“All Shook Down” by The Replacements

The title track to All Shook Down, the seventh and last Replacements album, which Sire put out in September 1990, is Paul Westerberg's song start to finish, and he co-produced it with Scott Litt, who also engineered and mixed. That lone byline fits the record's backstory: All Shook Down was first meant to be Westerberg's solo debut, until his management talked him into making it a Replacements album before a note was cut.

So the band became something of a revolving door. Session players and journeymen fill out the record alongside the other three Replacements; Westerberg counted four drummers on it but said no outside guitarists were brought in, and Tommy Stinson, who came aboard about a week in, most likely handled the bulk of the bass. Nobody kept clear records of who played what, which suits a farewell this frayed.

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