Even Wilco, featuring the other half of Uncle Tupelo, trod a countrified path for an album or album and a half.Īlso part of that time was the absence of grunge. Uncle Tupelo had been one of those bands, Jayhawks was another (though the boys from the Twin Cities had actually been kicking around for some time by then) there were the Bottle Rockets, artists such as Todd Snider and a host of groups that were about to come out of the woodwork on Chicago’s Bloodshot label. Trace is an album that is nearly impossible to separate from the time in which it emerged: There were scores of jangly, country-influenced rock acts who were keen to mix up their Buck Owens with their Dead Kennedys a generation of musicians who had grown up listening to Violent Femmes and Flying Burrito Brothers and all that other stuff and were ready to prove that you could still rock in America even with a little country mud on your shoes. This was an album that would have stood and still stands an epically good record from a band with any track record or no track record at all. But the history shared by the members or the legacy that helped birthed this new band hardly mattered. Tupelo drummer Mike Heidorn and Tupelo frontman Jay Farrar had teamed up earlier in ’95 with Jim and Dave Boquist, a powerful guitar and bass two-fer from Minneapolis. Trace was born in September 1995, a little more than a year after the dissolution of the almighty Uncle Tupelo.
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