With the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, Farrar formed Son Volt, which has put out critically successful Americana albums from 1995 through its most recent record, American Central Dust, in 2009. The band ...

“You could hear how these bands were influencing them,” says Byrne, who accompanied the band on a few short tours in the late ’80s. “But they really wanted to mix all those sounds with a base of ...

It’s not every album that’s cool enough to inspire an entire genre. But that’s the special status enjoyed by “No Depression,” the 1990 debut by the seminal band Uncle Tupelo. The album’s title became ...

It took about 30 days and $18,000 to radically alter modern music. That’s what Uncle Tupelo spent between 1990 and ’92, when the group recorded three of the most influential albums in recent memory, ...

It may not be entirely accurate to state Uncle Tupelo invented alternative country music, but it is very close to the truth to say that by incorporating influences as disparate as The Stooges and the ...

In the months that followed Jay Farrar’s decision to leave Uncle Tupelo, the St. Louis band hailed as one of the most promising groups on the alternative country/roots rock scene, the guitarist ...

Uncle Tupelo found themselves edging off into a radio-ready glossiness on Still Feel Gone, and that clearly didn't sit well. Perhaps in keeping, the album – which arrived on Sept. 17, 1991 – ended up ...

When Son Volt goes onstage tonight at the Continental Club (we’ve heard around 11 p.m.), there’s an outside chance the band might pull out Doug Sahm’s “Give Back the Key to My Heart” – we are in Texas ...

Those 10 demos, including this rough-edged version of “I Got Drunk,” are included on No Depression: Legacy Edition, a two-disc compilation that builds on Uncle Tupelo‘s 1990 debut. In addition to the ...

It doesn't seem possible that Uncle Tupelo has been gone for 10 years. Consider "Train," from the group's first album, 1990's No Depression. At 2:15am, Jeff Tweedy's aimless young hero is parked at a ...

This story appears in our January/February Legends Issue. Belleville, Illinois, did not weather the 1980s particularly well. Sprawled just thirty minutes due east of St. Louis, the factory town had ...

The long out-of-print indie collection of Uncle Tupelo albums will finally be released on a major label, though it won’t be Warner Music, the company with which the band’s members had an extended ...