Anodyne

by Uncle Tupelo

Anodyne cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 October 1993
  • Label: Sire
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:23
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Doug Sahm, Jay Farrar, Max Johnston, Ken Coomer, Lloyd Maines, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The final album before Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy famously split, 'Anodyne' is widely regarded as a definitive pillar of the 90s alt-country movement. The band strips back their earlier punk influence for deeply pastoral, acoustic Americana, offering melancholic and bittersweet reflections on a dissolving partnership.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, earnest, melodic, storytelling, plainspoken

Tracklist

  1. Slate (3:24)
  2. Acuff-Rose (2:35)
  3. The Long Cut (3:20)
  4. Give Back the Key to My Heart (3:26)
  5. Chickamauga (3:42)
  6. New Madrid (3:31)
  7. Anodyne (4:50)
  8. We've Been Had (3:26)
  9. Fifteen Keys (3:25)
  10. High Water (4:14)
  11. No Sense in Lovin' (3:46)
  12. Steal the Crumbs (3:38)

Credits

  • Uncle Tupelo - primary artist
  • Dave Birke - art direction, design
  • Jeff Tweedy - bass, guitar, vocals, written-by
  • John Stirratt - bass, guitar
  • Monterey Peninsula Artists - booking
  • Ken Coomer - drums
  • Max Johnston - fiddle, lap steel guitar, banjo, dobro
  • Jay Farrar - guitar, vocals, written-by, mandolin
  • Tony Margherita - management
  • Scott Hull - mastered by
  • Lloyd Maines - pedal steel guitar
  • Daniel Corrigan - photography by
  • Brian Paulson - producer, engineer, mixed by
  • Doug Sahm - vocals, guitar, written-by

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