“Whiskey Bottle” by Uncle Tupelo

"Whiskey Bottle" is on No Depression, the debut album Uncle Tupelo released in June 1990, and it's credited to Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy and Mike Heidorn. Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie produced and engineered it at Fort Apache Studios, where the whole album was cut for just $3,500, and Rich Gilbert adds pedal steel guitar.

The deal came off a demo tape, Not Forever, Just for Now, whose warm review in the College Media Journal in 1989 led the band to the label that became Rockville Records. No Depression went on to sell more than 15,000 copies in its first year, strong going for an indie, and it lent its name to a roots music magazine and, through it, to the whole alternative country movement.

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