new life to both musical camps. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Graveshift Yard | Tweedy, Farrar, Heidorn | 4:43 |
| 2 | That Year | Tweedy, Heidorn, Farrar | 2:59 |
| 3 | Before I Break | Heidorn, Tweedy, Farrar | 2:48 |
| 4 | No Depression | Carter | 2:20 |
| 5 | Factory Belt | Heidorn, Farrar, Tweedy | 3:13 |
| 6 | Whiskey Bottle | Farrar, Tweedy, Heidorn | 4:46 |
| 7 | Outdone | Tweedy, Farrar, Heidorn | 2:48 |
| 8 | Train | Heidorn, Tweedy, Farrar | 3:19 |
| 9 | Life Worth Livin' | Farrar, Tweedy, Heidorn | 3:32 |
| 10 | Flatness | Farrar, Heidorn, Tweedy | 2:58 |
| 11 | So Called Friend | Heidorn, Farrar, Tweedy | 3:12 |
| 12 | Screen Door | Farrar, Tweedy, Heidorn | 2:42 |
| 13 | John Hardy | Leadbelly | 2:21 |
Other Releases:
| No Depression [Bonus Tracks] Release Date: 1990 Label: Columbia/Legacy |
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