No Depression (album)
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| Studio album by Uncle Tupelo | ||||
| Released | June 21, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | January 21–31, 1990 at Fort Apache South, Boston, MA | |||
| Genre | Alternative country, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 41:41 | |||
| Label | Rockville | |||
| Producer | Sean Slade, Paul Q. Kolderie | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau |  |
| CMJ | favorable |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 |
| Q | |
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| The San Diego Union-Tribune |  |
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No Depression is the first studio album by alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, released in June 1990. After its formation in the late 1980s, Uncle Tupelo recorded the Not Forever, Just for Now demo tape, which received a positive review by the College Media Journal in 1989. The review led to the band's signing with what would become Rockville Records later that year. The album was recorded with producers Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie at Fort Apache Studios, on a budget of US$3,500.
No Depression was critically acclaimed and sold well for an independent release. Selling over 15,000 copies within a year of its release, the album's success inspired the roots music magazine No Depression. The record is considered one of the most important alternative country albums, and its title is often used as a synonym for the alternative country genre after being popularized by No Depression magazine. After regaining the rights to the album through a lawsuit, Uncle Tupelo released a remastered version in 2003 through Legacy Records, expanded to include six bonus tracks.
Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy and Mike Heidorn began their musical careers in the 1980s playing in a garage band, The Plebes. After a few gigs, creative differences between the members led to the development of a punk rock sound for the band. As punk rock was unpopular in the St. Louis region, the band changed their style to blues-rock and renamed themselves Uncle Tupelo. At this point, they stopped performing covers and began to write their own songs.
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