Uncle Tupelo crawled out of the factory town of Belleville, Illinois, in 1987 with what turned out to be one of the most durable ideas of the modern-rock era: using loud, fervent guitars to support the churchgoing earnestness of hillbilly songs. By the time the band dissolved, four studio albums lat...
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Uncle Tupelo started out as a punk band that didn't discriminate against acoustic instruments. The Belle-ville, IL, band was founded by boyhood friends Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy (who would later go on to greater fame in Son Volt and Wilco, respectively). From the start, they blended rock dynamics with string-band textures, scorching electric guitars with whining pedal steels, and Appalachian-st...
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