This is a fascinating read:
I bought this CD in a Bay Area record store around Christmas of ’93 (it came out in October) and was absolutely obsessed with it for a good year – maybe longer. I’d just moved to Seattle and grunge was all the rage, but I found the country-tinged songs on this CD (like the title track, High Water and We’ve Been Had) every bit as compelling as the all-out rockers (like The Long Cut and Chickamauga).
Suffice to say, I wouldn’t be writing & playing the Mack Hooligan stuff I am today if it hadn’t been for Uncle Tupelo (and a bit later, Blue Mountain and Whiskeytown). They sure as hell beat the hell out of all that crap by that Eagles I had to listen to while growing up & going to college in Arizona and southern Cal! I’ll still take Belleville, Illinois, Oxford, Mississippi, and Apex, North Carolina over f*cking “Hotel California” any day.
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