Alt-Country Reminiscing

Back when I was in too deep in the alt-Country scene, we witnessed a young cocky prick Ryan Adams with Whiskeytown, an amazingly good band that unfortunately was always labeled as an Uncle Tupelo wannabe band, kind of like Slobberbone. Here's a live cut of them doing one of their earliest songs on Austin City Limits:



Compare this with Uncle Tupelo of a similar vintage:



Every time I saw Uncle Tupelo or Son Volt, whenever Jay Farrar would put that maroon Angus Young Gibson SG over his neck, you'd know Chickamauga was coming up, and, in Son Volt's case, the lead guitar could just step on back.

I saw that Wilco was up for a grammy this year. Proof positive that Jeff was Paul all along...as if there was any doubt.

Of course Gram Parsons started the whole thing. Precious little Gram of quality to be found on YouTube.