1980s High School Yearbook w UNCLE TUPELO seniors JEFF TWEEDY & JAY FARRAR ++++

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1980's High School annual
with great photographs and text showing the students and faculty, activities and sports, candids and graphics, pictures of school and surrounding. And including graduating seniors and future recording artists and leaders of Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Son Volt bands Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar
.
Great pictures and period design.
Uncle Tupelo
was formed by members Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar after they played in
The Primitives, and recorded three albums for Rockville Records, before signing with
Sire
and expanding to a five-piece. Shortly after the release of the band's major label debut album Anodyne
, Farrar left and formed Son Volt. Uncle, while Jeff Tweedy and
the remaining members continued as Wilco
.
Uncle Tupelo is renowned for its impact on the alternative country music scene.
The group's first album,
No Depression
, became a byword for the genre and was widely influential. Uncle Tupelo's sound was unlike popular country music of the time, drawing inspiration from styles as diverse as the hardcore punk of The Minutemen
and the country instrumentation and harmony of the Hank Williams
. Farrar and Tweedy's lyrics frequently referred to Middle America and the working class
.
Wilco garnered media attention for their fourth album,
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
(2001).
Wilco won two Grammy Awards
for their fifth studio album, 2004's
A Ghost Is Born
.
Wilco released their twelfth studio album,
Cruel Country
, in May 2022. Son Volt
is considered a staple of the alternative country
rock movement of the 1990s, and is also rooted in folk rock
and Americana.
"Windfall" from the celebrated album
Trace
became very popular in the alt-country scene, while the band released "Drown" as a single which charted #10 on the mainstream rock charts.
Excellent condition
hardback with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces, Clean and Solid.
Great rarity giving a great look at the early life and times of two alt-rock and roll poets.
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