Uncle Tupelo - Willin - St Louis, MO 4/30/1994

[Sjack90]

i really like this group and appreciate that they tried--but this song should be left to little feat.

[jczother]

@Sjack90 The passion of Jay, great tribute to Lowell. I love it!

[FENDIN10]

Ok jczother, all I meant was that if NY did this with crazy horse it would probably sound like this and i'm not alone in thinking so.

[jczother]

Cool, I'm in st louis 39 so I seen em many times. I think Jay was fed up with them going nowhere, he made son volt and came out with trace a few months after. jeff's made wilco made there 1st fast because they didn't know they were breaking up, it was basicly U.T. without jay. Wilco's been through several members and are probably the most talented band now and jay still does his own thing here in st. louis. son volt and wilco both have new lp's out. no one really knows, I read jeffs book.

[lebtu]

I am a BIG Little Feat fan!! And now I am a big Uncle Tupelo fan!! Never heard of them until just now. Why did they break up?

[Schnepf2]

@lebtu Classic scenario of two frontmen who ended up hating each others guts, lebtu. It all came down to those two not standing each other though. It's going on 20 years now and they still never play together. You just stumbled on a nice bounty of rich music, though. Tupelo only made four albums (all great IMHO), but there's another dozen or so between Wilco and Son Volt.

[81Bear]

Wow, 4/30. Jeff is walking around, looking at the band thinking "hmmmm, in a couple of weeks this will be mine." And Jay is thinking "I'm so out of here."

[jczother]

@81Bear It took them by surprise man, Jeff and the rest of the band were taken off guard, Jay was the only one who knew and had his band in the wings. They we're like lennon/mccartney, just to much damn talent for one band, look at the difference in there music today... I love em both. From St. Louis!!!

[SBomb121]

@jczother Nah--Jay had already told them he was leaving, and they did this last group of shows as a favor to their manager.

[GreensongOakheart]

Thanks for posting all Uncle Tupelo is welcome at my house

[scottay69]

love Jay

[yardwork2008]

i dont think there is any band who "covers" other bands as well as uncle; they always manage to put their own spin on it which makes it their own tho;

jmparrish0--do you have any videos from any of the shows they did at ciceros?; i think i remeber some covers of ccr and rolling stones, especially dead flowers was a killer cover; thanks

[pattyjoetweeter]

i concur with fendin10. this is the unofficial "crazy horse" version of this tune. definitive.

[jmparrish0]

indeed. Maybe I'll put up the video of them covering 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere'

[yardwork2008]

pls do;

[spankingcharlene]

Beautiful

I remember getting a postcard back in 94 from Uncle Tupelo saying that they broke up. Sad

[FENDIN10]

Neil Young would do it like this. I've seen many versions on here, but this is lovely,

nice and loose!

[jczother]

@FENDIN10 Neil Young, what does he have to do with Lowell George? They did cover a couple neil songs live and on jay farrars stone, steele and bright lights he does like a hurricane, but Neil was nowhere around little feat or U.T.