Uncle Tupelo

Uncle Tupelo's first major label release also happened to be their last album. It's fitting in that they seemed to have reached their apex here, having created a work that meshes folk, country and rock in a way that's almost revelatory in its directness. The Doug Sahm-assisted "Give Back The Key To My Heart" is a highlight.

Before Uncle Tupelo's No Depression sneaked out of Belleville, Ill., in 1990, the respective
sounds of Sonic Youth and Lynyrd Skynyrd probably never occupied a common thought,
let alone the same song. Yet the first track on that album obliterated any boundaries – real
or imagined – that may have existed between those two bands. The pickin' was pure
Second Helping, the dissonance straight Sister. On Anodyne, Uncle Tupelo's fou... More >