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“I’m working on a thing called postrebellion and postopinion. People are good right now at exhibiting their professed radicalizations. That seems like a new kind of virtuosity that I’m not interested in. There seems to be an imprimatur of being contemporary if you go to some kind of extreme. That’s a stuck place and I want to move away from that.”
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The iTunes Library Project Uncle Tupelo: “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?”from  Anodyne The thing most people know about Uncle Tupelo is that it was the stepping stone for Jeff Tweedy from nothingness to Wilco, a stepping stone that was apex— in good and bad ways— for a talented songwriter in Jay Farrar. Listening to Anodyne, though, you don’t really hear any of that. The only Wilco you can hear in the band is Tweedy’s cigarette stained strain, which is higher both in pitch and in effort due to his comparative youth. And the only apex you hear is the sound of a good young band unsure of whether they were country or rock or folk or whatever and stumbled onto something unique because of it. “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?” is an old Waylon Jennings tune bemoaning the state of country music in the years since the death of country legend Hank Williams, Sr., which makes it an appropriate track for Uncle Tupelo, even if its only included on the 2003 reissue of Anodyne. Even if they weren’t country in the strictest sense, they had a love for the genre that was only matched by their criticism of it. In taking on the classic Jennings track, they do it the only way they know how, bashing through it with an energy and gusto they felt country lacked, and had to delve into a new genre to find.
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