Reviving the popular but sporadic Monday Morning Blues feature today with some Louvin Brothers songs and cover versions. The Lemonheads and Uncle Tupelo covering a couple of Louvin classics and bringing the circle all the way around with The Louvins covering the Carter Family as also covered by Johnny Cash . If anyone has any suggestions, musical or otherwise, to help make the Monday Morning Blues a less sporadic [...]
Graveyard Shift - Mississippi River Center Benefit Show, May 1989. Download: MP3: Uncle Tupelo :: Graveyard Shift ---- Amazon: Uncle Tupelo - No Depression + Download your music DRM free via eMusic's 25 free MP3 no risk trial offer ------------------------------ ------------
thats right peoples! today be me 34th birthday. lame.... here is the remainder of the last tupelo show. i could have probably fit it into one post, but at this stage in the game i am getting a wee bit desperate. 14. high water 15. acuff rose 16. true to life 17. we've been had 18. give back the keys 19. everybody knows this is nowhere [...]
uncle tupelo's last show on 5.1.94 in st louis at mississippi nights. 1. no depression 2. chickamauga 3. watch me fall 4. grindstone 5. satan your kingdom must come down 6. fifteen keys 7. the long cut 8. anodyne 9. new madrid 10. slate 11. atomic power [...]
I've been lax on my Clash posts of late, so maybe this will make up for it. As far as I know, this is the whole show, a rare Italy live performance from the greatest band in the world. ZIP FILE Set list: London Calling Safe European Home White Man In Ham Palais Train In Vain Lightning Strikes Junco Partner The Guns Of [...]
A friend of mine, Tim Regetz – with whom i generally need to have a dictionary handy just to have a conversation with – told me he wanted to write a sort-of guest post here at This Mornin' . A grad student in English, if Tim isn't the smartest cat i know, then he sure knows how to talk like it. While choosing Jeff Tweedy as the topic of his piece fits right in with the theme of this blog, i was a little anxious over his decision. i consider myself an [...]
Angus Young of AC/DC "Highway To Hell" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" are two of my all-time favorite rock songs. I love the covers by The Red Star Brigade and Jay Farrar & Jeff Tweedy's former band Uncle Tupelo. Download (Right-Click Save As): MP3: AC/DC - Highway To Hell MP3: The Red Star Brigade - Highway To Hell <a Iggy Pop [...]
Texas Rock For Country Rollers was the first Doug Sahm album I ever bought. 1992 at Melody Records in Chico, CA. Found an old vinyl cut-out that looked like it might've been used to chamois a '74 Pinto. That was the bad news. The good news is that the record itself was in fine condition. Now, I wish I could sit here in my banana hammock and Angels cap and say it was love at first listen, but that wasn't the case. I certainly didn't dislike it, but I think I [...]
I became familiar with Astrid Swan's music through her cover of The Killers' "When You Were Young," which is about as good as the original, in its own way. Her own compositions tend towards the odd and sometimes self-indulgent chick-piano genre, of which Tori Amos and Kate Bush are the standard bearers, which is [...]
My first exposure to Joseph Arthur was his not-terribly-good "Nuclear Daydream" album, which, I understand from his true fans, was also not-terribly-representative of his work. Well, if they were talking about the kind of stuff on this pair of EPs (the first two of five promised to be released in oh-eight), then I get it. The [...]
Indie pop folk. Or is it folky indiepop? Indie folk pop? The Weepies fit all three of these categories. We can emphasis the pop, the indie, or the folk, and different songs on "Hideaway" will fit the appropriate accent. "Wish I Could Forget" is a great example of the band's sound. [...]
I'm having trouble finding out much about Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (stage name "Lykke Li"). I received her "Little Bit" EP in the mail, without much fanfare, and I really like it. I've also been able to locate streams of her debut, "Youth Novels" (two songs from the album are also on the [...]
Got my final issue of No Depression magazine in the mail the other day. After 13 twang-filled years, the leading publication in the Alt-Country music scene is ceasing production. The simple reason for the stoppage is revenue. With the growing popularity of music information on the web (with blogs like this, and sites like Pitchfork and Stereogum ), and the more specialized genre of No Depression - as opposed to mags like Rolling Stone - the demand for printed music commentary just isn't there anymore. The [...]
Underground rapper DL Incognito, a Juno-nominee who's been in the biz for ten years, just dropped his fourth record, "A Captured Moment in Time," on his own Nine Planets label. Canada, like Britain, has never really mastered the rap game (K-Os is the exception, and Kardinal Offishall isn't bad but isn't great), so it's especially remarkable [...]
We had an unexpected wakeup call around 4:30 this morning. Uncle Tupelo - New Madrid (mp3)
Taking some loose inspiration from the news this morning that a 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook the midwestern US overnight. In the winter of 1811/1812, the New Madrid faultline was hit by three magnitude 8 earthquakes , some of the most powerful quakes in US History. 1 : Uncle Tupelo - New Madrid Buy Anodyne 2 : Beck - Earthquake Weather Buy Guero [...]
After posting my "Black Betty" throwdown a few weeks ago, I got to thinking that a fun reoccurring piece could be posting the history of songs...as best as I can...along with a collection of artists doing their own spin on them. The next obvious song had to be "Moonshiner". The first version of the song I'd ever heard was Uncle Tupelo's, which is a cover of Dylan's Bootleg Series recording of the track. The exact origin of "Moonshiner" is disputed, but it's widely believed the song originated as the Irish folk song "The Moonshiner". In his [...]
I don't think I've had the opportunity to write much about Chicago's Big Buildings since I arrived at wordpress, but on my old site I interviewed them and found them to be genuine, funny guys (I also found Michael Wood to be a bit of a wiseass). The last time I talked with them, [...]
bag of songs
An Aquarium Drunkard
Captain's Dead
Berkeley Place
This Mornin' I Am Born Again
Rollo & Grady
The Adios Lounge
Visions and Revisions
Nine Bullets
the Weekender ::: New music from Catcall // the National // Summer Camp
KNIFE PARTY – RAGE VALLEY EP
The Inner Flame: A Tribute To Rainer Ptacek
Listen: Bobby Womack, Lana Del Rey & Damon Albarn – Dayglo Reflection
