More Tupelo: This Note’s For You

Posted by Lance Davis - April 17, 2012 - Uncle Tupelo

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This is for my buddy, Lex, who bemoaned the lack of Blue Note videos in my recent video history of Uncle Tupelo. Fair enough. The Blue Note is a bar in Columbia, Missouri, the “three hour away town” of “Whiskey Bottle” fame, and according to Factory Belt, UT played there twelve times between 1988-94. […]

There Was a Time: The History of Uncle Tupelo

Posted by Lance Davis - April 1, 2012 - Brian Henneman, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, Max Johnston, Mike Heidorn, Uncle Tupelo

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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: One man’s lazy embedding of YouTube videos is another man’s history of Uncle Tupelo. Consider it a documentary, minus all the boring interviews, montages, and the Ken Burns move where a voice intones dramatically as a camera slowly pans across a black and […]

Remembering March 16-20, 1992

Posted by Lance Davis - March 21, 2012 - Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Peter Buck, Uncle Tupelo

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“Halfway through the week, I thought, ‘Gee, this is like working on a classic Rolling Stones album. This is going to be a great record and it’s going to be around for a long time.’ I felt very responsible too. It was important to get everything right. Because you only get to make a record […]

War at 33 1/3: 1990 Reconsidered

Posted by Lance Davis - January 21, 2011 - 1990, Chico, Ice Cube, Mark Arm, Public Enemy, Uncle Tupelo

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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I can’t sum up 1990 in a single post without being hopelessly self-indulgent. I’d much rather spread my self-indulgence over the course of a few shorter posts because I’m a purist. So, today I’m concentrating on the politics of 1990 as viewed through […]

The Great(est) American Rock ‘n’ Roll Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Posted by Lance Davis - September 11, 2010 - Booker T and the MGs, CCR, Creedence, Doug Clifford, John Fogerty, Stu Cook, Tom Fogerty, Uncle Tupelo

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How fundamentally badass is Creedence Clearwater Revival? They appeal to everybody over the age of embryo and younger than 102. Men and women. Whites, blacks, and all manner of ethnicity in between. Fancypants intellectuals and working class mulletheads. They’re beloved for heavy rock songs with big, fat guitar tones, twangy, backporch country, and high, […]