Album · Uncle Tupelo
No Depression by Uncle Tupelo
No Depression is an album by Uncle Tupelo, released in 1990. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Whiskey Bottle”, on 2 lists with a best position of #153.
No Depression, Uncle Tupelo's first album, came out in June 1990, and it more or less named a genre. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy and Mike Heidorn were a trio out of Belleville, Illinois, whose demo tape, Not Forever, Just for Now, drew a good notice from the College Media Journal in 1989 and got them signed. Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie produced the album at Fort Apache Studios on a $3,500 budget, and it sounds gloriously cheap in all the right ways.
It's a head-on collision between the hardcore punk of the Minutemen and the country harmonies of the Carter Family and Hank Williams, loud and ragged, with songs rooted in Middle America and the working people of Belleville. It moved more than 15,000 copies inside a year, big for an indie, lent its name to a roots music magazine and became shorthand for alternative country itself. After the band won back the rights in court, a remastered edition with six bonus tracks followed on Legacy in 2003.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from No Depression on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whiskey Bottle | 2 | #153 | – | 2023–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.