Song · Wilco
“Casino Queen” by Wilco
From the album A.M. (1995)
“Casino Queen” by Wilco appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2026. It was first released in 1995 on the album A.M.. Its best result is #461 on the KXT 917 Song Countdown. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #5,096 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Jeff Tweedy wrote "Casino Queen" for A.M., the debut album Wilco released on Sire and Reprise in March 1995, only months after Uncle Tupelo broke up. He sings lead and plays acoustic guitar, with John Stirratt on bass, Ken Coomer on drums and Max Johnston on fiddle, and Brian Henneman of the Bottle Rockets sits in on guitar and joins the backing-vocal gang with Coomer, Johnston, Stirratt and Daniel Corrigan. Richard Dodd mixed.
A.M. was the last Wilco album cut in pure alt-country style, and it arrived with a question hanging over it: would it beat the first record from Son Volt, Jay Farrar's new band? The reviews were lukewarm, sales were slow, and the band later wrote it off as a failure next to Son Volt's Trace.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 711 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s | 900 |
| 2023 | 842 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2026 | 461 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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