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Uncle Tupelo – No Depression – Cassette
No Depression is the debut studio album by the American alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, released in 1990. Uncle Tupelo is often credited with helping to popularize the alternative country and Americana genres.
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. 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.
The album No Depression is considered a seminal work in the alt-country movement. It combines elements of country, folk, and rock, with lyrics that often reflect themes of longing, heartache, and the struggles of everyday life.
Some of the notable tracks on the album include “Graveyard Shift,” “Whiskey Bottle,” and “Factory Belt.” These songs showcase the band’s ability to blend traditional American music styles with a modern and sometimes edgy sensibility.
Like the Replacements, 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”).
The title track, No Depression, became an anthem for the alternative country movement and gave its name to the influential music magazine No Depression, which covered roots music and its various subgenres.
While Uncle Tupelo disbanded in the mid-1990s, No Depression remains a significant album in their discography and in the history of alternative country music. It helped pave the way for the genre’s continued growth and popularity.
Rockville Records
Brand new, never played and still in the factory plastic
Original 1990 Pressing, Not A Re-Issue
Track Listing
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
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