As a fan of Wilco, I should have previously known the information I'm about to disclose. But sadly to say, I was unaware.
Prior to starting Wilco, Jeff Tweedy was a member of Uncle Tupelo and before this even, a member of a band known as The Primitives. Recently I read up on The Primitives and learned that originally, the band was highly influenced by punk rock bands such as The Ramones and The Sex Pistols. However, since the music scenes of St. Louis and Belleville were not accepting of such sound, the band turned to country music and it was only then that the members began to listen to country music for pleasure, which explains Wilco's sound.
Also, UT was one of the first, if not the first, to be credited with the genre 'alternative country' only to be associated later with artists such as Gram Parsons who I have recently become acquainted with thanks to my friend Brandon.
However in an interview, the band states:
I think I'm going to make a trip over to Papa Jazz to sift through the record bins to try to snag a copy of Uncle Tupelo.
Jeff Tweedy said in an interview with the St. Louis Dispatch:
http://www.myspace.com/uncletupelo
Side note: The webpage above is an unofficial site, but provides a few songs.
Prior to starting Wilco, Jeff Tweedy was a member of Uncle Tupelo and before this even, a member of a band known as The Primitives. Recently I read up on The Primitives and learned that originally, the band was highly influenced by punk rock bands such as The Ramones and The Sex Pistols. However, since the music scenes of St. Louis and Belleville were not accepting of such sound, the band turned to country music and it was only then that the members began to listen to country music for pleasure, which explains Wilco's sound.
Also, UT was one of the first, if not the first, to be credited with the genre 'alternative country' only to be associated later with artists such as Gram Parsons who I have recently become acquainted with thanks to my friend Brandon.
However in an interview, the band states:
It's strange to hear Uncle Tupelo mentioned because what we were doing was in such a long line of musical history. People are wrong in starting with us and saying we started anything because we were just picking up the ball, starting with Woody Guthrie and on to the early '60s and the Flying Burrito Brothers that we were influenced by. We didn't start a genre. We contributed to a long line of fairly good music. That's the way we looked at it at the time—doing what was right for the song.
I think I'm going to make a trip over to Papa Jazz to sift through the record bins to try to snag a copy of Uncle Tupelo.
Jeff Tweedy said in an interview with the St. Louis Dispatch:
We probably have more influences than we know what to do with. We have two main styles that have been influences. For instance, we like Black Flag as much as early Bob Dylan and Dinosaur Jr. as much as Hank Williams … To us, hard-core punk is also folk music. We draw a close parallel between the two. We'll play both in the same set if we get a chance. We don't have any biases as far as music is concerned.
http://www.myspace.com/uncletupelo
Side note: The webpage above is an unofficial site, but provides a few songs.
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